From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:56:32 -0500
Archived: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:56:32 -0500
Subject: More BS From CSI On Big Sur




Source: Frank Warren's UFO Chronicles.Com

www.theufochronicles.com/2009/02/more-bs-from-csi-on-big-sur.html

Saturday, February 07, 2009


More BS From CSI On Big Sur
By Robert Hastings
ufohastings.com

Journalist Terry Hansen is the author of the excellent book, The
Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up, which
authoritatively exposes the U.S. government's infiltration of
the American elite media over the decades - for the purpose of
covertly promoting officially-sanctioned propaganda on a variety
of subjects, ranging from communism to UFOs.

Regarding CSICOP [now renamed the Committee for Skeptical
Inquiry or CSI], Hansen examines the possibility that the
organization that publishes Skeptical Inquirer magazine,
CSICOP/CSI,was infiltrated early on by a small but determined
group of U.S. government-affiliated operatives, whose true
motives have far more to do with disinformation than skepticism.

He writes, "[The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the Paranormal] is an organization of people who
oppose what they contend is pseudo-science... CSICOP, contrary
to its impressive-sounding title, does not sponsor scientific
research. On the contrary, it's main function has been to oppose
scientific research, especially in areas such as psychic
phenomena and UFOs, two topics that, coincidentally or not, have
been of demonstrated interest to the intelligence community over
the decades. Instead, CSICOP devotes nearly all of its resources
to influencing the American public via the mass media. As author
Jerome Clark, editor of the International UFO Reporter, once
pointed out, 'CSICOP's ability to influence media is legendary.
It's Manual for Local, Regional and National Groups devotes 17
pages to 'Handling the Media' and 'Public Relations' and,
tellingly, a mere three to 'Scientific Investigations'...'"

Hansen continues, "CSICOP can accurately be described as a
propaganda organization because it does not take anything
approaching an objective position regarding UFOs. The
organization's stance is militantly anti-UFO research and it
works hard to see that the news media broadcast its views
whenever possible. When the subject of UFOs surfaces, either in
the news media or any other public forum, CSICOP members turn
out rapidly to add their own spin to whatever is being said.
Through its "Council for Media Integrity" CSICOP maintains close
ties with the editorial staffs of such influential science
publications as Scientific American, Nature, and New Scientist.
Consequently, it's not too hard to understand why balanced UFO
articles seldom appear in those [magazines]."

"... CSICOP [now CSI] members typically publish their thoughts
on UFOs and other 'paranormal' phenomena via Prometheus Books, a
closely related publishing house that also offers a surprising
number of volumes on such topics as child-adult sexuality,
prostitution, sadomasochism, and pornography. It would be
interesting to know which titles sell better; those devoted to
debunking UFOs and paranormal research, or those about sex.
Perhaps it's worth pointing out at this point that cross-
 subsidizing unprofitable activities with profitable ones has
been a hallmark of many covert intelligence operations."

The long-time and still-current Executive Editor of Skeptical
Inquirer, Kendrick Frazier, worked for more than two decades as
a PR Specialist at Sandia National Laboratories - although one
will have to look high and low to find references to that
employment in his magazine and even in his self-published online
biography. Sandia Labs is one of the U.S. government's most
important nuclear weapons labs. Those of you familiar with my
research know that a UFO-Nukes Connection has been confirmed by
hundreds of declassified USAF, FBI and CIA documents, as well as
by the testimony of nearly 100 USAF veterans who were involved
in the incidents.

So who is routinely trying to debunk the reality of UFOs and the
notion of a UFO cover-up in Skeptical Inquirer? Why, a PR guy
working for the U.S. government's nuclear weapons program!
(Although he is strangely shy about publicly acknowledging where
he picked up his paycheck for over 20 years, the same period
when he was feverishly debunking UFOs!)

The Big Sur case, which Frazier's rag tried to debunk in 1993,
involved the filming of a UFO shooting down a dummy nuclear
warhead in flight, on September 15, 1964 - according to two
former U.S. Air Force officers, Dr. Bob Jacobs and Dr. Florenze
Mansmann. In the wake of my well-documented article on the case,
posted at my website in 2008, Skeptical Inquirer's latest issue
once again attempts to debunk the Big Sur UFO Incident, using
the same sleight-of-hand tricks, distortions, and outright
falsehoods the magazine trotted out in the earlier bogus article
by Kingston A. George in 1993. Same BS, new packaging.

I am currently preparing a rebuttal and will post it on this
forum and elsewhere. The title will be: Kingston George's Latest
Comments In Skeptical Inquirer On The Big Sur UFO: Deep Denial
Or Disinformation?

The actual facts about Big Sur may be found on the Articles page
at my website:

ufohastings.com


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