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Top Secret / Majic | 
| Author: Stanton T. Friedman
Creator: Whitley Strieber
Publisher: Marlowe & Co
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Marlowe & Co. Ed
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1569248303
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.94209789
EAN: 9781569248300
ASIN: 1569248303
Publication Date: July 1996
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 Great Research July 11, 2008
Salim Mahdi (Cairo, Zamalek, Egypt)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stanton Friedman: One of the very few scientists ufologists who make sense.
He researches the topic.
He provides uncontested data.
He defied the arrogant scientists.
He studied the phenomena as an honest scientist.
He spent 30 years investigation Ufos.
He knows!
He knows!
His books are the very core of Ufology.
He is the ONE!
S. Mahdi, Cairo, Egypt.
Meticulously Researched and Thoroughly Convincing May 1, 2008
The Boogie Man (Coventry)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was always somewhat skeptical regarding the MJ12 documents until I read this book. Stanton Friedman spent eleven years researching his conclusions, and countless hours in fifteen different archives, including the Truman and Eisenhower Archives and the National Archives. He has made numerous declassification requests under the FOIA, scanning the "finders guides" for any telling entries. He describes the Kafkaesque procedures within the maze of officialdom that have sometimes kept him waiting years for responses. Friedman is in absolutely no doubt that a secret as large as this "Cosmic Watergate" could easily have been kept by the military and the MJ Committee which was formed under President Truman by a special classified executive order on 24th September 1947 on the recommendation of Dr. Vannevar Bush and Secretary James Forrestal. Besides these two the other ten members were a mixture of trusted scientists and military men. The MJ12 documents comprising the Majestic 12 Briefing Document, the Cutler Twining Memo, and the Special Operations Manual, deal with the current state of knowledge (1953-4) concerning EBE's (Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities), their craft, and procedures for removing them secretly to secure facilities. The documents support the conviction of Friedman that an extra- terrestrial vehicle crashed at Corona, outside of Roswell. Having had experience as a nuclear physicist on the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program at General Electric, Friedman believes that alien technology has indeed been fed into the military/industrial complex via the Pentagon's Foreign Technology Division; he cites the transistor as an example.
Friedman compares the "Above Top Secret" Majestic operation to the WW2 Manhattan Project which employed over 50 000 people, and also the Allied German and Japanese code breaking effort during WW2. Both of these operations were successfully concealed for years despite their enormous scale. He asserts that there must be a mass of other MJ12 documents in existence, to process the information that has been gleaned from the ET. craft. Friedman speculates that some of this technology would take hundreds of years to reproduce on Earth. Imagine taking a digital watch back in time to 1940, and asking scientists to copy it! Perhaps we are only now beginning to reap the rewards from these crashed ET. vehicles. If their propulsion systems are now understood, this information could cause the collapse of the fossil fuel industries! There must be so much more to discover!
 Must reading, but with a few caveats March 22, 2007
Joseph Bishop (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think Friedman tries to make a fairly good and serious case for his view that these documents are authentic and deals well with the many objections raised about them by debunkers. He mainly focuses on the case made by these debunkers who are easily dismissable, while the criticisms of other ufologists (e.g. Kevin Randle et al) as to these documents' authenticity he doesn't get into as much as he should have.
Three observations -
Firstly, at least some of his interpretations re these documents' layouts and style etc. are interpretible the opposite way. Secondly, the fact that no ufologist has seen or touched the original documents, which is usually a telltale sign that hoax is in play - in this case a fairly sophisticated hoax. Thirdly - and this he left out but should have mentioned - at least one of the original ufologists who handled the film of these documents before passing them to the author, had admitted that he had been employed and involved in government disinformation ops (possible disinformation being the prime objection by others as to the reality of these papers). Perhaps the author didn't know that at the time... But a factoid like that could go a long way to pretty much sinking his whole case and he surely knows that.
His commentary on the shady, secretive past of the famous/infamous debunker Dr. Menzel, was quite interesting.
The author devotes a bit too much time in trumpeting his qualifications and experience in this field. He also needlessly puts in a lot of his opinions attacking other ufologists. That seems to go on quite a bit amongst this crowd, all the infighting and competition with each other, his falling into that seems unnecessary.
Still, the book overall is really 'must' reading for people interested in this field, as so little been published on 'MAJIC-12'. Also it's a good companion volume to his earlier book 'Crash at Corona'.
 Hot air and conjecture September 19, 2005
Greg
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Predictable and dull. It should be given no more creedence than other science fiction.
Wiht all of his work, there is more than a smattering of self-congratulatory patting on the back from a man who has wholly bought into the self created myth of himself.
Research best summed up as - I know a guy who has a friend who knows a guy who worked with a woman who said this really happened so it's a fact!
Anyone want to buy a bridge?
they're already here... May 21, 2005
Heather T. Raymond (Kapaa, HI United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book deserves much more attention.
Ever seen the Peter Jennings TV "documentary" about "ufo's"? You might wish to start getting your..NEWS...from more reliable sources. Like this book. You just won't get it on a silver platter--or the so-called "News" organizations in general.
You must "dig". It's a new...beat generation.
There is an old computing addage: "garbage in garbage out".
If you value what you put in your own brain about extraterrestrial craft and MJ 12 documents; begin reading--this.
I don't think I can reliably "believe in" certain strategically filtered, spinning, highly biased (or over "balanced")"News" stories on the TeleVision; YOU may certainly find an epiphany here, in this book by Stanton.
Hearher Raymond AND--
Henry Raymond, Author: "The Third Kind of Midnight"
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