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392 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
tories, and sparing details were barely covered in only a few astronomical
journals. But everything was kept out of the newspapers.
The government's intelligence agency had succeeded in blocking the
Committee's early plans for public reports and press conferences. Then
they firmly executed their plans for a blackout of real information about
Mars. The government keeps itself in control by keeping a world-wide
opinion in control, especially with regard to sensitive and dramatic issues.
Allowing an announcement by an international team of scientists suggesting
that Mars was inhabited, would be tantamount to the government
confirming that UFOs are visiting our planet. So the censors knew what
they had to do.
Pressure was put on those who headed the project to furnish no reports
to the public press. Though the astronomers studied Mars for five months,
only one little statement was given to the public at the beginning. Dr.
Slipher had announced that some new and interesting changes were
observed on Mars with their photographic study. Following that report,
there was only silence. All plans for further publicity were blocked, and
no worthy Mars Patrol bulletins were ever released. 8 The excuses given
out were in the category of "difficulties in communication and coordination,
disagreement as to what had been seen and photographed, months of
studies and review were necessary to properly analyze, and so on."
How can any silencing agency of the government achieve such suppression
of this, or any other, kind of dramatic information It is difficult
to determine for each case just what methods are employed, but their
forceful persuasion does escalate until the cooperation is achieved. Presumably,
they start out with the position that such information is related
to the national security, and that the government is the entrusted agency to
best handle the social implications of confirmed announcements. They
imply that the public isn't quite ready for this information, that the world
isn't ready for this information. That the economy isn't prepared for this
type of information. They fear that there would be an upheaval in thinking
(although I am certain that it would be an "upliftment" in thinking, and
this is the real problem that threatens the censors).
They will say that the public might panic, or they could offer the excuse
that there might be an attack from Mars. The possibilities for persuasive
argument are endless, but the only end requirement is that planetary evidence
be shown as inconclusive, vague, and debatable. It has always been
maintained officially, that known life does not exist beyond the Earth,
unless possibly it is light years away from us in another part of the galaxy.
In which case, the distance is so great that our civilizations will never meet.
After being persuaded to withhold the significant findings, including
the discovery of the great-circle paths of the canals, the Mars Committee