........in addition to generating very real fears, and denying both. 10 People Who Were Driven Mad By The Government
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In the 1980s, Paul Bennewitz owned a humidity equipment company that had a number of contracts with Kirkland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bennewitz lived near the base and said he saw UFOs flying over it.
According to special agent Richard Doty of the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and backed up by documents discovered using the Freedom of Information Act, Bennewitz was actually encouraged to believe that he saw real UFOs. Doty met with Bennewitz a number of times and passed him false documents. The false documents seemed to indicate that there was going to be an alien invasion, and it could happen at any time. Since Bennewitz was convinced that the government was hiding an imminent alien invasion that, of course, never happened, he spent one month institutionalized for paranoia.
Doty fed Bennewitz the false information to discredit him. What he actually saw was a secret helicopter training program. By convincing Bennewitz that what he saw was a UFO, it would make him look crazy, and no one would believe anything he said.
Poster Comment:
This is the diabolical subtlety of our Beltway babysitters and their imitators - - strategic disinfo campaigns great and small according to the conspiracy need of the moment, many definitely aimed at driving people crazy. You're all aware of it, but let's be ever more so....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Architects_of_Fear