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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:17:29 -0800
From: Ted Oliphant III 
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: Sarah McClendon News Release. (Background Info.)
Did you see this about Sarah McClendon's News Release?
It comes from Bob Durant.
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To Whom It May Concern:
On March 30 Washington columnist Sarah McClendon published a
report claiming, among other things, that "a community of
scientists and technicians employed by the government" believe
UFOs "are actual visitors from other worlds."  Her report has
received wide distribution on the Internet.
McClendon states that a number of senior Clinton advisors
received UFO briefings. Among those named officials is Anthony
Lake, who served as the President's National Security Advisor.
Lake was nominated for the position of Director of Central
Intelligence, but his nomination was withdrawn in  the face of
Republican opposition.  He resigned from public life, and now
teaches at Georgetown University.
On April 14 Lake delivered the annual George W. Ball Lecture at
Princeton University.  I attended the lecture,  and approached
him after the talk to ask about McClendon's report.  The
following is a transcript of our short but unambiguous
conversation.
Durant:  Two weeks ago Sarah McClendon, a Washington reporter,
Lake:  Right, right
Durant:  wrote a real fire burner about UFOs.  And she indicated
that this was taken very seriously by the Clinton administration.
Your name was mentioned in it, as somebody having received a
briefing on this topic.  Do you know anything about this?
Lake:  This is very highly classified.  But if you looked at
Independence Day, the contact with the space aliens, the
description of the aliens is just about perfect.  No, that's just
nonsense.  Absolute nonsense.  I never got a briefing. There is
no, what, what is it, Roswell.  Unless, I never heard of Roswell,
in fact, until I was on the Diane Reems (sp?) show about a year
ago, and a caller said, so are you going to tell us about
Roswell, Roswell and what's it called, 51 or 52?
Durant:  Area 51
Lake:  Oh, Area 51.  I never heard of it, and so I went back to
the Air Force and said, what's this all about?  And they denied
it.  Maybe they lied to me.  This is nonsense.  And I think the
explanation is, uh, I can't remember now, it may have had
something to do with satellites, reconnaissance, going over,
flights, planes going over that convinced people something was
happening.  Now, the problem is, as I said on the Diane Reems
(sp?) show, I never heard about this, I don't know about this.
You can either conclude, one, that I'm lying to you, or two, that
I'm naive and nobody ever tells me anything, or three, that I'm
telling the truth.  All I can do is tell you what the truth as I
know it is.  But Independence Day was a good movie!
Durant:  OK, gotcha.  Thank you.
Earlier in the day, a colleague of mine telephoned Sarah
McClendon to inquire about her source for the claim about Lake's
UFO briefing. She was unable to answer that question at the
moment.
        Robert J. Durant
        15 April 98
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Comments: Oliphant
I spoke to Sarah McClendon on March 31st, the day after The
McClendon News Service issued the News Relase. She was in the
Veteran's Hospital, recovering from a fall. Here is the gist of
our conversation:
She told me she had never met Dr. Steven Greer and didn't know
him. Her source was Steve Bassett, Washington lobbyist who told
her Dr. Greer had "High credibility". She didn't know about
Greer's claim that he had remote viewed aliens under Blance Peak
in Colorado, while they were being attacked by covert military
forces using a sarin-like gas.
Niether did she know about his vectoring in UFOs with high
powered flashlights. She asked me to send her everything I had on
Greer, right away. She explained that Steve Bassett was the
source for some of the material in her News Release. She told me
that Bassett had been a source for information used in articles
she had written in previous years.
"He's drowning in UFOs" she told me. Sarah says she knew Bassett
was trying to get congressional hearings going..."But right now
that's not happening" she said. I told her I thought Bassett had
used her, she didn't agree "No,
I don't think so. But you hurry and send me this material (On
Greer) right away." I faxed some copies of Greer's statements to
her that evening.
Two evenings later when she was preparing for an interview on the
Art Bell Show, I spoke to Sarah McClendon's secretary who
answered her hospitall room telephone. I was told McClendon was
busy, but I heard Sarah in the background asking who was on the
phone. Sarah came on the line to thank me for the material.
Finally, at 2 A.M. Washington time, 17 million people around the
world hear her on the radio. When Art Bell started interviewing
her, they only talked about the press release in briefly. After
five minutes, Bell changed the subject, never asking any specific
details of the story, her sources for information, not even
mentioning one of the many names she printed in her article. The
remaining 55 inutes of the one hour segment, never mentioned UFOs
nor her News Release; that had obstensibly been the reason to
have her on the show in the first place.
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