Just Another Small Bump in the Road to Disclosure?

BY GARY S BEKKUM

(STARpod.org) -- This has become a difficult story to tell; a tale not unlike superstring M-theory, that consists in part of mystery, magic (or should that be 'MAJIC'?) and murkiness. The deeper one looks into the actors and players, the darker and less defined the story becomes. The plot thickens but cannot be divined by ordinary mortal detective work. This is a tale of our time, for all times.

It is also very clearly a tale of some serious investigative inquiries, and here we speak of threats backed by no legal recourse; as we skim the edge of this dark abyss we pause to wonder briefly how close we dare approach the rumblings without becoming trapped by the movement below. Some among us have ventured quite closely and are understandably cautious. The recent problems of a certain New York Times reporter involving leaks and scandals over the secret identity of a CIA covert employee weigh in the back of our minds.

Rather than add to the ever-growing shadow of confusion, let me make one point quite clear. The same official of the United States Government that previously requested that Starstream Research remove specific items from a story we published and later retracted in July of this year (2006) has also raised a serious issue about a potential threat to the national security, perhaps involving espionage and foreign powers, and has acted to interpret that threat to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. We aren't about to release his name, position or name his associates that are tangentially involved in this sordid affair, but we have been partially freed to tell this tale by a mutual contact, our man in Washington, Dan T. Smith, who faithfully produces a blog about his (mis-?) adventures with the men in black suits.

We also made an overture to someone closely aligned with both sides of this recent scuffle, thus far without response. Giving this individual the benefit of the doubt, as he is understandably busy performing his day job, we await patiently for his expected rebuttal.

"I am of course aware of far more than what has been posted at Dan's blog, coming from various sources.   Your input is highly valued, as I am hoping for something more from you than, 'no comment.'  Thank you."

Meanwhile, it appears that Mr. Smith is quite willing to push the envelope, but having not quite knocked the ball out of the park, he is not quite ready to run the bases to home plate. We must give credit where credit is due, however, keeping in mind that Mr. Smith points to his intelligence connections as providing direction for his own 'rogue' activities.

A few items posted by Mr. Smith at his blog are of particular interest. We reproduce them here for the curious reader, with permission, and without further comment, knowing that a fish or two may have been caught up in the net (or should that be the network?) and released. Others may look forward to the frying pan, no doubt!

For those readers that remain uninitiated into 'AVIAN' politics, we suggest a little background material prior to attempting any understanding of what follows.

The following material in quotations are excerpts taken verbatim from Mr. Smith's blog:

"Some months ago (a year ago?) Joe Stefula told me that he had alerted the FBI to some new and allegedly classified material that had surfaced. Actually, Joe had asked me to take up this matter with the Baltimore office of the FBI, to follow up on my two previous visits there.  I had begged off of this task, and Joe went ahead with it himself.  I'm thinking that this may have been in reference to some of the documents contained in Bob Collin's EfD book. These were documents allegedly provided by Rick Doty.  I was told later that the FBI had contacted RMC and BJ about this matter. They knew better than to go after Rick for the umpteenth time.  These may have been some of the same documents referred to by CF, as mentioned above. I don't recall now that any of this directly involved SERPO, beyond the indirect linkage stated by CF in the 9/1 entry.  Also recall the 6/26 entry wherein CF was threatening to ask the FBI to serve warrants on people involved in the circulation of the MJ-12 documents, as being possible material witnesses to treasonable activity.  I have not been further informed about the status of that threat."

"This from CF yesterday to us other three fish:

'I just wanted to let you know that during the past few days I have been involved in several e-mail exchanges with Rick Doty.  In those exchanges, Rick has claimed not to have accessed SANDIA, LLNL or sensitive military installations since his retirement from USAF.   He also has claimed to have no involvement with UFOs since January 2006, no knowledge of the source of the names of DIA employees linked to SERPO or the identification of [JG] as Mr. Anonymous.  These claims appear to conflict with what most of us generally perceive as reality.  Nevertheless I have no strong evidence that counters his claims.  I would appreciate photos or other evidence that I could share with Rick that might seem to counter his claims.  I certainly want to extend to Rick an opportunity to demonstrate he is not involved with SERPO or UFO stories as he claims.  But if true, then who was it that escorted [xxx] into sensitive military facilities?  Since I first heard of Rick Doty there have been perplexing stories of multiple Doty's.  Perhaps his dimensionally shifted twin it the culprit, but I would not know how to differentiate between such otherwise identical Dotys.  Any suggestions?'

DF and I believe that we do have access to such information.

One sticking point is that CF is subsequently demanding photos.  I have pointed out to him that any unauthorized photos taken on a military base would subject the photographer to arrest.

I have stated that we ought to be able to obtain a sufficiently detailed description of the secure vault that was accessed by Rick to enable the interested parties to confirm that this did happened.  This entails negotiation with a third party who was present.  That may take a few more days."

"Yesterday CF sent the following:

'Please provide any photos that document Doty accessing secure military facilities and I will forward them to his supervisor for positive identification.  I do not want photos of Doty attending UFO conferences, standing outside military facilities, or doing any of the activities common to UFO investigators.'"

"Meanwhile CF has contacted Rick's supervisor in the NMSP concerning threats made to Shawnna.  CF has made some of his correspondence with Rick available to someone at the RU forum asking him to withhold any posting of it for another couple of days while Rick is allegedly dealing with a personal matter.  This correspondence indicates that Rick is refusing to cooperate, and instead is making threats against CF.

It is my understanding that Rick has been put on administrative leave for some weeks as a result of the earlier threats which are posted on RU.  It is my further understanding that BJ remains supportive/defensive of Rick's role in the SERPO affair, while he personally supposes that SERPO is largely a piece of disinformation.  TBMK, BJ also remains open to aspects of the core story, as does CF to somewhat different aspects.  It remains unclear as to what if any is the overlap of the respective aspects.  CF does discount the biological aspects presented by BJ.

Let us suppose that there are no major developments in this story over the weekend.  Where will that leave us? Will any new light have been shed on SERPO or the core story?  It does appear that Rick's personal stability has effectively been called into question.  This can only detract from whatever remaining credibility he may previously have had.  At this late date, it would be very difficult to simply factor out Rick's very significant contributions to the core story.

If Rick is permanently sidelined and BJ's and RC's credibilities are correspondingly impugned in the process, this then leaves the fate of that story largely in the hands of CF."

"Rick has until Wednesday to respond positively to CF's request for cooperation before he lodges a formal complaint with the NMSP.  He remains doubtful that Rick will respond.  Rick is between a rock and a hard place. It is no small matter for an officer of the law to suborn testimony to a federal agent, i.e. BJ who is working under various federal code-name clearances, overseen by CF.  On the other hand, if Rick has any real sources, these should have been reported immediately to the NMSP on the clear suspicion that they were trafficking in sensitive information.  Rick is not a journalist.  He is an officer of the law.  He has none of the lenience usually granted to the former.  CF avers that the local police are deputized to investigate matters pertaining to national security, in lieu of the FBI who have long-since tired of investigating officer Doty. But then there was something else.  CF expects that Rick will respond more forthrightly to an internal inquiry."

"Later today I'm expecting to receive from CF his correspondence with Rick, concerning Rick's involvement in the SERPO circus earlier this year.  I will post that to a temporary page here, just to allow the interested parties time to transfer it to their own locations.  I don't expect there to be any attempt to conceal the identity of CF in that correspondence.

There is no point for DF and me to involve ourselves in this controversy any more than we are already implicated through an association with CF.  DF continues to be more the skeptic relative to the core story than am I. Where we go from here is the question of the day.  That depends in good measure upon the outcome of any further investigation involving Rick's alleged DIA sources.  I understand that a third name has surfaced in that connection.  CF has terminated his correspondence with Rick at this point. The only ongoing investigation would be internal to the NMSP, presumably with some feedback to us.  If there were any actual involvement of the DIA beyond what is already known, I don't know if that information would be conveyed to us.

That Paul Murad of the DIA may have communicated with Rick about SERPO is quite possible, but whether he was the source of any possibly sensitive information about other DIA personnel is quite another matter.  That issue could use some clarification."

"You were correct that my interest is not specifically in Doty.  My interest in temporarily removing Doty from the plot is to test whether another actor will fill the role.  Dan had commented several months back that the story might have created Doty rather than the other way around.  Indeed your viral hypothesis may benefit from some refinement.  Individuals that are infected do not simply become part of a larger sickness pool, but rather they fill specific and unique niches.  But how unique are these roles and what determines their specifics?  With Doty temporarily removed, will someone fill in as simply another of the mythical and indistinguishable Dotys?  Or will that someone fill in with unique characteristics clearly distinguishable from Doty?  Will that someone move the story forward to the next chapter?"

We are anxiously waiting to turn the page in this ever-evolving soap opera.