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Imagine that you have been given a top-secret briefing revealing that elements of the U.S. government have sold the human race down the river to a group of evil aliens who only want to exploit humans as if we were cattle, and you have been given the power to decide whether or not to reveal this to the general public. Would you disclose it? Or would you think it better to keep it a secret to avoid panic?
That is the scenario outlined in the Lear Briefing that has been making the Internet rounds for many years and is the subject of the cover story in the February-March issue of UFO Magazine. John Lear, an accomplished aviator and son of Lear jet creator William Lear, investigated UFO phenomena from 1985 to 1992. He knew Robert Lazar, the engineer who claimed to work on alien craft at Area 51 in Nevada.
Lear summarized his conclusions in the form of a pretend briefing, which he presented on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show on Nov. 12, 2003. Lear asked Bell to imagine that the U.S. government had selected him to make the disclosure decision after being briefed on the facts, and whether he would say yes or no to full disclosure.
Bell answered "no," and Lear agreed. Apparently they think the "facts," assuming they are true, are just too horrible for the general public to handle without grave negative consequences to the social order.
Steve Bassett, however, president of Paradigm Research Group, gives an emphatic "yes" to disclosure. He is working full tilt for it, being the organizer of the upcoming Exopolitics Expo to be held April 16-17 in Washington D.C. He presents his arguments for disclosure in UFO Magazine and online at www.paradigmclock.com., responding point by point to Lear's briefing.
The horrible facts, according to Lear, are that a species of gray aliens, who are actually androids working for some other off-world power, deceived the U.S. authorities with the offer of advanced technology in return for a limited number of human abductions for research purposes. In fact, the canny aliens suckered the government agents who, like the Indians who sold Manhattan for a handful of trinkets, gave away the farm.
"We got something less than the technology we bargained for and found the abductions exceeded by a million fold what we had naively agreed to," Lear wrote. Some of the abductions allegedly include human mutilations, in which soft body parts are surgically and bloodlessly removed while the victims are still alive, similar to the more public cattle mutilations.
UFO researcher and filmmaker Lynda Moulton Howe adds to this scenario in her article currently on her "Earthfiles" website. "Perhaps the answer to the 'horrible secret' and why American policy ever since has been to deny ET existence at all costs began with the fear and shock that President Truman and his close associates felt when they allegedly learned that dissected humanoids and animal parts were found inside and near at least two of the UFOs that crashed in New Mexico in 1947," she writes.
Lear added that not all the aliens are so evil. He said another group of aliens in 1956 offered to get rid of the grays for us, but U.S. leaders turned them down because they didn't offer any technology!
Compounding stupidity and deceit with murder, government agents killed thousands of people to preserve the secret, including President John F. Kennedy, who threatened to blow the lid off the secret deal, Lear said. Another possible victim is James Forestall, America's first secretary of defense, who in 1949 suffered a nervous breakdown and was found dead at the bottom of a window at the asylum where he was being treated. The official verdict is suicide, but suspicions are strong that he was killed as a security risk because he sat on the original Majestic-12 panel managing the UFO secret.
Bassett argues that it is not completely certain that Lear's scenario is even accurate, which weakens the argument for the cover-up right off the bat. Even after 56 years of research by many investigators, "there are few certainties you can take to the bank," he wrote. Everyone in the field succumbs to the temptation to come up with the "big picture," but nobody has it right because nobody has all the facts.
"In other words, because of the cover-up it is not possible to establish a fully valid scenario. Without a valid scenario, we cannot decide to end the cover-up [or continue it, either]. This is not a circular argument the human race can afford," he says.
As for the "horrible secret" of human mutilations, which is the least likely part of the scenario, even if true it would not justify keeping quiet. "It is also true we can't stop terrorism and will likely live with it indefinitely. Who would advocate withholding all information of terrorist threats from the public in order to keep them calm?" Bassett asks.
I think there is another important point in favor of disclosure that can be summarized in that standard detective's question, "cui bono?" Who benefits from the cover up?
Certainly the cover-up provides no benefits for the people, especially victims of abductions, whose sufferings are compounded by official denial. To say the cover-up is for the public good is like saying that the Nazis had the good of the Jews at heart when they gave them bars of soap and told them they were going to have a nice, hot shower while marching them off to the gas chambers. All it does is make things easier for the evildoers.
Additionally, if what Lear says is true, the cover-uppers are the biggest blunderers in human history. Imagine selling human beings to inhuman torturers for the promise of technology, destroying and torturing thousands of innocent people, and getting nothing out of the bargain! It's almost as bad as communism. Of course they would want to hide the biggest bungle since Adam and Eve hid from God in the Garden of Eden.
Lies are designed to benefit only the liars. The "cosmic Watergate" serves only to protect a pack of mendacious, murdering bozos from the righteous fury their skullduggery should by rights arouse in the citizenry. Why dedicated UFO researchers would help these people keep in business is beyond me.
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