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The Geis Letter
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The Geis Letter
"Thought Crime, Dogmacide & Intellectual Heresy"
published by Richard E. Geis
The content of the following two sections below
were lifted verbatim from The Geis
Letter No. 46, received 3/26/98.
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Andy Watson's Opinion re The Geis Letter
Even though REG did not like
Ciphers,
his problems with the book reflect his taste more than an objective
assessment in a literary or contemporary-literature context.
His
reaction to the book is probably representative of a significant
number of potential readers of the novel who probably also find the
work of Thomas Pynchon unreadable. Oddly, I would have thought that
the conspiracy theories woven through Ciphers would have held
special appeal for REG.
On the whole, I quite enjoy receiving The Geis Letter for
its sincerity, well-crafted expresions of iconoclastic opinions, and
the simply fascinating insights and observations he offers in support
of compelling conspiracy theories that just might not be paranoid
ravings at all.
Two recent faves:
- The FBI cover-up of the TWA Flight 800 accidental (or
intentional?) downing by a U.S. Navy surface-to-air missile.
- About Flight 800, REG quotes from Aviation Week:
On July 21, 1996, the report states, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Valerie Caproni informed Magladry and Norm Weimeyer, head of the
Flight 800 probe's operations group, "that no interviews were to
be conducted by the NTSB." Safety Board investigators could review
FBI-supplied documents on the witnesses, "provided no notes were
taken and no copies were made."
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- The next day, FBI and NTSB officials reached an agreement
that safety board officials could conduct interviews "under the
direction and in the company of the FBI, and all information
would be kept private with no notes taken.
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- The report said that there were 458 witness interviews
provided by the FBI. Of those 183 reported seeing a streak of
light and 102 provided information on the origin of the streak.
The report stated that six witnesses said the streak originated
in the sky and 96 said it rose from the surface.
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- It is not clear whether the accounts of the 96 witnesses
were included in the 244 analyzed by the CIA for the FBI. Tha
analysts concluded that the witnesses did not see a missile
strike Flight 800.
Great stuff!
I can't help thinking that REG might have liked Ciphers had
he read more than the first chapter. I always advise people to read
through the third chapter (actually numbered Chapter "00000010",
octal notation for decimal "2", with the first chapter being numbered
zero) before deciding to give up on it. By then, if they still don't
like it, they might as well stop, but most people seem to have gotten
into the novel's idiosyncratic groove by then.
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