SUBJECT: BO GRITZ SAYS....                                   FILE: UFO2446





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Date prepared: 01/29/94
Contributed by: Don Ecker/ UFO Magazine

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     Subj: BO GRITZ SAYS....

     Editor:

     I've served most of my adult life as an intelligence operative
   (Intelligence Officer, Delta Force; Commander, Special Operations,
   Viet-Nam: Commander Special Forces, Latin America; Principal Agent,
   NSC-ISA). Unlike William Cooper, I can prove this identity. I have
   been a Pilot for more than 30 years. My assignments have taken me all
   over the globe including Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, et
   al. Much of this time has been spent out in the open under the stars.
   I have never witnessed a UFO in the classic saucer sense, but I
   believe they exist nevertheless (Even Jimmy Carter says so). While in
   England, enroute to Bangladesh, I bought and read Above Top Secret,
   which strengthened my personal convictions.

     This past month the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and
   National Intelligence Counter Intelligence Association included UFO
   reports (Belgian Air Force Colonel Wilfried de Brouwer) in their
   monthly INSUMS (Intelligence Summaries).

     As a Chemical, Biological, Nuclear trained officer, I know that
   "the" government lied about gassing sheep in Montana with GB-Agent,
   infecting San Francisco with a virus, and the proposed use of
   underground nuclear demolitions to construct a new canal in
   Nicaragua. They denied Frank Powers U-2 over Russia, SR-71, and
   Stealth. Why wouldn't they cover-up UFOs (classic or otherwise)?

     I obviously don't know much about flying saucers, even though I
   have more than a dozen friends, including pilots, who are eye
   witnesses to UFO sightings. I know a lot more about people and I
   certainly know the intelligence system. I have examined military
   records on Bill Cooper. I have spoken with him and listened to him on
   telephone recorded audio tape. I feel compelled to add my opinion to
   that of George Knapp, Ed De Mar and others. I am absolutely convinced
   that Cooper is a charlatan. There is no doubt that he has information
   concerning government cover-up, which is easily vacuumed from the
   presentations and publications of others.

     When I retumed from Burma's Golden Triangle with videotape of
   overlord Khun Sa accusing U.S. officials of being his best customers,
   Cooper started saying that drugs were funding the secret government
   UFO campaign.

     Only God and Cooper know if he actually observed a UFO, but I don't
   buy his story about being a part of Naval Intelligence. I have a Top
   Secret Crypto clearance with access to Special Intelligence, which is
   clearly imprinted on my records. None of the Cooper file shows him to
   have these basic intelligence clearances, without which he would be
   denied access to classified materials.

     I also have been granted coded clearances which open doors when
   combined with a "need to know" to highly selected ''compartments'' of
   information. If Cooper were real, he would have long ago referenced
   the proper codes that deal with information he says was available to
   him. I believe Bill Cooper is a fraud. There is enough wrong with the
   government. Cooper types only hurt honest efforts to gain truth. His
   fare would be more accurately billed as ''entertainment.''

     As Chief of Special Activities on the Army General Staff, I
   regularly briefed the U.S. Army Chief of Staff and the other
   generals. I know and have experience working with Admiral Isaac Kidd
   (former Commander in Chief, Atlantic) and his staff.

     There were no enlisted men on the "briefing team." Field grade
   officers (Major and up) normally furnish information to these key
   decision makers. Classifed information is carefully guarded,
   especially the compartmented information that Cooper refers to.

     Without the proper coded access and a need to know, you don't get
   in!

     I don't buy Bill's "testing" the government by mixing up code names
   (Majestic vis Majority). Every time someone produces information
   contradicting Cooper, he changes, adds to, or reveals yet another
   personal revelation he read in the cloaked documents way back when.
   St. John should have had such access. Cooper has more twists than a
   snake. He is also dangerous. I listened to a telephone answer tape
   wherein Cooper badgered, bribed, threatened, cried, and then later
   allegedly slashed the tires on a man's car.

     Cooper talks and acts like a number of other fakes I know. They
   seem to want someone, anyone, to do anything that might threaten them
   since to be that important would enhance their own self-image. In the
   absence of real threats they conjure them up. I don't begrudge
   whatever popularity or success he may garner- that is show biz. But I
   do feel he is hurting the credibility and honesty of sincere
   researchers at a time when we are facing a true peril from within.
   The secret government needs to be exposed and expunged before it
   turns us into economic slaves through King George's "New World
   Order.'' Cooperites dull our cutting edge of truth. I exhort William
   Cooper to stop his Bush-lip and focus his energy and resources on
   unmasking the real villains.

     This is the first time I have written a letter to the editor.
   Strange that with all that is going on, it would be to a publication
   I haven't read, about a person I hope-if there are ETs-will soon be
   beamed up.

     Please send me info on your magazine.  It wasn't on our Pentagon
   reading list, but maybe it should be.

                             James "Bo" Gritz
                             Center for Action
                             Box 472-HCR31
                             Sandy Valley, NV 89019

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