"The Roswell Incident has emerged as a myth of such power and allure that it is no longer in anybody's best interests to seek - or admit - the truth. The town of Roswell profits from increased tourism. The supposed Roswell `witnesses' get their two hours of fame, and immortality in the history books. The Roswell `investigators' garner the adulation of their peers (assuming they have any), and the royalties from book and movie deals. The UFO `organizations' enjoy a new respectability they otherwise haven't been able to achieve after nearly fifty years of worthless `research'... Is it any wonder the truth has been lost in this hodgepodge of vested interests?"
-UFO researcher ROBERT TODD, writing in the Dec. 8th, 1995 issue of "The KowPflop Quarterly". (See discussion below.)

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ANOTHER KEY ROSWELL WITNESS BITES THE DUST:

Researcher Robert Todd, writing in the most recent issue of "The KowPflop Quarterly" (formerly called "The Cowflop Quarterly") gives us four pages of detailed information about Jesse Marcel, much of it taken directly from Marcel's nearly 200-page military personnel file. The title of Todd's article is "Major Jesse Marcel: Folk Hero or Mythomaniac?" Roswell fans will recall that Marcel was the Intelligence officer at Roswell Army Air Field at the time of the July, 1947 Roswell Incident, and is therefore a key figure in the legend.

The file shows that Marcel exaggerated or lied about several important aspects of his career, which gives us Just Cause to be suspicious of the accuracy of his description of the Roswell debris. ("Just Cause" is an excellent UFO zine published by Barry Greenwood, and Todd's zine is always mailed out together with it.)

Among the problems: Marcel claimed 3,000 hours of flight time as a pilot before going into the Air Force, but there is no indication in his record that he had any. Later he flew on many combat missions in World War II, as an Intelligence officer, but never as a pilot.

Marcel claimed he was awarded five Air Medals for shooting down five enemy planes in combat. Actually he received two Air Medals, but only for having flown a sufficient number of hours on combat missions - as an Intelligence officer, never as a pilot or gunner.

Although Roswell proponents believe that Marcel's high rank of Lt. Colonel makes him more believable, he was never more than a Major while on active duty. He became a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserve after his retirement.

Marcel claimed to have a B.S. degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and to have attended four other colleges. However, there is no indication that he had any degree, and apparently he had only a total of one year of college anywhere. After leaving active duty in 1950, Marcel returned to the relatively humble status of a self-employed television repairman in Louisiana.

The item we like best is this one: Marcel once claimed to an interviewer that in 1949 he "wrote the very report that President Truman read on the air declaring that Russia had exploded an atomic device". However, it turns out that no such report was ever read on the air by President Truman. Instead, the White House merely issued a written statement about the event! Not surprisingly, Marcel's name does not appear anywhere in the records as having been among the many U.S. scientists and top military men associated with this event.

Some of the above information has been published previously by Bob Pratt, Karl Pflock, Phil Klass and others, though none worked from Marcel's complete military personnel file as Todd did. Todd is much to be commended for the work he has done.

"The KowPflop Quarterly" can be obtained from Robert Todd, 2528 Belmont Ave., Ardmore, Pa. 19003-2617.

NEW "SAUCER SMEAR" THEORY EXPLAINING THE ROSWELL INCIDENT AND OTHER EARLY "UFO CRASHES":

Since the beginning of the Cold War (1946), the U.S. Government has been on a disinformation campaign to convince the Soviet Union that we may have alien technology. Thus the Government started rumors and may even have faked "little men" landings in the late 1940s and early 1950s; and they continue to secretly encourage wild "Area 51" speculation to this very day - even though the Cold War is supposedly over!

The purpose was to make the Russians overestimate our level of technology and over-spend into bankruptcy, which finally worked.

Even though Frank Scully, author of the classic book "Behind the Flying Saucers" (1950) never believed a word of what he wrote about crashed saucers (he was a humorist), and even though his information came from extremely unreliable sources (Silas Newton, etc.), he merely passed on "valid rumors" secretly started by our own Government for the above reasons. He was thus what the CIA would call a "useful idiot", as are the current UFO researchers who endorse the MJ-12 documents. (You know who you are!)

This theory, unlike some of our previous theories, does not attempt to explain all of ufology, but only the Cold War aspect. Comments are welcome.

PERILS OF THE INTERNET:

 We know almost nothing about the InterNet, being, as they say, computer illiterate. However, when some friends volunteered to put Smear "on-line" (?), we went along with it, only to learn that there are complex legal perils involved. Smear is and always has been deliberately uncopyrighted, as we want The Word to get around. But what about material in Smear such as poetry, to which the author may want to retain a copyright??? What about the fact that people who can read Smear for free on the Internet may not be inclined to shell out actual money to become non-subscribers!

We know that the Internet is the Wave of the (shudder!) Future, and we do want to Get With It. Here we again print our access code, or whatever the hell it is. All comments on this subject from our readers will be most appreciated.

For World Wide Web users, the address is

http://www.mcs.com/~kvg/smear.htm

TIDBITS OF TRASH:

SEX & SAUCERS IN FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA and OTHER NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST:

  • We have in our hands a 350-page self-published tome called "The Excyles: The True Experiences of a Woman Who is Loved by Extraterrestrials and was Romanced by a U.S. Government Intelligence Agent". The author is Mia Adams, but Ms. Adams has given us permission to reveal her real name which is Shiela Franklin, a Smear non-subscriber from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We have met her a couple of times in recent months, and offhand she seems like a pleasant, intelligent, and rational woman perhaps 50 years old. Her autobiographical book reveals, however, that she is not just the average woman on the street!

    Ms. Franklin lives in a secure building of very comfortable condominiums. At one point recently the residents were being greatly annoyed by a "condomaniac" who was one of the residents and also happened to be a retired FBI agent. So, Ms. Franklin called the real local FBI office about this, and over a period of time she became very friendly with one of the agents there, whom she calls Jordan Perez - presumably not his real name.

    At first Jordan does not seem to share her interest in UFOs and such, but they gradually establish a close friendship, and eventually they begin a sexual relationship (bottom of Page 89). Later, though he is apparently an ordinary FBI agent with no conceivable "need to know", Jordan is invited to go on a VIP tour of Nellis AFB in New Mexico and other "sensitive" areas in that state; and when he gets back, he breaks off the relationship, but gives Ms Franklin a written statement of what he thinks he has learned regarding UFOs while out there.

    Jordan's statement occupies 12 full pages of the book - written in capitals and with strange misspellings that Ms. Franklin does not understand the need for (nor do we). There is the usual (to ufologists) stuff about underground bases, genetic tampering with the human race by "greys", and all the other things that we all want to believe go on underground in New Mexico. But the most startling of all is the fact that Jordan has learned that Ms. Franklin is in reality his mother, and therefore he feels his relationship with her is incestuous, and should be broken off. Says he:

    "...My source advised me that a donor egg was obtained from another woman and her genetic material erased from the egg. My mother's genetic material was then substituted and the egg fertilized by my father's sperm. I must therefore conclude that at least my mother was also an abductee."
    Whether the above makes sense medically, we do not know; but these aliens can do anything!

    There is a lot more to the book than this, and in spite of our having picked this one part to talk about, it is definitely not a sex book (unfortunately!). Ms. Franklin endures all sorts of phone surveillance, at least one possible break-in to her apartment, and many other persecutions. Recently someone broke into her car and wrote "GARBAGE" on her book box!

    However, she does not seem to let it get to her, and seems to take everything that happens to her in a philosophical "maybe it's true and maybe it isn't" frame of mind. That's probably the exact way that we should take this book. It can be obtained for $18.95 by writing to: Excelta Publishing Inc., P.O. Box 4530, Fort Lauderdale, Fl. 33338...

  • Also just out is "Phoenix in the Labyrinth". by the semi-mysterious C.B. Scott Jones, PhD, President of the Human Potential Foundation (P.0.Box 6, Falls Church, Va. 22040). This is a 180-page soft-cover compilation of six lectures given by Jones from 1988 to 1994 at various UFO-oriented conventions...

  • Finally, we have 340 pages of "Popular Alienation: A Steamshovel Press Reader", edited by Kenn Thomas. This is an anthology of nine issues of the well-known Conspiracy Journal, "Steamshovel Press", which touches on UF0s, assassinations, and the usual round of political espionage & intrigue. Contributors include Tim Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Allen Ginsberg, Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Sean Morton, Stanton Friedman, and John Keel. Good reading! Available from IllumiNet Press, P.O. Box 2808, Lilburn, Ga. 30226

    MISSIVES FROM THE MASSES: