UFO frenzy
Sir: I found Mr Adrian Berry's review of Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (Books, 1 August) as bizarre as the subject matter concerned, in particular
his fear that the author's statement . . the intelligence community must be re- minded that they are accountable to the Congress or Parliament . . . and we are entitled to some of the truth' may lead to the 20th century equivalent of the 17th- century witch hunts. Mr Berry's suggestion that the author's innocuous desire could easily lead to 'frenzied mass movement' must be one of the most ludicrous things I have ever read in your magazine, and also quite the most hilarious. The image of thousands of rampaging UFO loonies burning to death members of the intelli- gence services across the USA and Britain in order to learn the truth about flying saucers is very funny.
What is even funnier is that Mr Berry seems unaware that at the moment the media is full of people making that same demand of the intelligence community (though not, admittedly, to find out the
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truth about little green men) but who haven't, so far, set off the conflagration that he fears.
I look forward to reading future con- tributions from Mr Berry. He is almost as amusing as Jeffrey Bernard.
John Brosnan Flat 2,
6 Lower Road, Harrow, Middlesex
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