Failed Polygraph Yields Unexpected Benefit
REDWOOD CITY, California — The recently leaked Top Secret MJ-12 UFO documents
from Mr. Timothy Cooper have undergone a series of authentication tests
by investigators Dr. Robert M. Wood, Ryan S. Wood and other questioned
document examiners. Besides the basic forensic authentication tests of
chronology, style, typography, content and authorship, the Woods are increasingly
focusing on the important issue of provenance. One of five currently disclosed
sources of the Majestic documents is Mr. Timothy Cooper of Big Bear Lake,
California, who received some Majestic documents in his post office mailbox
and through personal contacts between 1992 and 1999. Mr. Cooper’s alleged
sources are: 1) counterintelligence agent Thomas Cantwheel, 2) Cantwheel’s
daughter, 3) a Legionnaire, formerly Air Force counterintelligence, and
4) a former CIA employee. Mr. Cooper has sworn out three affidavits related
to this matter and to date none of the information supplied in the affidavits
has been shown to be false. Recently, however Mr. Cooper took a polygraph
examination and did not do well.
Tim Cooper and the Polygraph
On the Mike Jarmus radio show, Robert Durant (an anomaly researcher who regularly
and systematically questions the truthfulness of unusual claims) when
interviewing Mr. Cooper, unexpectedly challenged him to a polygraph exam.
His purpose was to further understand the provenance of the new top secret
Majestic documents and try to determine if Cooper had forged the documents
and was perpetrating a massive fraud. Mr. Cooper agreed to take a polygraph,
and Dr. Wood arranged to have him examined by a highly qualified polygrapher,
Mr. William Stanley Lane, Certified Polygraph Examiner, a former president
of the California Association of Polygrapher Examiners and highly regarded
in his field. The test was narrowed, at the polygrapher examiner’s insistence,
from a large battery of questions down to the central issue of where did
he get the documents.
Tim Cooper has consistently stated that he will protect the identity
of his two covert sources, both before and after the polygraph test. When
asked the question, "Did you lie when you said that you received the ‘Majestic
Documents’ in your mailbox?" he said, "No." This answer clearly indicated
deception, when asked three different times. This deception is to be expected,
based on his determination to conceal the identity of the other sources,
concealed from the conversation. We have subsequently clarified these
sources, and they are now described in the table of document acquisition
that follows. Many of the Cooper entries on this table as a direct result
of issues raised by the polygraph test.
In addition, when asked the question, "Did you lie when you said that
you gave those documents to a Mr. Bob and Ryan Wood?" the "No" answer
showed deception. It certainly should have, since he gave most of the
documents to Stan Friedman or one or two to Timothy Good, and only two
documents to Bob and Ryan (the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Report and
the so-called "First Annual Report.")
On ABC’s Sunday news program August 8, 1999, it was stated that polygraph
exams are not admissible in jury trials and that the Supreme Court recently
supported a challenge to that ruling. Criminals such as Aldrich Ames can
and do pass lie detector tests. Also, innocent people can be placed under
suspicion because the science of lie detectors is still considered unreliable.
As worst, studies show a 50/50 chance of truth being shown, and at best,
the Defense Department has four studies showing accuracy of 80-95%.
In post-test discussion with Mr. Cooper, asking him why he showed deception,
he told us that he always intended to protect the identity of his two
other sources besides the mailbox Cantwheel source, and would continue
to do so. This is consistent with the deceptive results recorded, and
polygraph examiner Lane agrees.
"Accordingly, Tim’s polygraph test, although conclusive that his answers
very likely showed deception consistent with the context of the questions,
is moving us toward a better understanding of the provenance of these
fascinating documents, many of which are deemed authentic by other means"
said Ryan Wood.
In the process of pinning down Mr. Cooper on exactly which documents
he obtained from whom and when, we have developed the following tabular
information concerning the sources of the Majestic documents. The documents
themselves can be found in our book, "The Majestic Documents," available
by calling 1-800-845-2151.
Table of Top Secret UFO Majestic Document Sources
Eisenhower Briefing Document (EBD), dated 18 Nov. 1952 (7 pages)
Date Discovered: December 12, 1984
Source: Jaime Shandera's house mailbox, Los Angeles,
CA (on film)
Truman to Forrestal, (1 page) dated 24 Sep 1947
Date Discovered: December 12, 1984
Source: Jaime Shandera's house mailbox, Los Angeles,
CA (on film)
Cutler Twining Memo, dated 14 July 1954 (1 page)
Date Discovered: July 1985
Source: Jaime Shandera, RG 341, E-267 National
Archives
JFK and Marilyn Monroe (1 page) dated 3 Aug 1962
Date Discovered: 1992
Source: Cooper from a former CIA source
Humelsine to President Truman (1 page) dated 25 Sep 1947
Date Discovered: October 7, 1992
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel
Air Accident Report, dated 8 July 1947 (3 pages)
Date Discovered: 1993
Source: Cooper Air Force Counterintelligence
Legionnaire
Hillenkoetter Memo to the Joint Intelligence Committee (1 page), 19 Sep
1947
Date Discovered: March 1993
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel
Majestic Twelve First Annual Report -- Panel, 1948 (1 pages)
Date Discovered: Jan 19, 1994
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel
Special Operations Manual, April 1954 (21 pages) [aka SOM 1-01]
Date Discovered: March 4, 1994
Source: Don Berliner house mailbox, Alexandria,
VA (on film)
Majestic Twelve Annual Report, Table of Contents (1 page)
Date Discovered: December 30, 1994
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel
4th Annual Report of Majestic with Annexes 1952 (14 pages)
Date Discovered: February 22, 1995
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel
Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Intelligence Assessment, 22 July 1947
(7 pages)
Date Discovered: July 16, 1995
Source: Cooper in personal meeting with Cantwheel
Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Field Order (1 page) dated 4 July, 1947
Date Discovered: July 16, 1995
Source: Cooper in personal meeting with Cantwheel
JFK to Director CIA (1 page) dated 28 June 1961
Date Discovered: July 16, 1995
Source: Cooper meeting with Cantwheel
Kennedy memo on classification review of UFO files affecting National
Security, dated 12 Nov. 1963 (1 page)
Date Discovered: July 16, 1995
Source: Cooper meeting with Cantwheel
Mission Assessment of Recovered Lenticular Aerodyne Objects (White Hot),
dated 24 Sept. 1947 (19 pages)
Date Discovered: June 6, 1996
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel's
daughter Salina
Directive to Twining Via Eisenhower (1 page), dated 8 July 1947
Date Discovered: June 6, 1996
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel's
daughter Salina
Directive to Twining by Truman (1 page), dated 9 July, 1947
Date Discovered: June 6, 1996
Source: Cooper in PO mailbox from Cantwheel's
daughter Salina
Einstein-Oppenheimer, dated June 1947 (6 pages)
Date Discovered: June 6, 1996
Source: Cooper in PO Mailbox from Cantwheel's
daughter Salina
Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency Memo #1412, dated 12 April 1949
(1 Page)
Date Discovered: January 1999, although received
1994
Source: Cooper allegedly from CIA Paperclip FOIA
Both Bob and Ryan have spent a combined 60 hours with Tim Cooper over a course
of three years. They have been to his house, read many of his papers,
talked with him at length, both about the polygraph and these and other
documents. We believe that he did not forge anything, based on our personal
evaluation of him, his style, his habits, his demeanor, and his writing
despite the “failed” polygraph examination.
Several distinguished researchers have stated that if there were crashes
and parts recovered, it would be remarkable if there was not a paper trail.
The central question is “Which documents that have been leaked are authentic
or hoaxed, and if hoaxed, why, when, by whom and for what purpose?
Truth, Deception or Falsehood — Too Early To Conclude
“We in no way are ruling out the possibility that these documents were donated
to Tim Cooper as a likely way to get them onto the world stage. It is
important to remember that if it were not for the efforts of Bob and Ryan
everything in Tim Cooper’s entire collection would still be sitting in
the “gray basket” of Stan Friedman or Tim Good’s questionable stack and
unlikely to have been published at all. Another, very real possibility
is that some aspects of the documents are part of a deceptive, disinformation
campaign designed for the mid-fifties or later to confuse or re-direct
the Soviet or Chinese technological investments. There may be other reasons
we also do not perceive.
It is critical however, to look at each document and further analyze
each sentence or phrase for truth, deception or falsehood. It is illogical
to generalize that if one phrase is somehow wrong that the entire document
is wrong, as the cliché goes, “Lets not throw the baby out with
the bathwater.”
Resolution of the currently released set of documents is a huge task
that is nearly 50% done although we have disclosed only 10% of the research
results about the authentication of the currently released documents.
Both truths and deception may both be seen as authentic, because historical
documents represent ideas and not facts, troubling issues of a documents
authenticity sometimes may never be resolved. “No amount of degree of
content analysis, typography nor chronology, without physical testing
of original documents, ever completely satisfy professional standards
of authenticity”, said Dr. Wood. However, during 2000 much more will be
released along with more authentication research in the form of our presentations,
publications, documentaries, and our website,” said Ryan Wood.
Meanwhile, Mr. Cooper continues to receive packages with archival contents,
some of which are original paper, ink and watermark. These offer significant
promise to get to the heart of the history of the Majestic Documents.
Where Can you See The Majestic Documents
The new Majestic documents were first published on www.TheWordIsTruth.org web
site as part of Joe Firmage’s launch of the International Space Sciences
Organization, www.ISSO.org. They also can be purchased by calling 1-800-845-2151,
including a multimedia CDROM that discusses the authenticity of these
documents. Stan Friedman has published a detailed book, Top Secret
Majic, which includes some of the Majestic documents. It covers the
authenticity of the Eisenhower Briefing Document; Mr. Freidman was the
first to publish a preliminary version of the Special Operations Manual
— Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal.
Wood & Wood Enterprises
Dr. Robert M and Ryan S Wood are partners dedicated to the investigation of
Majestic, MAJIC or MJ-12 documents. Our goals are to research, authenticate
and publish our results in widely accepted media. We employ a variety
of specialists in key fields that contribute to our efforts. We welcome
volunteers that are willing to sign non-disclosure agreements and that
have a reputation for integrity and a dogged determination to search for
the truth.
