Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee
 
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Dr. Steven Greer will appear on Art Bell's "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 Admiral James Woolsey 
regarding their 3-hour, 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.

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.

Admiral 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 Intelligence: The Evidence and Implications".  Dr. Greer's written response to this disputation is attached below and will be expanded upon during the Bell program Friday night.

Dr. Greer's response to the Woolsey/Petersen letter:

Tonight I was asked by the editor of a small 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 News.

Mr. Woolsey and the others question the accuracy (or manners) of my depiction 
of this meeting in the introduction of my new book "Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Evidence and Implications" 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."

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 ecosystem.

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
Email:  DrGreer@cs.com
Phone: 540-456-8302