Jack Downing Part 2
The following text is a letter sent to the webmaster of ufomind.com, Glenn Campbell, in response to a request for information about Jack Downing. Raheem wrote this in '97, and lost contact with JD the following year.
Mr. Campbell,
I am a neighbor of Major Jack Downing (in NYC) and have been taken into his confidence as a personal assistant since late '96. He has been energetically trying to expose certain facts about the "MiBsters", as he calls them, but has been thwarted in many ways. He has refused to become a public figure, out of fear for his life, because he did have a high security clearance, with both the US Army and the National Security Agency. The majority of his writings pre-date the release of the SciFi comedy. He unwittingly was taking advantage of prerelease hype. That is to say, he saw that there was suddenly a lot of interest in the subject, and began posting several detailed articles on a MiB message board, all of which have since been deleted. He has also posted to a.c.a51 and other ufo newsgroups, and for some timed maintained an active line of communication with such individuals as Norio Hayakawa (GROOMWATCH@aol.com) and Whitley Strieber (WStrieber@aol.com). AOL has an instant message/chatroom function which members can take advantage of, and his best interviews took place there. After the release of the movie, he clammed up about the MiB and shifted his articles and postings to other matters relating to national security and the history of intelligence. For the most part he has been incommunicado since July, and then went on a trip to Virginia that was supposed to last only two weeks, but he hasn't been heard from since. I was entrusted with feeding his cats and watering plants before he left, and I hope that he is just in hiding and not "disappeared". For this reason I feel responsible to share his knowledge. Please try to help spread his knowledge about this little-known group. I applaud your efforts to maintain a popular clearing-house for disseminating information about secret government activities.
May the fates bestow their laurels upon the deserving.
Raheem al-Maqtul Bey
[Raheem is now at almaqtul@turkiye.org. This letter was posted at http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/oct/d13-001.shtml]
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