Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 14 May 92 17:37:15 GMT
Subject: Coverups (was Re: Apollo Mission Buzzed)

lin...@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:

> The standard response (which I do not find at all satisfactory) to
> these kind of conspiracy theories is that all governments are
> incapable of keeping anything secret for long, so they would certainly
> be unable to maintain a conspiracy of silence about anything
> interesting like unknown crafty aliens.

[ numerous examples deleted ]

The hard part (which is why it's so unsatisfactory) is figuring out
whether information leaks are the exception or the rule.

For instance, consider all the people it must have taken to fake the
birth certificate, the pregnancy, the kid, the presidency (or to be
precise, the first ladiency), the porn films, the telephoto nudes, and
the fake Enquirer articles, and tell me how it never got out that
Jackie is a man in disguise.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil

ObUL: The post office junks all the mail to Shergold; the news stories
about sorting through it for bills are a CIA experiment in information
control.