Dr. Steven Greer will appear on Art Bell "Coast
to Coast" - the largest late night radio talk show in America - on Friday
evening, September 24, 10 PM PST (WWRC AM 570 in DC Metro). At that time he
will publicly respond to a September 16, 1999 letter from former CIA Director James
Woolsey regarding their 3-hour, December, 1993 meeting in Arlington, VA on the subject
of the UFO/ET government cover-up. will appear on Art Bell "Coast
to Coast" - the largest late night radio talk show in America - on Friday
evening, September 24, 10 PM PST (WWRC AM 570 in DC Metro). At that time he
will publicly respond to a September 16, 1999 letter from former CIA Director James
Woolsey regarding their 3-hour, December, 1993 meeting in Arlington, VA on the subject
of the UFO/ET government cover-up.
Dr. Greer, who is the International Director of CSETI
(Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) will appear with Stephen
Bassett, founder of Paradigm Research Group and Executive Director of X-PPAC
(Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee). They will discuss the CIA
Director Woolsey meeting as well as the 1993 Clinton administration briefings, which were
brought to the public's attention for the first time on Art Bell "Coast to
Coast," January 5, 1998. That program is archived and linked from: [www.paradigmclock.com/guest_link_archive.html]
The Clinton administration briefings; Associate Attorney
General Webster Hubbell's UFO inquiries; the memoir of the late Col. Philip Corso, The
Day After Roswell; and the public statements of Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell
and others represent one of the most extraordinary political stories of the 20th century.
A story which the mainstream political press have astoundingly sidestepped.
Mr. Woolsey's letter confirms the 1993 meeting took
place, but disputes the characterization of the meeting as published in the introduction
to Greer's new book, Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications [www.DrGreer.com]. Dr. Greer's written response to this
disputation will be posted to the CSETI website [www.cseti.org]
and the Paradigm Research Group website [www.paradigmclock.com].
Woolsey’s letter to Greer will be published in the September 30, 1999 CNI News
[www.cninews.com].
To contact:
Greer response to Woolsey:
Tonight I was asked by the editor of a small UFO
newsletter (CNI News) to comment on a recent letter signed by former CIA Director R. James
Woolsey et al. regarding my meeting with him on December 13,1993. Apparently, this letter
was sent to Michael Lindemann for publication in the September 30 edition of the CNI
newsletter.
Mr. Woolsey and the others question the accuracy ( or
manners) of my depiction of this meeting in the introduction of my new book Extraterrestrial
Contact: The Evidence and Implications (www.DrGreer.com).
You can read this introduction on the website for yourself.
Mr. Woolsey et al. have a very selective memory of this
nearly 3 hour briefing of a sitting CIA Director. If anything, and my wife who was present
can attest to this, my description of the meeting is incredibly understated.
In his letter, Mr. Woolsey (now apparently a lobbyist in
Washington) implies that this was not a briefing but only a dinner party, and that the
dinner party was not a cover story for the briefing, etc.
It must be understood that it was a friend of the CIA
Director, Mr. Petersen - not myself - who characterized the dinner party as a cover story
for the meeting with the CIA Director. Indeed, Mr. Petersen made the arrangements for this
meeting and hosted it at his home in Arlington, VA . He told me and my wife that even his
wife did not know Mr. Woolsey was coming to their home for dinner until the morning of the
briefing.
They claim my characterization and specific references
describing the meeting were inaccurate. Not at all.
Quoting from a sensitive memo FedEx'ed to my home from
Mr. Petersen, who made all of the arrangements with the CIA Director:
"I talked to Woolsey this morning and he
(underlined in the original) suggested getting together over dinner. He was not aware of
your organization or that anyone was planning such an announcement {regarding UFOs/smg} .
This almost certainly means that, 1) there is an active attempt being made at lower levels
of government to sabotage Project Starlight {the CSETI UFO disclosure effort/smg}, 2) this
group almost certainly has tapped your phones and is aware of most of the details of your
plans..."
"If we do have dinner with Jim (Woolsey), we will
have moved this whole thing to a much, much higher plane and in doing so raised
significant red flags for those who don't want to see this succeed. Operation Starlight
will become a serious (underlined) threat to the status quo."
"Meetings with people like Woolsey must be kept
very closely guarded. I have not even told Diane {Mr. Petersen's wife/smg} about it."
"You must understand that great principalities and
powers will oppose your plans..."
Then, all in bold: " Remember: the most powerful
people in the world will have a deep, compelling interest in our activities and will use
everything (in italics) at their disposal to effect their objectives."
And so forth.
Mr. Petersen, who heads up a national security think
tank called The Arlington Institute, was working very closely with me during those days
and had substantial experience in national security and military matters.
From the above quotes it is obvious that this was no
mere dinner party! The dinner party was only the cover - and the stakes were and are every
bit what Mr. Petersen describes.
As for other information contested in Mr. Woolsey's
letter, I stand by the account. Regarding Mr. Woolsey's UFO sighting: This was first
conveyed to me by his long-time friend Mr. Petersen and was later confirmed at the
briefing.
In my new book, I reproduce the document handed to Mr.
Woolsey during the briefing. In this document, which I handed personally to him, we
recommend that Mr. Woolsey and the President move decisively towards a near-term
disclosure of the UFO/ETI matter. Just a dinner party?
I am certain that Mr. Woolsey knew the UFOs were real
and that a very deep cover project was running that area - a project which had kept the
CIA Director himself in the dark.
Later in their letter, Mr. Woolsey et al. complain that
my conduct "contravenes ....simple manners". Manners? I was on Larry King Live
over 9 months after the meeting with the CIA Director . But this meeting was not
disclosed, because Mr. Woolsey was still in office, and I felt decorum necessitated
silence regarding such meetings. I have behaved with the utmost restraint and have
disclosed such matters only after very careful consideration. Indeed, I would not be
writing this letter except that Lindemann at CNI plans to publish Mr. Woolsey's 'sanitized
' account of the briefing and has compelled me to write. (Why Mr. Woolsey et al. would
make such a letter available to Lindemann is beyond me.) I made no pact of silence
regarding such meetings. And since disclosing this meeting, I have always portrayed Mr.
Woolsey and his wife as people seeking the truth of such matters and as people who wanted
excessive secrecy ended. Perhaps I was wrong...
Manners? Indeed - if anything, perhaps I have been too
restrained.
Good 'manners' as it pertains to this subject means
speaking the truth - and being willing to stand up for it. Good manners would be public
servants such as Mr. Woolsey, Dr. Woolsey and others doing the right thing and working
ardently for the truth to be told regarding UFOs and ETI. Good manners should mean being
more concerned for the health of our democracy and the constitution than covering-up the
import and purpose of such a briefing. And good manners would be joining in the effort to
disclose a matter which, once made public, would allow earth-saving technologies to be
revealed which would halt the wholesale destruction of our eco-system.
As a very busy emergency doctor in NC, with 4 young
daughters, I assure you that we did not make that brief trip to Washington DC on December
13, 1993 to sightsee or just to have dinner. But rather, we made that journey to plead for
the end of super - secret projects which are being withheld from the people so that our
democracy could be made whole and our children's future made sustainable.
The current attempt to minimize, obfuscate or cover-up
the purpose and details of this briefing with the CIA Director is quite disconcerting -and
strange. Why Mr. Woolsey and the others would write such a letter is unknown to me. We can
only speculate. I stand by my account. But now, perhaps the time has come for ''we the
people' to demand that current and former officials such as CIA Director Woolsey and the
President be held responsible for the lack of action on resolving this most pressing
problem. After all, we pay their salaries, provide their perks - and they represent us. It
is not I who needs defense. My actions over these long years have spoken my commitment.
But we still await action from our elected and appointed officials. As the earth groans
under the weight of the erosive and corrupting influences of big money and special
interests, I wonder just how much longer we shall have to wait...
I think it is time that the American people demand that
the waiting time be over.
Steven M. Greer M.D.
CSETI Director
23 September 1999
Albemarle County Virginia
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