Memo: August 26, 1987 (Art Bell Gets His Money's Worth, Part II)
#2 of Art Bell Gets His Money's Worth
"[REDACTED] has a complaint."
I actually based this on official CIA documents from the 1960s; it was a fun style to emulate -- I guess SCP was trying to do that but, now actually going to the original, it's apparent they sort of suck at it. The CIA memos sometimes have an amazingly dry, almost twee sense of humor about them that I really enjoyed; it's funny to think how banal evil really is.
Anyway, this sets up the rationale for the narrative Degory Chandler (introduced in The Evil That Men Do (Art Bell Gets His Money's Worth, Part I) ) writes right before he goes totally bananas and then blows his brains out wandering the desert. You can probably guess as to what's going to happen...or maybe not.
August 26, 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Intelligence
THROUGH: Deputy Director of Science and Technology
Deputy Director of Operations
SUBJECT: Degory Chandler Diary
I have approved the release of Document 57, hereafter known as the 'Degory Chandler Diary,' on targeted BBS, namely APSNET in Aurora, Colorado and [REDACTED] in Sarasota, Florida. Dissemination should be imminent.
The reason for this timed leak is:
a) Deliberate disinformation per [REDACTED], Project [REDACTED], to be combined with information prepared by Bob Lazar for future KLAS interview (scheduled for FY 1989);
b) The contents of the document being, prima faciae, unreliable and unbelievable. As [REDACTED] mentioned in the Memorandum dated [REDACTED] the document reads as the stuff of science fiction, and must, due to failure of Project CHRYSALID, including subsections A and particularly B, be thought as much;
c) the general unawareness that DCI was concerned [REDACTED] would go rogue and go to the media with a story.
Per the above Chandler was evidently a reader of pulp magazines and stories, and his style reflects that. Even if it did not read as science fiction, the content itself seems hysterical and unreliable, and therefore ideal as cover.
There is an anticipated reaction from Richmond Everett's family, however, per the Memorandum dated [REDACTED], Colonel [REDACTED] had made arrangements in case they, too, would attempt to go to the media.
In the context of this Memorandum, I will attest to the veracity of Chandler's account; he was a reliable eyewitness. The irony is not lost on me.
[signed]
H.B. Brewster