by Rigorous Intuition » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:59 am
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Any RIers read this book? If so, some thoughts and reviews of the subject? Bennewitz' tale is still kind of new to me."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>It's a good book, and that review is pretty close to my read of it.<br><br>I think Bishop is in the same category as Nick Redfern, author of <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Body Snatchers in the Desert</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> and <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>On the Trail of the Saucer Spies</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. They admit both a true phenomenon of high weirdness and a counterfeit phenomenon of covert manipulation. Those who see ETs everywhere are going to call them debunkers, but they're simply critical thinkers in a field that doesn't receive enough critical thought.<br><br>I'm reminded again of the staged abduction of <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/no-time-to-think.html">Frank Fontaine</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> in 1979. Jacques Vallee's investigation led to France's Ministry of Defense. Here's part of an exchange between one of Vallee's associates and a "Mr D" of the Service Technique des Engines Tactiques in a Parisian safe house on Novemeber 14, 1980:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Will you tell me what the disappearance of Franck Fontaine was all about?"<br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>"We refer to the operation as an Exercise of General Synthesis. A highly-placed personality has done detailed planning for it." [ He mentioned the name of a cabinet member with vast connections to the world of high technology.]<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"How many people were in the know?"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>"No more than ten to fifteen, all at a high enough level to establish what sort of manipulation was justified under the state secrets rule."<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"What were your objectives?"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>"The operation was structured around military, scientific, and political goals. It was purely national and had no impact beyond our borders."<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"What happened to Fontaine?"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>"We put him to sleep and he was kept under an altered state of high suggestibility."<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>"Were you also using the media? Did you have wider objectives?"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>"I cannot answer your question. But if this operation had been completed, the next phase would have been far worse."<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>"Why are you telling me all this?"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>"I have my own reasons."<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Aren't you afraid I will publish this interview?"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>"Anything you publish will simply be denied." <br><br>....<br><br>Naturally, this needn't be the truth, either. It could just be more of the masquerade, another layer of disinformation. All that can be said with certainty is that <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>something is going on</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. And probably several <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>somethings</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> simultaneously. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 6/5/06 10:01 am<br></i>