- One day after "Operation Bird Droppings", my
latest article on the MJ-12 hoax was posted online, I received the following
email from Timothy Cooper, a leading figure in the ongoing MJ-12 controversy.
(One may google his name, combining it with MJ-12 and/or SOM 1-01 for some
background information.)
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- In any case, much to my surprise, the once-pro MJ-12
Cooper has now disavowed all of the MJ-12 material, including the many
"documents" anonymously sent to him.
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- Here is Cooper's email to me. I have highlighted the
key sentences:
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- ----- Original Message -----
- From: timstoryscribe@aol.com
- To:hastings444@worldnet.att.net
- Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:24 PM
- Subject: Re: My new article on MJ-12 and Serpo
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- Read your posting and as one who was foolishly taken
in by the MJ-12 fantasy (which is what it is) I heartedly agree with your
assessment. My father was trained by the OSI in 1949 and held a UFO Program
clearance at ADC headquarters from 1957 to 1963 that allowed him to read
and duplicate the most sensitve [sic] UFO-related material and never once
believed there was a secret cabal group operating by that name. Since ADC
was the primary consumer of all military UFO sighting reports while LeMay
was Chief of Staff it is unconceivable that government intelligence or
the military for that matter as my dad would put it would deliberately
hide or mislead senior ADC intelligence officers of an alien threat from
the sky and, at the same time, send their intercept pilots into harms way
without being briefed of the possible dangers. The MJ-12 documents, and
I mean ALL of them (including SOM 1-01), are a hoax and those who promote
them as reality know this[,] or should know this. I showed him a copy and
he said it was disinformation for the Soviets as the CIA and AF routinely
did these kind of things all the time to get the Russians to spend enormous
sums of money to investigate this and other "paper" jobs. As
regards Serpo... pure science fiction but good science fiction.
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- As a unwitting dupe in this charade (I must confess I
was willing to be led into believeing [sic] it by Friedman and the Woods),
I have since distanced myself and have ceased association with Collins
after the book EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE (which, I might add, was poorly edited
and had my name as co-author air brushed out at my insistence) was released.
My only inclusion in the book amounted to Collins taking a speculative
piece I wrote for the internet back in 1999 about James Jesus Angleton
which he unilaterally edited into the book and was not a co-author in any
real sense.
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- By the way[,] I have your book and found it precise and
very informative. If my dad were still alive today he would have confirmed
for you some of the incidents you cite but earlier incidents as early as
1963. He was always coy when the subject came up but his Special Citation
upon his retirement reflected he knew what ADC was up against.
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- Thanks for the e-mail.
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- Tim Cooper
- timstoryscribe@aol.net
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- -----Original Message-----
- From: Robert Hastings hastings444@worldnet.att.net>
- To: timcoopers@charter.net
- Sent: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 5:33 pm
- Subject: My new article on MJ-12 and Serpo
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- The attached article has just been posted at:
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- HYPERLINK "http://www.theufochronicles.com/2009/04/operation-bird-droppings.html"
\t "_blank" http://www.theufochronicles.com/2009/04/operation-bird-droppings.html
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- After receiving this message, I responded to Cooper:
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- ----- Original Message -----
- From:hastings444@worldnet.att.net" \o Robert Hastings
- To: timstoryscribe@aol.com"
- Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 11:03 PM
- Subject: Re: My new article on MJ-12 and Serpo
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- Tim,
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- Thanks for the very informative email. To my knowledge,
you have not publicly broken with Doty and Collins and the idea of MJ-12
as something real, or did I miss something?
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- If you have posted online or emailed information such
as you just did to me, please send it my way. I would like to read it.
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- May I forward your email to Collins and others? I am
going to be on the radio next week, on two different shows, debunking MJ-12.
Care to join me?
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- Robert
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- Despite a follow-up email to Cooper, in which I asked
him whether he had received this message, he never responded. I consider
this to be an unfortunate response (or non-response) given that Cooper's
highly-publicized involvement with, and advocacy for, the MJ-12 material
over the years has further confused the issue relating to the supposed
legitimacy of the group MJ-12, and has served to fuel the fires of controversy
on this topic. If he has now repudiated his earlier position it is essential
for him to publicize that fact far and wide. A single email to one researcher
(me) is simply insufficient. I gave Cooper an opportunity to participate
in a series of upcoming radio interviews, in which I will be discussing
my new MJ-12 exposé, but he has apparently declined.
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- In any case, someone had to enter this important development
in the public record, so I have. Further updates relating to my article
will be issued as warranted.
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- --Robert Hastings
- ufohastings.com
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