- Of course, the title of the show was `Peter Jennings
Reporting' - if only that were so. This is the story of how, once again,
the corrupt Big Media has defrauded the American people, from one who had
a front row seat to the spectacle.
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- In the summer of 2004, as founder and director of The
Disclosure Project (www.DisclosureProject.org) I was approached by Jennings
Productions producer Jordan Kronick. He explained how ABC News was going
to make history by doing a serious expose of the UFO matter - for the first
time on network news.
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- Initially skeptical - we have seen and heard this song
and dance before - I agreed to meet with Kronick at our offices in Washington
DC. Over the course of several hours, we discussed the subject and how
The Disclosure Project had identified several hundred top secret military
and government witnesses to UFO events and projects.
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- Kronick expressed great interest and repeatedly stated
that this is exactly what Jennings, chief producer Mark Obenhaus and he
were looking for. I offered to provide, pro bono, ALL Disclosure Project
digital videotape interviews and full access to ALL Disclosure Project
witnesses willing to cooperate with ABC News - including those witnesses
not yet taped by us.
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- The reader at this point needs to know that these are
not fuzzy, blacked-out deep throats anonymously telling stories of the
night. These are hundreds of military, government and corporate insiders
who have been identified by us over the past 14 years. They range from
Generals, to Astronauts, to senior FAA officials who were privy to events,
projects and cover-ups involving UFOs. Additionally, we have thousands
of pages of uncontested official government smoking gun documents and physical
evidence, photos, videos, landing trace events and other unambiguous proof.
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- The ABC News production team claimed to want exactly
this type evidence - and especially the high-level government and military
insider whistle-blowers who could credibly blow the lid off of decades
of secrecy.
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- As a two-hour news special, ABC claimed that they could,
at long last, give the subject the focus and rigor needed to achieve this
objective.
- But as discussions continued, it became more and more
clear that Obenhaus and Jennings really wanted to do a human interest story
- including anecdotal civilian witnesses, man-in-the-street interviews
and the general silly season and carnival atmosphere surrounding most things
ufological.
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- We agreed to cooperate with the filming of a CSETI (Center
for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) research expedition to
Mt. Shasta in August of 2004, at which time we were able to have discussions
with Obenhaus, the senior producer in charge of the project.
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- We were incredulous as Obenhaus revealed to us that he
was sure the matter was not really being kept secret but had just `fallen
through the cracks' due to lack of follow through, laziness and so forth
on the part of the government! It was clear he had not studied the data
or evidence given to him, and had his mind made up to do a `light', human
interest piece and not a real expose or research project.
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- This was later confirmed when, as summer turned to fall,
the long promised serious research and interviews they claimed they wanted
to do with these top-secret government witnesses were never followed up.
I spoke a few more times to Kronick, who promised a sit down interview
and follow- up with these high-ranking and conclusive witnesses. They never
did.
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- Instead, the final ABC News show was weaker in evidence
than most tabloid cable channel pieces on the UFO subject - with the bulk
of the `documentary' being interviews with UFO personalities, debunkers
and the carnival atmosphere of UFO hotspots like Roswell.
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- They fraudulently appeared to be ` balanced' by having
both skeptics and `believers' - with the clear implication that the skeptics
were `real scientists' and the `believers' were misguided flakes. Using
the ruse of media `objectivity', ABC News would asymmetrically show, say,
a Harvard scientist skeptic juxtaposed against an civilian who thought
he had been sexually assaulted by aliens!
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- The few, very brief interviews with pilots and military
people were overwhelmed by the spurious, carnival-like pseudo-ethnography
of the UFO subculture mixed in with long segments of scientists pooh- poohing
the entire matter.
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- While appearing objective and `balanced' to the general
viewer, the project was, rather, a disinformation piece, carefully crafted
to give the mere appearance of objectivity.
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- Otherwise, why spend so much air time interviewing UFO
personalities, media figures and the like - while completely leaving out
ALL high-ranking military, government and scientific witnesses and evidence
given directly by us to them?
- In light of the range and scope of material that we personally
gave them, it is incomprehensible why ALL of it would be omitted - unless
it was their intent from the beginning to do a disinformation and cover-up
piece.
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- Why else would Peter Jennings state that the US Government
has been out of the UFO matter since 1969, when Project Blue Book was closed,
even though he and his team were directly given by us, official US government
documents, senior government whistle-blower testimony and physical evidence
- including radar tapes - to the contrary? Why would Jennings feature uninformed
scientists rhetorically asking `where's the physical evidence' when abundant
physical evidence is available and was offered to him?
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- Why indeed. We have received a CIA document from 1991
that clearly states that the CIA has contacts in the big media to change,
kill or spin stories. From this document, dated 20 December 1991, and released
1 April 1992, to the Director of Central Intelligence from the Task Force
on Greater CIA Openness, on page 6:
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- "PAO [the Public Affairs Office] now has relationships
with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and
television network in the nation. This has helped us turn some intelligence
failure stories into intelligence success storiesIn many instances, we
have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold or even scrap stories"
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- And from a CIA document regarding the psychological warfare
implications of UFOs, we find a reference to Disney Studios, now the parent
company of ABC, being used as a source for doing cartoon-like portrayals
of the subject for psychological warfare purposes. Can we be surprised
ABC News has, again, defrauded the American people - only pretending to
do news and real investigative reporting when in reality they are purveying
disinformation to an accepting public?
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- Obenhaus, without any research or foundation in fact,
went so far as to personally assert to me that the hybrid government -
corporate complex is not keeping new energy, propulsion and related technologies
hidden from the public! His prejudice on the matter was profound and unwavering:
forget the facts, my mind is made up.
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- It is hard to reconcile ABC News' claims to doing a serious
expose and investigative report when the senior producer of the project,
without any investigation or research, espouses such closed-minded conclusions
at the outset.
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- Those who know me, know that I like to stay positive,
present the affirmative facts and present the promise of an advanced, sustainable
civilization on earth benefiting from the knowledge of these new technologies.
But it is time for the American people to wake up to the fact that the
big media and their corporate masters are the central problem blocking
the truth from coming out. As a former board member of Time Warner told
me, the big media has become scribes taking dictation from the right hand
of the king - and the fourth estate is essentially dead.
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- A CALL TO ACTION
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- The American people must demand that ABC News correct
its fraudulent assertions - and do a real investigative report on the serious
evidence, government documents and courageous military whistle- blower
testimony that The Disclosure Project and others have identified. The reader
may obtain much of this evidence from www.DisclousreProject.org.
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- Write Peter Jennings at ABC News at: support@ABCNews.go.com
and demand an honest investigative report.
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- Additionally, please contact the FCC and register your
complaint regarding the transparent fraud perpetrated by ABC News on the
American public.
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- Remember: ABC News, as a broadcast network, is given
by the FCC access to the public airwaves. In exchange, we have the right
to hold ABC News, as well as the other networks, to fairness, accuracy
and honesty -and certainly to avoid blatant fraud and corruption. This
was not the ABC entertainment division that perpetrated this fraudulent
report on the American people, but its news division. That they would sanitize
such an important two hour report of nearly all credible evidence and government
insider witnesses requires that we demand a hearing on the matter by the
FCC immediately. Who induced Obenhaus and Peter Jennings to cover-up this
important evidence? Why? ABC News cannot claim ignorance on the matter
as they were directly given extensive testimony and evidence, none of which
appeared in the program.
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- Contact the FCC at www.fcc.gov.cgb.complaints.html and
demand an immediate investigation into this matter and demand that the
FCC require ABC to retract its false statements and present the evidence
which they possess but are hiding from the American public.
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- And lastly, support Disclosure in any way you can. Help
us get the truth out. Tell people about http://www.DisclosureProject.org
where they can find the truth about this important matter. And help us
identify backers who will help us start a new - and honest- news outlet
that will truthfully report on these and related projects that are illegally
kept secret from the public. Is it not time for us to form a news network
-The Disclosure Network- that will produce and air real investigative reports
on a wide range of government and corporate corruption? Matters now left
completely hidden by the complicity of big media need to be known by the
people if we are to renew and protect democracy and disclose the technologies
now hidden and suppressed that could replace oil and nuclear power and
give us a sustainable, peaceful world.
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- We can no longer trust ABC news or the rest of the big
media to do this. We, the people, must take on the task of getting the
truth out - and salvaging what is left of our democracy and planet. Big
media, who have become shills for their corporate masters, are incapable
or unwilling to tell the truth. It is time we did it for them.
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- Steven M. Greer MD
- Director and Founder
- The Disclosure Project
- Albemarle County Virginia
- March 2005
- http://www.DisclosureProject.org
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