 Extraterrestrial Phenomena
Political Action Committee
X-PPAC and Paradigm Research Group
Joint Press Release
September 24, 1999
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.
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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