AN EARTHLY EXPLANATION? CIA MUST HAVE BRAINWASHED YOU

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November 11, 2016
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March 8, 1999
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STATINTL Sanitized .- Approv ATLANTA, OA. CONSTITUTION Front Edit Other % Page Page Page 11 Date: CPYRGHT' iJFQ's, for short. Well, lie'g right. I wasn't aware that UFO's were bet-. ling to be a dangerous prob- lcln. I do remember that a couple of years ago there was a lot of uproar in the papers about flying saucers, but every time these phenom- ena were investigated, they turned out to be something else, such as a' weather bal- loon or an airplane. ' So I quit worrying about CPYRGHT r, n ~Fl: cs,-?e Y C Y 1;r, c Z' i4t, .An, Earthly Explanation? . CI A Must, Have Brainwashed You next ew rrion t is watching the slow and gentle onrush of spring-leaving the problems of Pana- ' ma and Cuba and Laos and Congo and Viet Nam up to somebcrly else to frel??p another pro em gets tossed into my lap. A man named John Laval, who lives in 'Mota- wan, N.J., writes in to say, ominously, that he. would like to bring to. my attention something I was only nine years old then, but even then I had sense enough to know that if you looked at the moon, or any other distant bright light, through a screen, there was always a cross around the light, because of the way the screen refracted the light rays, or something. So I went out on the porch and looked at +11e moon in the clear, and sure enough there wasn't any ,cross around it. But the next morning, up town, everybody was telling everybody else about there being an cross around the moon because of the Armistice. problem of unidentified flying objects," known a:} UFO's, rolnembaring that pie- pie are always seeing , strange things in the sky. I remem- ber the night the word reached Commerce, Ga., that the Armistice endii.g. World War I had been signed. Somebody looked out the window at the moon, and saw a cross around the moon, and got on the tele- phone. and called everybody in town to tell them there was a cross around the moon be- cause the Armistice had been signed. T1lcli wil$ 1114; lrn(' that )1~:u- pie were; pay ng. a lot of ,t, tention to what writing spiders were writing in their webs, or the strange markings on hen eggs. Somebody was al- bringing into the local ways newspaper office a hen egg with "Kaiser Bill," written on it, or telling the editor about. a spider that had written "Peace," just as plain as you ever saw. But to get back to Mr. La- val, and the UFO's. He went on to say that the Air Force and the CIA had brainwashed everybody by telling them that the UFO's were just misidentified nat- ural phenomena. "When the truth finally comes out, and if it will," says Mr. Laval, "and contact is. made with this superior civilization, you can expect a change on this planet such as mankind. has never seen . . in religion, science, govern- ments, and military establish- ment The way things have been going lately, maybe a con- plate change wouldn't be such .a bad idea. 1 34-4 Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460034-4