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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 7:29 AM
the American military and government. Courageously, Bryant signed off urging those
reading the advertisement to contact their local congressman and to press for nothing less
than a full-scale inquiry into the issue of UFOs.
Bryant’s advertisement was ultimately published (in the November 23, 1988 issue
of The Pentagram, a publication of the U.S. Army); yet as spirited as it was, it failed to
force the FBI to relinquish its files on Moore. By 1993, the FBI’s dossier on Moore
(which was classified at Secret level) was running at sixty-one pages, of which Moore
had succeeded in gaining access to a mere six.
In 1989, Bryant, mindful of the FBI’s surveillance of William Moore, attempted
to force the Bureau to release any or all records on Stanton Friedman. On 2 August of
that year, Bryant received the following response from Richard L. Huff. “Mr. Friedman is
the subject of one Headquarters main file. This file is classified in its entirety and I am
affirming the denial of access to it.”
Bryant’s efforts on Friedman’s behalf came after he (Friedman) had filed FOIA
requests with both the Bureau and the CIA. The response from the CIA was that it had no
responsive files – except for a ‘negative’ name check from the FBI, who subsequently Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
refused to reveal details of either the size of the file or its security classification.
On August 28, 1989, Bryant filed suit in the District Court for the Eastern District
of Columbia. “My complaint,” explained Bryant, “seeks full disclosure of the UFO-
related content of the FBI dossier on Stan Friedman. Neither Stan not I have been able to
convince the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to loosen its grasp on that dossier,
which Bureau officials assert bears a security classification.” Fortunately, in Friedman’s
case, a “small portion” of the FBI’s file pertaining to him was eventually released (on
November 13, 1989) as a result of Bryant’s actions. The remainder of the FBI file on
Friedman has never surfaced. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
What are we to make of all this? Consider the following. The FBI conducted
several investigations of MJ12 (via its Dallas Office; its Headquarters at Washington,
DC; and its Foreign Counter-Intelligence division). It had close liaison with the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations on an MJ12-related operation that may have also
involved the CIA in an attempt to crack a Soviet intelligence operation that may or may
not have existed. And the fact that the Bureau holds an extensive Secret file on William
Moore (co-author of the first book on the Roswell crash and a key figure in the MJ12
saga) and a file of unknown size and classification on Stanton Friedman is more than
notable. It also suggests that more information currently exist in the archives of the FBI
on MJ12 than has been declassified thus far. Whether or not the FBI was ever fully
satisfied by its investigations into the murky Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire world of MJ12 and with what it was told by
the AFOSI is debatable, however. The final word I will leave to one of Howard Blum’s
FBI sources: “All we’re finding out is that the government doesn’t know what it knows.
There are too many secret levels.”
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