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In May 1990, in a public debate, Dr. Dan Burisch had
a spirited encounter with George Knapp, an investigative reporter for
the KLAS-TV I-Team in Las Vegas. Mr. Knapp may be known to the general
reader already as the reporter that Bob Lazar went to in 1989 to tell
his story about his experience at Area 51, just north of Las Vegas. That
experience may have permanently soured Mr. Knapp towards Dr. Burisch,
although he may have had just cause at the time for taking umbrage as
he did. During that time, Dr. Burisch was precluded from speaking publicly
and forthrightly about his work at Area 51 and for Majestic 12 by his
National Security Oath – an Oath that allowed for his own death
warrant were he to speak openly about certain subjects. Now, today, Dr.
Burisch is undergoing an extensive debriefing in which he will recount
his lifetime experiences and work for the Majestic Twelve (MJ-12) and
the superior group the Committee of the Majority, which was disbanded
officially in 2002 and all ties finally terminated in 2003.
To bring the subject matter back; in January, 2003,
Bill Hamilton heard from George Knapp about the more recent developments
(at that time) in the case of Dr. Burisch; as of this writing, in October
2005, Mr. Hamilton is unable to recall whether he had sent an inquiring
email to Mr. Knapp to look into the story earlier, or whether Mr. Knapp
had sent an unsolicited email on Jan 16, 2003 which he claimed that “Dan
and his friends have been peddling this same story for ten years.” In
either event, it is clear that Mr. Knapp had already made up his mind
that “Dan and his friends” were attempting to “peddle” his “story” for
at least a decade, and was unable to grasp the possibility that the “leaks” were
authentic, from individuals associated with Dan’s projects, who
unbeknownst to Dan, were quietly trying to engender some investigative
journalism to ‘tell the world’ what was really going on in
the heart of the Coverup. No matter; Mr. Knapp apparently did nothing
at that time and also did nothing in the summer of the following year.
In July 2004, an open letter was posted by Mr. Knapp
in the Las Vegas Mercury, included in this writer’s subsequent
email to him:
Hello George;
I understand you saw Dan Burisch and his wife at a local eatery
late last year and stared at him until his wife had to mention it
to the manager. I know of your history with Bob Lazar, and thank
you for helping bring that story to the general public.
This email was prompted by the following snip posted on the GLP
forum this morning, and I'd like to confirm it indeed came from you
if possible:
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Las Vegas Mercury
Thursday, July 08, 2004
By George Knapp
A Las Vegas man who claims to have a doctorate
in microbiology is making a minor splash in UFO circles.
Dr. Dan Burisch, formerly known as Dr. Danny
Crain, claims to have worked at a secret Nevada military facility,
where it was his job to take tissue samples from an extraterrestrial
being.
Crain has been trying to peddle this tall tale
for about 14 years now.
Knappster believes his claimed Ph.D. is phony,
since Crain was working for the state Parole and Probation Department
at the time he supposedly earned the degree.
UFO Magazine, a respected periodical in this
wacky field, is working on a story about "Dr." Crain´s
credibility problems.
Anyone out there remember him, either from
his days at P&P or from UNLV, or from his stint as a Sahara Hotel
security guard?
Drop me a note if you do.
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Since I know you are a veteran journalist of many years standing,
I presume you have done some basic research on the subject at hand,
Dr. Dan Burisch. Which means that you must have read the materials
thoroughly at the following URL:
[original URL redacted; material now available at HYPERLINKhttp://www.danburisch.info
Which is why I am puzzled by this assertion that Dr. Burisch is "trying
to peddle this tall tale for about 14 years." Who is doing
the peddling? Isn't Dr Burisch a 'reluctant witness' that was drawn-out
by the leakage of the now-infamous Q94-109a document? And who has
sufficient awareness to label this a 'tall tale'? True, the implications
are indeed mind-boggling, but as an objective journalist surely you
can use the term "alleged" rather than exhibiting such
bias before you've researched the supposed facts.
As to whether the "field" of Ufology is 'wacky', it seems
that the field is only defined by the clumsy attempts of some that
don't do their homework, namely this UFO Magazine, which appears
to be a fifth-column of the Coverup. For that publication to make
the blatant claim that they have a photo of a "J-rod" borders
on perjury. I know the history of that photo, and if you need further
confirmation of its inauthenticity you should contact Bill Hamilton,
former director of Skywatch and the one man who has more than ample
evidence of Dr. Burisch's biography. If you'd like his email for
direct correspondence, I'm sure he would be more than happy to hear
from you.
So please, if possible, can you confirm whether this post from today's
Mercury originated with you? Are you in fact researching the story
of Dr. Dan Burisch and the wider story of what his work implies?
If so, there is a group of citizens from around the globe who had
many conferences between last November and the end of May with Dr
Burisch, including live webcam conferences, live meetings, and science
lectures with him. No "expose" of this story would be complete
without a discussion with this group, and the gravity of the story's
implications warrant that.
Please let me know how we can be of assistance.
Regards,
Dondep
George replied later that day:
Subject: RE: Dr. Dan Burisch
I was told that I had recently been in the
same restaurant as Dan, but I
only heard about if afterward. I never saw him, certainly didn't
stare him
down, and am not even sure I would recognize him anymore. I haven't
seen him in more than ten years.
it would be interesting to hear the name of
the restaurant and the manager.
That could be checked out.
George then replied again the next day:
Subject: RE: Dr. Dan Burisch
You can believe what you want, but Dan Crain
has been actively and directly promoting this stuff for many years, trying to get someone to buy
into it, while pretending to be the poor reluctant witness who is risking his life to tell all.
I'm not going to be covering any group discussions about the implications of his work since it is a total crock. If he has got you 'snowed' based on bits and pieces of UFO mumbo jumbo that he has appropriated here and there,
then that's your problem.
I don't mean to be too harsh, but believe me,
I worked on this stuff for a long time. It is my firm believe that Dan and his associates are
playing mind games, either for ego or because they're meant to be a distraction.
Thanks for writing. You are certianly welcome to send along any other information that you think I should see, but I'm not going to get into a running debate about DC's legitimacy.
To which I replied:
George;
Thanks for responding. And you are so right about the "mind
games". But when you say Dan Burisch (yes, he changed his name
last decade to the surname of his step-daughter's last name) is peddling "mumbo
jumbo" etc, remember that he was also some kind of minister
in a disinfo cover "church" called the 'Sanctuary of the
Golden Pedal', designed to produce scoffing by naive prying eyes
that might actually get close enough to learning about the projects
he worked on. Are you aware of this?
Having had a front-row seat,
in a manner of speaking, I can assure you that this is the most far-reaching
and complex story in the 'field' to have ever come along. I'd defy
anyone to put all the pieces together to support a hypothetical claim
that would so cavalierly claim it's "mumbo jumbo".
Dan
himself rues the fact that his co-worker only leaked q94-109a, without
the even more-important q94-109b, c, and d. I'm not about to attempt
to validate every insinuation of the story, whether it be the alleged
stargates, the 'benevolence' of the J-rods, the placement of the
Lotus 'model' in order to be found in the future, the 'oval mass
of energy' that is threatening earth at this very moment, the DCTP,
etc.... much of this material wasn't even given to Dan until very
recently. I have received quite a bit of info from some of the security/communications
personnel that perform sundry duties for Majestic, and have checked
and re-checked much of the info. What I'm saying, in essence, is
that there is far too much smoke here for there not to be a major
fire that should require investigation by the duly-elected authorities.
Disclosure isn't going to be handed on a silver platter to any one
individual, hoping to ride it to his/her personal glory, but through
careful analysis of a massive amount of documentation.
There is no "running
debate" among those who know he's legitimate; it's a running
debate about whether the projects he worked on and discusses are
what they claim to be. The biggest project of all is already on public
record; Project Preserve Destiny. I'm sure you've read "Above
Black:Project Preserve Destiny" by Sgt. Dan Sherman. [http://www.aboveblack.com]
What's your take on that? It's the same project DBCB worked on; supposedly
a preparation for the coming cataclysms.
The whole paradigm fits,
but the trick is filtering the dis/misinfo out. I truly hope that's
what you are trying to do, and not merely smear a good-hearted scientist
who, despite working for the Coverup, has tried to make amends and
let the 'interested few' know of the reality behind this Coverup.
Thanks for the dialog; hope we can do some good with you.
Regards,
Dondep
Despite a follow-up email by myself to Mr. Knapp, including
the specific information that the name of the restaurant was the “Souper
Salad” where he allegedly stared so hard at Dr. and Mrs. Burisch
that she had the manager make a note to that effect, that was pretty
much it for my correspondence with Mr. Knapp during 2004. Even though
other affidavits then surfaced that answered his call for information
that would ‘verify’ Dr Burisch/Danny Crain, I didn’t
hear back and my attention was taken up by our legal case and the preparations
for it.
Until September of this year (2005), that is. It was
only then that a new Knapp knoise made itself known when Mr. Knapp made
a statement that was posted on the Stargate public forum. There was an
open letter posted on Fri, Sept 9 at 8:20 p.m. PST. As it was made public
at that time by other parties, I reproduce it here as it is already now
part of the public record:
From: HYPERLINK "mailto:victorgm@webtv.net" (Victor
Martinez)
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: HYPERLINK "mailto:GKnapp@klastv.com" GKnapp@klastv.com,
(plus 64 other individuals, most of them well-known in the ‘ufology’ community)
Subject: Open letter to the crazed Burisch lunatic
cultists from GeorgeKnapp!
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:14:25 -0700
From: GEORGE KNAPP, Investigative
Journalist, KLAS-TV
To: OPEN LETTER TO THE MENTALLY
DISEASED, KOOL-AID DRINKING, ZEN-BUDDHIST, HIPPY SPACE CADETS,
NEW AGE CRAZED DAN BURISCH DEATH CULTISTS!
From: HYPERLINK "mailto:GKnapp@klastv.com" GKnapp@klastv.com
(George Knapp)
Date: Fri, Sep 9, 2005, 8:20 p.m. PST
VICTOR: I will respond to this claptrap, BUT with considerable
reluctance. It's pretty clear from the postings here and elsewhere
that whatever I say WON'T matter a bit. Dan Crain and his always
creative PR
team can make up whatever nutty story they want to, and no matter
how
many times they are CAUGHT IN OBVIOUS LIES, they always resort to
the
ultimate defense - that all of this has been manufactured and
manipulated by dark and all-powerful forces.
It's the equivalent of saying, "Yeah, it may not make sense
to you, but
that's because we have magic beans!" The magic beans
explain
everything. How do you argue with THAT?!
I'm also reluctant to spend too much
time on this because it's clearthey REALLY get a kick out of it!
They've been peddling this story for 16 years now, but in all that
time poor, heroic Dan has somehow managed to escape assassination
while openly peddling fantastic "secrets" from a supposedly
ultra-super-duper secret program! Come on, does that really
seem remotely believable?!
Aldrich Ames went to federal prison for life for revealing ACTUAL
SECRETS that were far less grandiose than Dan's imaginary ramblings,
yet Crain continues to write books, appear in public, chat on the
Internet, and add new and astounding details to his mythology on
an almost daily basis, and no one in big bad Washington has the resources
or will to get him to tone it down a bit?!
In a post-9/11 world where hundreds of people are imprisoned indefinitely
without any charges being filed, and where federal agents are empowered
to bug phones, investigate library records, and hold secret tribunals,
DOES IT REALLY MAKE SENSE that Crain can sell DVDs in which he reveals
supposedly classified information?!
People who will believe this, as absurd as it is on its face, won't
care one tiny bit about information that is in direct conflict with
their core beliefs. This is a MATTER OF FAITH for them. It is their
religion. Crain's
publicists can issue whatever response they choose, and it will be
accepted by the folks WHO WANT TO BELIEVE.
I used to think that Dan and his cohorts were common but creative
hustlers, trying to ratchet up some interest in their assorted books
and tapes. While that suspicion certainly rings true, I also
believe they're doing it because it MAKES THEM FEEL IMPORTANT. It's
like some kind of live, interactive video game or role-playing fantasy
for them. They've created this parallel world where their otherwise
INSIGNIFICANT LIVES HAVE MEANING and purpose, and they're all really
important figures who are BATTLING EVIL for the good of mankind.
Maybe they didn't get enough respect during their Dungeons and Dragons
phase. Maybe they all sit around smoking doobies and laughing about
the next round of bullshit they will foist upon their limited audience.
(If that's what's going on, I would almost have to tip my hat to
them because it's clear they are having fun, while making a few bucks
on the side.)
I've wondered whether it [Burisch] is some sort of OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED
DISINFORMATION EFFORT something that is MEANT TO DISTRACT SERIOUS
INVESTIGATORS from more worthwhile pursuits, a tactic that has proven
successful in the UFO field in the past.
But then it occurs to me that surely the dastardly minds at the CIA/DIA/Illuminati/MJ-12
scouting combine could surely have recruited a more credible and
less dysfunctional group of covert operatives that this collection
of social misfits. These are the kids who were always the last ones
to be picked for volleyball during gym class!
Now, they've created a make believe world where they all get to play
James Bond or Pussy Galore, and there's no way that logic or anything
else is going to make them return to their other, less interesting
lives. Sorry
to ramble, but that's just my take on it.
As for this material mentioned below, it certainly fits their pattern.
They cherry-pick one or two tidbits that are real, and then they
weave them into an Easter Bunny tale that is more to their liking. Again,
it won't matter what I say about what REALLY happened because it
will only give them new ammo, but here goes:
I NEVER saw any travel manifest that listed Dan Crain's name on it.
I have NO idea WHAT they are talking about. I did receive an
extraordinary amount of unsolicited mail from several anonymous
sources, all of it about Dan, all of it of dubious value.
Admittedly, one or two of the letters were intriguing, but I eventually
concluded that Dan and friends were the source of EVERY bit of it. I
don't know why they are going to the trouble of making up the bit
about the travel itinerary, but it's their show.
I've never heard this chestnut about a "Special Access Program" in
which participants were "in a special ritual category for 27
years." Please.... Why 27 years? Why not 26 years and
8 months, and they only get to see the sunlight on Groundhog's Day?!
Bob Lazar NEVER worked at Tonopah. I don't care how many
phony names or supposedly reliable sources you care to fabricate
to say otherwise, but it's just NOT true. I've known Bob longer
than ANY person who's likely to read this stream and have been over
his story more times than you can imagine, and no matter what anyone
thinks about his allegations, this little detail WAS MADE UP BY SOMEONE
other than Bob.
The mysterious "Joseph G." was NOT attached to Flight Control
at Nellis. He worked for the Public Information Office. His name
is Joe Girouard. He was, in effect, a P.R. operative for Nellis. He
also described himself to me as "Dan Crain's best friend." They
were close enough that Joe asked Dan to be the best man at his wedding. Joe
also became the P.R. agent for Dan. It's true that he helped to organize
and promote the Horizons event.
In retrospect, Joe and I agree that the event seemed to have
been designed to get some public attention for his pal Danny. After
Crain got married and cut off all contact with Joe and with the Crain
family, Joe went to work as the press laison for Nevada's Lt. Governor. My
guess is that his name is now being mentioned by Dan's flock because
I already made it public in an article published last year in "UFO
Magazine." (You
can look it up, unless, the records have mysteriously disappeared.)
Joe knows a heck of a lot about Dan. The message from the Crainologists
is almost certainly a form of preventive damage control. They are
WORRIED about what Joe might reveal in the future, so they are recreating
him as a shadowy military guy without a last name. Nice touch.
I NEVER confronted Dan and his lovely bride with any DOD manifest. I
don't believe I ever met Deborah at all. I only had a few face-to-face
chats with Dan, and there was NO Deborah at any of them. I
know that 1990 IS the year that Deborah met Dan, since I have recently
retrieved a copy of her criminal record. At the time, Dan was
working full time as a probation officer (while simulteanously
obtaining his PhD in NewYork and bonding with J-Rod up at Papoose).
Deborah was ordered by a judge to meet regularly with her probation
officer following her conviction on drug trafficking charges, and
that's how their love blossomed. A few years ago, a story surfaced
among Crain followers that I encountered the happy couple at a Las
Vegas restaurant and that I stared at them so intently that Dan asked
the manager to have me removed.
If you believe that a Las Vegas restaurant would kick out a TV
reporter because of unbridled stariing, then I don't know what to
say.
After seeing so many recent photos of Dan on various Web sites,
I would certainly recognize him if I saw him, but at the time, I
wasn't exactly fixated on his various fairy tales and don't think
I would have known him from the waiter. (Of course, I was preoccupied
at the time. The Iluminati ordered me to eat a grilled cheese sandwich
that may or may not have contained a top-secret microfilm.)
The stuff about Lazar and Crain working on similar projects or
somehow interacting is wishful thinking on someone's part. If Lazar
worked on "avionics," it's news to me.
Not that any of this matters one bit. It's just fuel for their
IMAGINARY FIRE.
GEORGE KNAPP
Investigative Journalist
KLAS-TV
Las Vegas, NV
Despite the obvious and glaring prejudice and slanderous
comments regarding those public citizens investigating the truth or lack
of it in what has now become the ‘saga’ of Dr. Dan Burisch,
along with a subjective bias that should preclude any attempt by the
author of the above email from ‘covering’ the story in an
objective manner, there is a serious and actionable libelous and slanderous
comment made concerning Mrs. Burisch that she took objection to.
Following this post, Deborah Burisch called Rob Tompkins
on the eve of Sept. 9 - he is the Executive Director of KLAS
TV 8. It was approximately 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. that she called the
newsroom there at Channel 8, receiving the newsroom editor on the phone,
namely, "Blair" - a male. [She] pressed on him to get Tompkins
on the phone, of which after a minute or so, he did. She then advised
Tompkins that she was extremely upset that Knapp would stoop so low as
to misrepresent someone like he had on the email that was written. In
the post on the above date Mr. Knapp stated "Deborah was ordered
by a judge to meet regularly with her probation officer following her
drug trafficking (incorrect) charges, and that's how their love
blossomed". Tompkins advised her, after she expressed her unhappiness
with this incorrect characterization, that his boss Bob Stodal was out
of town until Monday. He said he would be in Mr. Stodal's office first
thing Monday morning to discuss this situation regarding what Mr. Knapp
had done. This was of course, an untruth. After not hearing from Mr.
Stodal by Tuesday afternoon, she called him back. He said that he didn't
work until the evenings, and he would be speaking to Mr. Stodal that
evening. When she didn't hear from him by the next day (Wednesday), she
called Mr. Tompkins back. He said that he had discussed this issue at
Channel 8 and they felt that they had nothing to apologize for. He said
that she would not be hearing anything more about this. Period.
(Apparently the management of KLASTV Channel 8 of Las
Vegas, Nevada, believe it is okay for one of their ‘investigative
journalists’ to make libelous and wild accusations against not
only specific individuals and whole groups of people, but that it is
okay to allow them to concoct and air a story that is obviously prejudiced,
as these exchanges are part of the “run-up to the November sweeps” which
Mr. Knapp seems so eager to sacrifice truth to for ratings.)
Following a series of telephone calls and emails between
Mrs. Burisch and Marci McDowell, and Mr. Knapp, it was agreed they would
meet and “go on the record” for him for his upcoming “story”.
However, things changed abruptly after a short email exchange between
Mr. Blair (better known by his avatar “Boomerang”) and Mr.
Knapp. Mr. Blair, who had received an invitation by Marci McDowell to
come to Las Vegas to witness the GPs in action, then emailed Mr. Knapp
to invite him to lunch while he was in town and he could confirm and
corroborate some of the issues surrounding the case of Dr. Burisch. Mr.
Knapp, however, chose to use the opportunity to respond that his schedule
was quite busy, people were always after him to “cover stories”,
and intimated that Ms. McDowell and Mrs. Burisch were eaglerly ‘chasing
him’ in effect to ‘get their story publicized’. This
was a blatant twisting of the situation surrounding having Ms. McDowell
and Mrs. Burisch going ‘on the record’ to counter the incorrect
and false statements that Mr. Knapp himself had presented.
After hearing what George had to say to Mr. Blair’s
generous offer to meet for lunch while in town to verify the Ganesh Particles
at work, Marci became convinced that Mr. Knapp was prejudiced even at
this late stage and was possibly out to carry through a ‘smear’ campaign,
to compensate for having been so bitterly denied the real story back
in 1990. Here is what she then had to say to Mr. Knapp, a copy of which
was posted on the public internet forum of note to this story:
Mr. Knapp,
In person via telephone, you were polite, but behind my back you
sent the following statement to a friend of mine ....." So when
I get what I perceive to be some sort of pressure, applied by several
people, on something as minor-league as this, I am not patient. Yours
was the fourth of fifth message I had received
in a twelve-hour period urging me to accept this offer for an interview,
something I never requested in the first place."
I guess I was mistaken; I was under the impression that you had
made a serious call for information regarding Dr. Burisch's Ph.D.
And even when we spoke one-on-one you seemed genuinely interested:
I said "it [the meeting] sounds wonderful, looking forward to
it" to which you responded "me too". I had no idea
until your email that you considered this meeting to be a trivial
bother.
If meeting the one person who could shed light and give a first
hand accounting of the matter you claim to be investigating is such
a burden for you, I must assume that you really had no interest in
taking an unbiased approach to your investigation. It's clear you
prefer to continue to sling mud and present blatantly false statements
about Dr. Burisch's case, such as those you gave to the UFO Magazine
last year, or those you made concerning Ms. Burisch (which prompted
her complaint to your superiors last month).
Deborah Burisch has informed me that she has decided not to sit
an interview with you now - saying, among other things, that you
do not deserve a face to face interview with her. She said, "he
had one last chance, and he blew it". So, this email is being
sent to notify you that the interview and meeting scheduled for Friday
October 14, 2005 at 10:30 am is herewith cancelled.
I honestly believed that you finally decided to take a more balanced
approach to your research of Dr. Burisch's case. That's why I convinced
Ms. Burisch to give you another chance. Perhaps people will now understand
why Dr. Burisch has flatly refused to ever sit an interview with
you. Anyway his wife now says the same thing. I wonder how long it
is going to be before the community at large recognizes what is going
on under your facade.
Soon, sir, you will have nothing upon which to base your stories
about Dr. Burisch except the musings of that covey of schoolteachers
in the UK which so impressed you recently.
I had planned to bring KLAS-TV a great deal of documentation, including
the comments of an American medical doctor who also holds a Ph.D
degree in neurophysiology who went the record last year with the
following comment about Dr. Burisch's work: he said, "It would
be foolish for me to ask about a specific area of molecular biology
in which I am not as advanced as is he (Dan Burisch): his writings
on profound biochemical and genetic postulates are beyond my single
medical school course in pathophysiology...". I also had planned
to bring extensive information concerning Dr. Burisch's work on the
remediation of cancer tumors using taurine chloramine - your sarcastic
past remarks about Chlorox set aside for the moment - and could even
have shown you original sworn affidavits attesting to Dr. Burisch's
work in secure facilities, his Ph.D and other topics germane to your
investigation. But clearly, this kind of input would fly in the face
of your 'style'.
You know George, when it does come time for the full truth to come
out, you've written yourself and KLAS-TV right out of this story.
Sincerely,
Marcia A. McDowell, M.A.
Representative
To truly understand its potential impact on how a
journalist could show such bias as many can readily see, the reader should
know the facts of that weekend in May 1990 when Dan (then Dan Crain,
as this was before his name change) first met George in public debate:
In May of 1990, George had received some letters from
Fran C. and Rose H., living on Channel 10 Drive, close by where Dan lived
at the time, about Dan being picked up and saluted, etc. The topic,
in the Hacienda (the Horizon's 1990 expo) that day and at that time was,
of all things, the government coverup, and the panelists were discussing
if there was any evidence for such a coverup when Dan (a ‘company
man’ at the time) cast doubt on it! Knapp then openly challenged
Dan that he had letters and some evidence (as he put it) that Dan was ‘part
of the saucer program at Area 51’. The shocked audience began
verbally attacking, asking whether Dan was a gov plant. Dan, wearing
a blue suit, white shirt, and red silk tie ...said, “Oh no, I am
not a gov plant!”, at which Knapp continued his assault.
Unknown
to him, Dale (Dr. Etheridge) and Dan had an ALF doll in a brown paper
bag and Dale raised his voice stating that he was going to turn Dan in
and had the goods on him. The audience gasped! He said it
was time for Dan to tell everyone the truth about the coverup. (Of course,
Dr. Dale Etheridge had NO IDEA Dan really WAS a gov’t. scientist
working for black-ops.) He produced the paper bag by handing
it to Dan under the table. Dan then produced the bag and said that
he was going to turn over his evidence. Mr. Knapp approached
the table and Dan then produced the ALF doll and gave it to Knapp.
Joseph
Girouard was aware that this was going to happen as he and Dan had hatched
the idea a week ahead, when Dan was speaking to the Young Astronauts
at Dr. Lonnie Hammargren's residence. Dan actually used the doll
in that presentation to the kids and we are holding that evidence
on tape. Knapp, shaken, backed away, while others got angry
stating that it was not a joke and then Knapp sat on the base right in
front of the American Flag, which was positioned to the left of
the panel's table (looking at the panel from the audience). Dan
was positioned next to the end position on the right of the panel (from
the same perspective). When George sat down, Dan said (in an aggressive
and serious and attacking tone) something like, "That's right, George,
it isn't a joke! Turn around George! You can sit in front
of the Flag but have you looked at her lately? She is beautiful
isn't she, George? You need to understand that if someone is not
supposed to talk about a subject, THEY DON’T!"
According
to reports, Mr. Knapp apparently just sat there and burned. Then someone else
brought up another topic and the panel just moved its discussion.
What we see here is a singular moment, a searing one,
that probably permanently prejudiced George to Dan’s story. In
some ways, it’s a relief for the reader or viewer to see how George
Knapp came by his stated disbelief in Dan’s “story”,
having been treated that way when in reality Dan even then had admitted
to something even as he honored his oath. I believe this is what “J” referred
to in his letter to Bill Hamilton in May 2004 [link
to come] where he
speaks of how Dan was given a small piece of ‘test’ information
early on to see how he would handle it. He apparently showed a ‘propensity
for telling the truth’, while also exercising self-censorship – particularly
when it came to issues that would truly hurt the security of the nation.
Perhaps Dan was “the one that got away” for George, since
he had been rebuffed and in a most rebuking manner.
Of course, Mr. Knapp has made the valid observation
that it isn’t the story of Deb, or Marci, or myself, or all the
many other avatars, but of Dr Dan Burisch, but even there he errs. It ‘s
the truths of what lie at the heart of Dan Burisch’s work that
are the REAL story. Yet to disclose these most amazing things isn’t
what some might think would be so easy. First, the sheer amount of information
that basically has to be downloaded from Dan in a manner and format accessible
to the average reader is a monumental undertaking. Even now as this is
typed, this ‘Debriefing’ is ongoing, and some days are more
intense than others. George is now trying to seize this moment to fit
his own agenda’s timeline, whether or not it might jeapordize the
Disclosure that is coming for want of careful planning. In fact, he’s
so much as stated this would be for the “November sweeps."
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