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Formatting of Classified Messages

[Commenting on an alleged government document printed in the Desert
Rat in 1995.  Reprinted with permission.]

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:30:35 -0400 (EDT)
Commenting on: http://www.ufomind.com/area51/desertrat/1995/dr29/#executive
From: David Bentley <bentley@netusa1.net>
To: webmaster@ufomind.com

Hi  I just began reading this Newsletter or ... DR ... whatever ya
call it... thus far I have enjoyed it, although I did not get to the
main page till now, 2 days into it... I was reading DR #29. In the
text you referenced a message that you had found posted someplace and
requested any info on whether it appeared to be authentic.

Background on me : I was on active duty in the US Navy from 1982-1992.
My rate was ET (Electronics Technician) First Class when discharged,
or better known as ET-1. During my service I was commonly involved in
the repair and maintenance of all aspects of electronic equipment
which included Communications Equipment, as well as Crypto and Radar.
To Shorten this I served one tour near the end of my service in which
I Became a CMS Custodian, which mainly means that I had access and
responsibility for Key materials, but in the particular command I was
on which was the USNS Powhattan I was also required to stand watch in
radio central, this is where I had the most experience with military
message traffic. (I supply the above mainly because it is highly
unusual for anyone below E-7 to have CMS Custodian status and for an
ET to process message traffic)

Now I have reviewed the message you asked about, and to be Honest if
this is being represented to you as a military message it is lacking
in many aspects, Perhaps I would not think so if I saw the orginal
Message, but the format is not correct for any message that I have
ever seen, also In the entire time I reviewed message traffic ranging
from TS to UNCLASS I have never seen a "Briefing" or any other
document that read as that one does. It reads like a news story, all
of the message traffic I read .... with the exception of actual news
messages read very succinctly and dry as sand.   This was standard
Practice when composing messages, you never composed a message that
deviated from fact, and I never saw one that was phrased as a
narrative.

I did get to look at the MJ-12 Document as well, but am undecided in
all but one respect. It appears to be something purported to be a
briefing. But again it does not conform to standard message
formatting, if it was supposed to have been transmitted the earliest
and biggest error is in the list of names.... they are indented.   In
Standard message traffic one does not indent text ever, it needlessly
causes message size to increase and you just do not do that when
transmitting a message. However since the originator of the message
did not say that that particular one was transmitted it may not apply.

The one I saw on your page however does conform to a small portion of
the standard message formatting but lacks too much of the correct
formatting to be credable.

I have been wrong before, but if the original resembles that one I do
not buy it based on personal experience with messages.

I do hope that at some point you do continue the DR as I am enjoying
it immensely, and find it intriguing, entertaining as well as thought
provoking.


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