#Disinformation

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Jaime Shandera Los Angeles television producer who received the roll of 35mm film bearing the Eisenhower briefing document on December 11, 1984 and found the Cutler-Twining memorandum at the National Archives on July 18, 1985.
Linda Moulton Howe Denver television producer of A Strange Harvest (1980) who, under a March 1983 HBO development contract, said AFOSI agent Richard Doty showed her a 'Briefing Paper for the President' at Kirtland on April 9, 1983.
Paul Bennewitz Albuquerque instrument maker whose 1979 and 1980 films and radio recordings near Kirtland AFB led to AFOSI interviews, calls from two senators, and the disinformation operation Richard Doty described in 2005.
Richard Doty Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent at Kirtland AFB from 1979 who interviewed Paul Bennewitz in 1980 and in 2005 said he had run disinformation operations against UFO researchers on orders.
William L. Moore Co-author of The Roswell Incident (1980) who told the July 1, 1989 MUFON symposium that from 1980 to 1984 he supplied AFOSI, through Richard Doty, information on Paul Bennewitz, APRO and others.

The Aviary Name applied in UFO literature to the bird-named military and intelligence contacts who supplied UFO information to William L. Moore in the 1980s, and to a later roster published by Richard Boylan.

Project Aquarius Name of a purported compartmented UFO project that first appears in a November 17, 1980 AFOSI teletype copied to William Moore and in a June 14, 1977 'Executive Briefing' he photographed in March 1983.
The Nautilus (Telepathy Project) The Nautilus (Telepathy Project) refers to a fabricated 1960 French magazine story claiming the U.S. Navy had conducted successful telepathy experiments with the USS Nautilus submarine, a hoax that nonetheless alarmed Soviet and American military planners and accelerated government parapsychology funding.

Gamergate Gamergate was a loosely organized online harassment campaign that began in August 2014 on 4chan and 8chan under the pretext of 'ethics in video game journalism,' whose coordinated harassment tactics and propaganda methods were subsequently adopted by the alt-right and the 2016 Trump campaign.
Majestic-12 Documents describing a 1947 presidential committee on flying discs, received by Jaime Shandera in 1984 and reported found at the National Archives in 1985; the FBI wrote in 1988 that the briefing document was bogus.
UFO Cover-Up Live Two-hour syndicated television special of October 14, 1988 in which the shadowed, voice-altered sources Falcon and Condor described Majestic-12 and a living extraterrestrial held by the United States.