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of such reports. During my ensuing interrogation by two
Army Counter-Intelligence Corps members at Fort Monroe, I
became fully aware that UFO•s, or flying saucers, were
being treated with grave respect by our military intelligence
experts; so, I decided to reveal their official, behi nd-the­
scenes attitude to the public, doing so in a lengthy report
issued in 1960. The report 1 had taken five months to make
the rounds of the review-clearance mill, but.J s f inally
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cleared for publication in February 1960.
Despite a subsequent admonition from the Civilian
Personnel Officer at Fort Monroe to give up my campaign of
seeking the truth about UFO secrecy, I have continued to
amass evidence against the censors. And the censors still~
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persist in making themselves ,laiown; to me. It is certainly
a vicious cycle of verbal pushing and pulling, with the
victor of the conflict being not really mys.elf or the
censors but you readers, who represent the general public.
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The next episode concerna a draft newspaper "letter
to the editor" that I wrote in the spring of 1959, and which
I duly submitted to USCONARC for review and clearance.
USCONARC declined to clear the manuscript, asserting, among
other things, the fol1owing nonconcurrencea:
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