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<conspiracyFile>-Here's the lowdown on "ALTERNATIVE 3" from a TV-movie compendium.
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"ALTERNATIVE 3" (GB 1977; 52m, colour)
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Amusing spoof do commentary about the disappearance of various high-IQ
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citizens, allegedly to form nucleus of a standby civilization on Mars against
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the coming End of the World. Sly parodies of fashionable breathless TV
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journalism sweetened the joke, ex- newscaster Tim Brinton held it all
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together with po-faced gravity and needless to say some supernature fanatics
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refuse to this day to accept that it was anything but gospel truth, although
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it was orignally scheduled for April 1st (1977). Written by David Ambrose;
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directed by Chris Miles; for Anglia. Apparently the TV-movie was spawned by a
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book (or assuming the date is accurate, vice versa) of the same name. Written
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by Leslie Watkins, it was published by Sphere Books Ltd. in 1978.
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ALTERNATIVE 003
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by
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Leslie Watkins
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with
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David Ambrose & Christopher Miles
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Section 1
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NO NEWSPAPER has yet secured the truth behind the operation known
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as ALTERNATIVE 3. Investigations by journalists have been blocked by
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governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain. American and Russia are
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ruthlessly obsessed with guarding their shared secret and this obsession, as
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we can now prove, has made them partners in murder.
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However, despite this intensive security, fragments of information have
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been made public. Often they are released inadvertently by experts who do
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not appreciate their sinister significance and these fragments, in isolation,
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mean little. But when jigsawed together they form a definite pattern, a
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pattern which appears to emphasize the enormity of this conspiracy of
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silence.
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On May 3, 1977, the Daily Mirror published this story:
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President Jimmy Carter has joined the ranks of UFO spotters. He sent
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in two written reports stating he had seen a flying saucer when he was the
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Governor of Georgia.
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The President has shrugged off the incident since then, perhaps fearing
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that electors might be wary of a flying saucer freak.
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But he was reported as saying after the "sighting"; "I don't laugh at
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people any more when they say they've seen UFOs because I've seen one
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myself."
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Carter described his UFO like this: "Luminous, not solid, at first bluish,
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then reddish. It seemed to move towards us from a distance, stopped, then
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moved partially away."
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Carter filed two reports on the sighting in 1973, one to the
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International UFO Bureau and the other to the National Investigations
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Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
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Heydon Hewes, who directs the International UFO Bureau from his
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home in Oklahoma City, is making speeches praising the President's
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"open-mindedness."
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But during his presidential campaign last year Carter was cautious. He
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admitted he had seen a light in the sky but declined to call it a UFO.
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He joked: "I think it was a light beckoning me to run in the California
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primary election."
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Why this change in Carter's attitude? Because, by then, he had been
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briefed on Alternative 3?
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A 1966 Gallup Poll showed that five million Americans including several
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highly experienced airline pilots claimed to have seen Flying Saucers.
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Fighter pilot Thomas Mantell has already died while chasing one over
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Kentucky his F.51 aircraft having disintegrated in the violent wash of his
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quarry's engines.
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The U.S. Air Force, reluctantly bowing to mounting pressure, asked Dr.
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Edward Uhler Condon, a professor of astrophysics, to head an investigation
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team at Colorado University.
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Condon's budget was $500000. Shortly before his report appeared in
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1968, this story appeared in the London Evening Standard:
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The Condon study is making headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. It
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is losing some of its outstanding members, under circumstances which are
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mysterious to say the least. Sinister rumors are circulating. At least four key
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people have vanished from the Condon team without offering a satisfactory
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reason for their departure.
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The complete story behind the strange events in Colorado is hard to
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decipher. But a clue, at last may be found in the recent statements of Dr.
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James McDonald, the senior physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric
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Physics at the University of Arizona and widely respected in his field. In a
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wary, but ominous, telephone conversation this week, Dr. McDonald told me
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that he is "most distressed." Condon's 1485-page report denied the
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existence of Flying Saucers and a panel of the American National Academy of
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Sciences endorsed the conclusion that "further extensive study probably
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cannot be justified."
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But, curiously, Condon's joint principal investigator, Dr. David Saunders,
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had not contributed a word to that report. And on January 11, 1969, the
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Daily Telegraph quoted Dr. Saunders as saying of the report:
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"It is inconceivable that it can be anything but a cold stew. No matter
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how long it is, what it includes, how it is said, or what it recommends, it will
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lack the essential element of credibility."
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Already there were wide-spread suspicions that the Condon
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investigation had been part of an official coverup, that the government knew
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the truth but was determined to keep it from the public. We now know that
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those suspicions were accurate. And that the secrecy was all because of
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Alternative 3.
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Only a few months after Dr. Saunders made his "cold stew" statement a
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journalist with the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch embarrassed the National
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Aeronautics and Space Agency by photographing a strange craft looking
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exactly like a Flying Saucer at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico.
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At first no one at NASA would talk about this mysterious circular craft,
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15 feet in diameter, which had been left in the "missile graveyard" a section
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of the range where most experimental vehicles were eventually dumped.
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But the Martin Marietta company of Denver, where it was built,
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acknowledged designing several models, some with ten and twelve engines.
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And a NASA official, faced with this information, said, "Actually the engineers
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used to call it 'The Flying Saucer."
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That confirmed a statement made by Dr. Garry Henderson, a leading
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space research scientist: "All our astronauts have seen these objects but have
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been ordered not to discuss their findings with anyone."
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Otto Binder was a member of the NASA space team. He has stated that
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NASA "killed" significant segments of conversation between Mission Control
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and Apollo 11, the spacecraft which took Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to
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the Moon and that those segments were deleted from the official record:
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"Certain sources with their own VHF receiving facilities that by passed
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NASA broadcast outlets claim there was a portion of Earth-Moon dialogue
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that was quickly cut off by the NASA monitoring staff."
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Binder added:
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"It was presumably when the two moon walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong,
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were making the round some distance from the LEM that Armstrong
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clutched Aldrin's arm excitedly and exclaimed 'What was it? What the hell
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was it? That's all I want to know.' "
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Then, according to Binder, there was this exchange:
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MISSION CONTROL: What's there? malfunction(garble).Mission
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Control calling Apollo 11.
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APOLLO 11: These babies were huge, sir. enormous, Oh, God you
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wouldn't believe it!
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I'm telling you there are other space-craft out there
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lined up on the far side of the crater edge.
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They're on the Moon watching us.
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NASA, understandably, has never confirmed Binder's story but Buzz
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Aldrin was soon complaining bitterly about the Agency having used him as a
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"traveling salesman."
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And two years after his Moon mission, following reported bouts of heavy
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drinking, he was admitted to hospital with "emotional depression."
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"Traveling salesman", that's an odd choice of words, isn't it? What, in
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Aldrin's view, were the NASA authorities trying to sell? And to whom?
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Could it be that they were using him, and others like him, to sell their
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official version of the truth to ordinary people right across the world?
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Was Aldrin's Moon walk one of those great spectaculars, presented with
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maximum publicity, to justify the billions being poured into space research?
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Was it part of the American-Russian cover for Alternative 3?
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All men who have travelled to the Moon have given indications of
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knowing about Alternative 3 and of the reasons which precipitated it.
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In May, 1972, James Irwin, officially the sixth man to walk on the
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Moon, resigned to become a Baptist missionary. And he said then, "The
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flight made me a deeper religious person and more keenly aware of the
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fragile nature of our planet."
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Edgar Mitchell, who landed on the Moon with the Apollo 14 mission in
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February, 1971, also resigned in May, 1972 to devote himself to
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parapsychology. Later, at the headquarters of his Institute for noetic
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Sciences near San Francisco, he described looking at this world from the
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Moon: "I went into a very deep pathos, a kind of anguish. That incredibly
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beautiful planet that was Earth, a place no bigger than my thumb was my
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home.. a blue and white jewel against a velvet black sky...was being killed
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off."
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And on March 23, 1974, he was quoted in the Daily Express as saying
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that society had only three ways in which to go and that the third was "the
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most viable but most difficult alternative."
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Another of the Apollo Moon walkers, Bob Grodin, was equally specific
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when interviewed by a Sceptre Television reporter on June 20, 1977;
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"You think they need all that crap down in Florida just to put two guys
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up there on a bicycle? The hell they do! You know why they need us?
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So they've got a P.R. story for all that hardware they've been firing into
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space.
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We're nothing, man! Nothing!"
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On July 11, 1977, the Los Angeles Times came near to the heart of
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the matter, nearer than any other newspaper, when it published a
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remarkable interview with Dr. Gerard O'Neill.
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Dr. O'Neill is a Princeton professor who served, during a 1976
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sabbatical, as Professor of Aerospace at the Massachusetts Institute of
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Technology and who gets nearly $500000 each year in research grants from
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NASA. Here is a section from that article:
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The United Nations, he says, has conservatively estimated that the
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world's population, now more than 4000000000 people, will grow to about 6500000000
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by the year 2000. Today, he adds, about 30% of the world's
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population is in developed nations. But, because most of the projected
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population growth will occur in underdeveloped countries, that will drop to
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22% by the end of the century. The world of 2000 will be poorer and
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hungrier than the world today, he says.
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Dr. O'Neill also explained the problems caused by the earth's 4000 mile
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atmospheric layer, but presumably because the article was comparatively
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short one, he was not quoted on the additional threat posed by the notorious
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"greenhouse" syndrome.
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His solution? He called it Island 3. And he added: "There's no debate
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about the technology involved in doing it. That's been confirmed by NASA's
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top people."
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But Dr. O'Neill, a family man with three children who like to fly
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sailplanes in his spare time, did not realize that he was slightly off target.
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He was right, of course, about the technology.
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But he knew nothing of the political ramifications and he would have
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been astounded to learn that NASA was feeding his research to the Russians.
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Even eminent political specialists, as respected in their sphere as Dr.
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O'Neill is in his own, have been puzzled by an undercurrent they have
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detected in East-West relationships.
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Professor G. Gordon Broadbent, director of the independently financed
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Institute of Political Studies in London and author of a major study of
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U.S.-Soviet diplomacy since the 1950s, emphasized that fact on June 20,
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1977, when he was interviewed on Sceptre Television:
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"On the broader issue of Soviet-U.S. relations, I must admit there is an
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element of mystery which troubles many people in my field."
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He added: "What we're suggesting is that, at the very highest levels of
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East-West diplomacy, there has been operating a factor of which we know
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nothing. Now it could just be and I stress the word 'could' that this
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unknown factor is some kind of massive but covert operation in space. But
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as for the reasons behind it we are not in the business of speculation."
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Washington's acute discomfort over O'Neill's revelations through the Los
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Angeles Times can be assessed by the urgency with which a "suppression"
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Bill was rushed to the Statute Book.
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On July 27, 1977, only sixteen days after publication of the O'Neill
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interview columnist Jeremy Campbell reported in the London Evening
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Standard that the Bill would become law that September. He wrote:
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It prohibits the publishing of an official report without permission,
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arguing that this obstructs the Government's control of its own information.
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That was precisely the charge brought against Daniel Ellsberg for giving the
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Pentagon papers to the New York Times.
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Most ominous of all, the Bill would make it a crime for any present or
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former civil servant to tell the Press of Government wrong doing or pass on
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any news based on information "submitted to the Government in private."
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Campbell pointed out that this final clause "has given serious pain to
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guardians of American Press freedom because it creates a brand new crime."
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Particularly as there was provision in the Bill for offending journalists to be
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sent to prison for up to six years.
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We subsequently discovered that a man called Harman Leonard Harman
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read that item in the newspaper and that later, in a certain television
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executives' dining room, he expressed regret that a similar Law had not been
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passed years earlier by the British government.
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He was eating treacle tart with custard at the time and he reflected
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wistfully that he could then have insisted on such a Law being obeyed. That,
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when it came to Alternative 3, would have saved him from a great deal of
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trouble.
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He had chosen treacle tart, not because he particularly liked it, but
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because it was 2p(ence) cheaper than the chocolate sponge. That was
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typical of Harman.
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He was one of the people, as you may have learned already through the
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Press, who tried to interfere with the publication of this book. We will later
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be presenting some of the letters received by us from him and his lawyers
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together with the replies from our legal advisers.
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We decided to print these letters in order to give you a thorough insight
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into our investigation for it is important to stress that we, like Professor
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Broadbent, are not in the "business of speculation." We are interested only in
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the facts.
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And it is intriguing to note the pattern of facts relating to astronauts
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who have been on Moon missions and who have therefore been exposed to
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some of the surprises presented by Alternative 3.
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A number, undermined by the strain of being party to such a
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horrendous secret, suffered nervous or mental collapses. A high percentage
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sought sanctuary in excessive drinking or in extramarital affairs which
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destroyed what had been secure and successful marriages.
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Yet these were men originally picked from many thousands precisely
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because of their stability. Their training and experience, intelligence and
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physical fitness all these, of course, were prime considerations in their
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selection. But the supremely important quality was their balanced
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temperament.
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It would need something stupendous, something almost unimaginable
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to most people, to flip such men into dramatic personality changes. That
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something, we have now established, was Alternative 3 and, perhaps more
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particularly, the night marish obscenities involved in the development and
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perfection of Alternative 3.
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We are not suggesting that the President of the United States has had
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personal knowledge of the terror and clinical cruelties which have been an
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integral part of the Operation, for that would make him directly responsible
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for murders and barbarous mutilations.
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We are convinced, in fact, that this is not the case. The President and
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the Russian leader, together with their immediate subordinates, have been
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concerned only with broad sweep of policy.
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They have acted in unison to ensure what they consider to be the best
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possible future for mankind. And the day to day details have been delegated
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to high level professionals.
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These professionals, we have now established, have been classifying
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people selected for the Alternative 3 operation into two categories: those
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who are picked as individuals and those who merely form part of a "batch
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consignment."
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There have been several "batch consignments" and it is the treatment
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meted out to most of these men and women which provides the greatest
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cause for outrage.
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No matter how desperate the circumstances may be$and we reluctantly
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recognize that they are extremely desperate$no humane society could
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tolerate what has been done to the innocent and the gullible.
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That view, fortunately, was taken by one man who was recruited into
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the Alternative 3 team three years ago. He was, at first, highly enthusiastic
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and completely dedicated to the Operation. However, he became revolted by
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some of the atrocities involved. He did not consider that, even in the
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prevailing circumstances, they could be justified.
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Three days after the transmission of that sensational television
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documentary, his conscience finally goaded him into action. He knew the
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appalling risk he was taking, for he was aware of what had happened to
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others who had betrayed the secrets of Alternative 3, but he made telephone
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contact with television reporter Colin Benson and offered to provide Benson
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with evidence of the most astounding nature.
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He was calling, he said, from abroad but he was prepared to travel to
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London. They met two days later. And he then explained to Benson that
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copies of most orders and memoranda, together with transcripts prepared
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from tapes of Policy Committee meetings, were filed in triplicate in
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Washington, Moscow and Geneva where Alternative 3 had its operational
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headquarters.
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The system had been instituted to ensure there was no
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misunderstanding between the principal partners. He occasionally had
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access to some of that material although it was often weeks or even months
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old before he saw it and he was willing to supply what he could to Benson.
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He wanted no money. He merely wanted to alert the public, to help stop the
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mass atrocities.
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Benson's immediate reaction, after he had assessed the value of this
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offer, was that Sceptre should mount a follow up programme, one which
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would expose the horrors of Alternative 3 in far greater depth.
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He argued bitterly with his superiors at Sceptre but they were adamant.
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The company was already in serious trouble with the government and there
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was some doubt about whether its licence would be renewed. They refused
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to consider the possibility of doing another programme. They had officially
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disclaimed the Alternative 3 documentary as a hoax and that was where the
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matter had to rest.
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Anyway, they pointed out, this character who'd come forward was
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probably a nut$ If you saw the documentary, you will probably realize that
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Benson is a stubborn man. His friends say he is pig obstinate. They also say
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he is a first class investigative journalist.
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He was angry about this attempt to suppress the truth and that is why
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he agreed to co-operate in the preparation of this book. That co-operation
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has been invaluable.
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Through Benson we met the telephone caller who we now refer to as
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Trojan. And that meeting resulted in our acquiring documents, which we
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will be presenting, including transcripts of tapes made at the most secret
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rendezvous in the world, thirty five fathoms beneath the ice cap of the
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Arctic.
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For obvious reasons, we cannot reveal the identity of Trojan. Nor can
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we give any hint about his function or status in the Operation.
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We are completely satisfied, however, that his credentials are authentic
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and that, in breaking his oath of silence, he is prompted by the most
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honourable of motives.
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He stands in relation to the Alternative 3 conspiracy in much the same
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position as the anonymous informant "Deep Throat" occupied in the
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Watergate affair. Most of the "batch consignments" have been taken from the
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area known as the Bermuda Triangle but numerous other locations have also
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been used.
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On October 6, 1975, the Daily Telegraph gave prominence to this
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story:
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The disappearance in bizarre circumstances in the past two weeks of
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20 people from small coastal communities in Oregon was being intensively
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investigated at the weekend amid reports of an imaginative fraud scheme
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involving a "flying saucer" and hints of mass murder.
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Sheriff's officers at Newport, Oregon, said that the 20 individuals had
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vanished without trace after being told to give away all their possessions,
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including their children, so that they could be transported in a flying saucer
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"by UFO to a better life."
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"Deputies under Mr. Ron Sutton, chief criminal investigator in
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surrounding Lincoln County, have traced the story back to a meeting on
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September 14 in a resort hotel, the Bayshore Inn at Waldport, Oregon$
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Local police have received conflicting reports as to what occurred (at the
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meeting).
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But while it is clear that the speaker did not pretend to be from outer
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space, he told the audience how their souls could be "saved through a UFO.
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"The hall had been reserved for a fee of $50 by a man and a woman who
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gave false names. Mr. Sutton said witnesses had described them as "fortyish,
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well groomed, straight types."
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The Telegraph said that "selected people would be prepared at a special
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camp in Colorado for life on another planet" and quoted Investigator Sutton
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as adding:
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"They were told they would have to give away everything, even their
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children. I'm checking a report of one family who supposedly gave away
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150-acre farm and three children."
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"We don't know if it's fraud or whether these people might be killed.
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There are all sorts of rumours, including some about human sacrifice and
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that this is sponsored by the (Charles) Manson family."
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"Most of the missing 20 were described as being "hippie types"
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although there were some older people among them."
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People of this calibre, we have now discovered, have been what is
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known as "scientifically adjusted" to fit them for a new role as a slave
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species.
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There have been equally strange reports of animals, particularly farm
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animals, disappearing in large numbers. And occasionally it appears that
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aspects of the Alternative 3 operation have been bungled, that attempts to
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lift "batch consignments" of humans or of animals have failed.
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On July 15, 1977, the Daily Mail under a "Flying Saucer" headline
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carried this story:
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Men in face masks, using metal detectors and a geiger counter,
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yesterday scoured a remote Dartmoor valley in a bid to solve a macabre
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mystery. Their search centred on marshy grassland where 15 wild ponies
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were found dead, their bodies mangled and torn.
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All appeared to have died at about the same time, and many of the bones
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have been inexplicably shattered. To add to the riddle, their bodies
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decomposed to virtual skeletons within only 48 hours.
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Animal experts confess they are baffled by the deaths at Cherry Brook
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Valley near Postbridge.
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Yesterday's search was carried out by members of the Devon
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Unidentified Flying Objects centre at Torquay who are trying to prove a link
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with outer space.
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They believe that flying saucers may have flown low over the area and
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created a vortex which hurled the ponies to their death. Mr. John Wyse,
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head of the four-man team, said:
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"If a spacecraft has been in the vicinity, there may still be detectable
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evidence. We wanted to see if there was any sign that the ponies had been
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shot but we have found nothing. This incident bears an uncanny
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resemblance to similar events reported in America."
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The Mail report concluded with a statement from an official
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representing The Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society and the Animal
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Defence Society:
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"Whatever happened was violent. We are keeping an open mind. I am
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fascinated by the UFO theory. There is no reason to reject that possibility
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since there is no other rational explanation."
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These, then, were typical of the threads, which inspired the original
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television investigation. It needed one person, however, to show how they
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could be embroidered into a clear picture.
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Without the specialist guidance of that person the Sceptre television
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documentary could never have been produced, and Trojan would never have
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contacted Colin Benson.
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And it would have been years, possibly seven years or even longer,
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before ordinary people started to suspect the devastating truth about this
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planet on which we live. That person, of course, is the old man$
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Section 2
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THEY Realize now that they should have killed the old man.
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That would have been the logical course to protect the secrecy of
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Alternative 3. It is curious, really, that they did not agree to his death on
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that Thursday in February for, as we have stated, they do use murder.
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Of course, it is not called murder, not when it is done jointly by the
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governments of America and Russia. It is an Act of Expediency.
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Many Acts of Expediency are believed to have been ordered by the
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sixteen men, official representatives of the pentagon and the Kremlin, who
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comprise the Policy Committee.
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Grotesque and apparently inexplicable slayings in various parts of the
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world in Germany and Japan, Britain and Australia are alleged to have been
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sanctioned by them.
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We have not been able to substantiate these suspicions and allegations
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so we merely record that an unknown number of people, including
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distinguished radio astronomer Sir William Ballantine, have been executed
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because of this astonishing agreement between the super-powers.
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Prominent politicians, including two in Britain, were among those who
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tried to prevent the publication of this book. They insisted that it is not
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necessary for you, and others like you, to be told the unpalatable facts.
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They argue that the events of the future are now inevitable, that there is
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nothing to be gained by prematurely unleashing fear.
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We concede that they are sincere in their views but we maintain that
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you ought to know. You have a right to know.
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Attemps were also made to neuter the television programme which first
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focused public attention on Alternative 3. Those attemps were partially
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successful. And, of course, after the programme was transmitted, when
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there was that spontaneous explosion of anxiety, Septre Television was
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forced to issue a formal denial.
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It had all been a hoax. That's what they were told to say. That's what
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they did say.
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Most people were then only too glad to be reassured. They wanted to
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be convinced that the programme had been devised as a joke, that it was
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merely an elaborate piece of escapist entertainment. It was more
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comfortable that way.
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In fact, the television researchers did uncover far more disturbing
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material than they were allowed to transmit. The censored information is
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now in our possession. And, as we have indicated, there was a great deal
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that Benson and the rest of the television team did not discover, not until
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after their programme had been screened.
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Copies of Alternative 3 are rare. There is a source in ENGLAND which
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we do not currently know, however, you may purchase an imported copy for
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about $11.00 from Metaphysical Book Store, 9511 E. Colfax, Aurora, CO
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80010 <data type="phoneNumber">(303) 341-7562</data>. Please mention that you got the address from VANGARD
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SCIENCES or the KeelyNet Bulletin Board System. Thanks.
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Placed in the public domain from the
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VANGARD SCIENCES archives on October 28 1989.
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Our mailing address is PO BOX 1031, Mesquite, TX 75150.
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Voice phone (Jerry <data type="phoneNumber">214-324-8741</data>...Ron <data type="phoneNumber">214-484-3189</data>
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KeelyNet <data type="phoneNumber">(214) 324-3501</data>
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<div>
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The Truth about Alternative 3
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from its author, Leslie Watkins
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(This article is taken from the $Windwords$ newsletter)
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address not available
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In our June issue, we told you about the controversial book Alternative
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3, by British author Leslie Watkins. In out attempt to find out if the
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shocking theories in the book were true, we called Avon Books, the
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American publisher; they said the book was out of print in the states. We
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called Penguin Books in London and found that it was listed on their
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NON-FICTION list. A senior editor there told us that it was officially
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classified as FICTION BASED ON FACT. The author's agent told us it was
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most definitely fiction. We wrote to the author himself to try to get the
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real story, and here is the letter he sent us.
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Dear Ms. Dittrich:
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Thank you for your letter, which reached me today. Naturally, I am
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delighted by your interest in Alternative 3 and by the fact that you plan to
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sell it in the Windwords bookstore. I will certainly cooperate in any way I
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can.
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The correct description of Alternative 3 was given to you by the
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representative from Penguin Books. The book is based on fact, but uses that
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fact as a launchpad for a HIGH DIVE INTO FICTION. In answer to your
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specific questions:
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1) There is no astronaut named Grodin.
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2) There is no Sceptre Television and the reported Benson is also
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fictional.
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3) There is no Dr. Gerstein.
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4) Yes, a "documentary" was televised in June 1977 on Anglia
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Television, which went out to the entire national network in Britain.
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It was called Alternative 3 and was written by David Ambrose and
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produced by Christopher Miles (whose names were on the book for
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contractual reasons). This original TV version, which I EXPANDED
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IMMENSELY for the book, was ACTUALLY A HOAX which had been
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scheduled for transmission on April Fools' Day. Because of certain
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problems in finding the right network slot, the transmission was
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delayed.
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The TV program did cause a tremendous uproar because viewers
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refused to believe it was fiction. I initially took the view that the
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basic premise was so way-out, particularly the way I aimed to
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present it in the book, that no one would regard it as non-fiction.
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Immediately after publication, I realized I was totally wrong. In fact,
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the amazing mountains of letters from virtually all parts of the world
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including vast numbers from highly intelligent people in positions of
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responsibility-convinced me that I had ACCIDENTALLY trespassed
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into a range of top-secret truths.
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Documentary evidence provided by many of these
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correspondents decided me to write a serious and COMPLETELY
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NON-FICTION sequel. Unfortunately, a chest containing the bulk of
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the letters was among the items which were mysteriously LOST IN
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TRANSIT some four years when I moved from London, England, to
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Sydney, Australia, before I moved on to settle in New Zealand. For
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some time after Alternative 3 was originally published, I have
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reason to suppose that my home telephone was being tapped and my
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contacts who were experienced in such matters were convinced
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that certain intelligence agencies considered that I probably knew
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too much.
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So, summing up, the book is FICTION BASED ON FACT. But I now feel
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that I inadvertently got VERY CLOSE TO A SECRET TRUTH. I hope this is of
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some help to you and I look forward to hearing from you again.
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With best wishes,
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Leslie Watkins
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Unfortunately, Alternative 3 is no longer available. We (Windwords)
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bought all the remaining copies from the British publisher and those quickly
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sold out. If the book is reprinted, you can be sure we'll let you know and
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we'll carry it in the Windwords bookstore.</conspiracyFile> |