Good episode and good job keeping the interview flowing. I added Surrounded by Enemies: A Breakpoint Novel to my reading list. For anyone who is interested in the JFK assassination I’d recommend James K Lambert’s Conspiracy Theorists Lie.
I think Bryce answered the question as to why the Men in Khaki would visit TV producers. He said they made up the entire JFK-UFO connection themselves at the time and it was a relatively unknown idea. A quick Google search now reveals shovelfuls of stuff about it. As he said, ridicule, disinformation and deception have been working just fine for decades. Apparently they wanted to get the story of this strange visit out and make a connection to the story line he had created. The real meaty parts of the story would be who sent them, why they picked him and why that particular time? Means, motive and opportunity. The story line presented itself. Regardless, mission successful. No way would I meet anyone in a cemetery, the basement of the Alamo or any other creepy place for that sort of thing.
Ridicule, disinformation and deception have been in use for decades because it’s the closest thing to a perpetual motion machine I can imagine. It feeds itself and just keeps going. For those of us interested in these topics we often fuel it ourselves. I am reminded of that scene in Close Encounters where the military is giving a press conference and in the middle of it the geezer stats talking about his Bigfoot encounter. A scripted gift to the man giving the movie briefing and another pop culture reference but fittingly descriptive.
As for FUSAG in WW2 and maskirovka in general it’s intended to play into the beliefs of the recipient and assumes there actually is something to cover up. At best Disclosure might be giving up a useful tool needlessly and at worst might actually jeopardize national security interests. God, what if the answer to Disclosure is that the phenomenon (and I believe there is one at the core of this) really is utterly elusive and The Government has no better clue than we do and has been using our interest, and by extension pop culture, for utterly earthbound reasons. Who would gain from revealing that? I think its anthropomorphic arrogance to assume that we have anything other than the ability to react, generally poorly, to the phenomenon.
I look at Roswell and the Betty and Barney Hill case with a jaundiced eye because the accounts have grown legs over the years for a variety of reasons. Again I’d point to the pile of JFK-UFO references easily found today and I can’t accept iconic cases as given. One of the reasons I liked Conspiracy Theorists Lie is because it adds a lot of detail that puts things into better context which makes the idea of the lone gunman more credible. The truth behind most stories always turns out to be less exciting. Kind of like meeting a favorite star and they turn out nothing like the character they've created.
This is why I am very interested in the DoD program that’s been revealed. Luis Elizondo and that gun camera footage haven’t been in the public eye and are fresh. We’ve been rooting around in the UFO litterbox so long it looks like we’ve come up with different kinds of clumps and I am hoping they don’t turn out to be what all the other ones have been.