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To: Quix

C’mon, Quix, even the bogus MJ-12 stuff doesn’t look so amateurish.

Actually, it looks like a poor transcription of FOIA documents (there’s a couple more errors in it). If you can’t spell or proofread, then if you want the Movement to be taken seriously with something of supposedly such magnitude, then find someone who can before presenting the world your “evidence”.


429 posted on 01/22/2009 8:03:02 AM PST by JoJo Gunn
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To: JoJo Gunn

Naw.

Would take too much fun out of it.

Besides, that’s part of the authenticity.

I forget where Stanton is now on the MJ-12 docs. He’s investigated them extensively.

IIRC, he was leaning toward authentic in at least several respects last I recall. He has a good doc on his site. I should read it more completely.


430 posted on 01/22/2009 8:09:44 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: JoJo Gunn
Actually, it looks like a poor transcription of FOIA documents (there’s a couple more errors in it). If you can’t spell or proofread...

I must assume that you were not "functional" in "pre PC" days. Documents used to be typed on manual typewriters, and carbon paper was used for copies. The Xerox process wasn't available until the mid 1960's, so copies were made using film cameras and blueprint machines. There was also a machine that made "brown copies", but those copies faded in just a few days.

I was an officer in the Army Adjutant General Corps. The only letters that were allowed to be proofed and retyped were those sent to the President or a congressman. Reports were not allowed to be proofed and corrected. This was done to reduce expense and optimize the time of typists.

The documents on the various MJ-12 sites do meet the standards of military reports and assessments. Office symbols are correct. (I bet you've never heard of an office symbol.)

436 posted on 01/22/2009 9:08:03 AM PST by GingisK
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If you can’t spell or proofread...

I forgot to tell you another interesting tidbit regarding highly classified documents. Spelling and grammar errors were often introduced purposely in the text. Each copy, manually prepared, contained a different mistake. Records were kept that tracked who viewed or "checked out" which copy. If the information were disclosed they could narrow the field of suspects merely by seeing which "tracers" were present in the leaked information. Also, people tend to correct spelling and grammar errors when they copy documents, so the absense of those "tracers" could also be used to narrow the search for the leak.

These are techniques the Army teaches.

437 posted on 01/22/2009 9:18:44 AM PST by GingisK
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