-Caveat Lector-
Sorry, false alarm... (probably)
-------Forwarded Message-------
From: "Gary Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999
Subj: RE: [RF]: Urban Legends= CIA site
The originators, claiming to be two doctors, are lying to you
at least in part. Most of the information was correct, that is,
it is owned by a Colonel, but they altered the registrant section.
Here's the real record:
Registrant:
UL Debunkers (URBANLEGENDS-DOM)
535 County Rd. 1600N Lot 22
Champaign, IL 61821
USA
Here's their fake:
>> Registrant:
>> United States Central Intelligence Agency
>> Branch Office #311
>> P.O. Box 5752
>> Washington, DC 20015
Check it out yourself:
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/
At 09:09 PM 11-7-1999 -0500, you wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
>From: "VGammill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999
>Subj: [RF]: Urban Legends= CIA site
>
>>
>> **Exclusive**
>>
>> Dear Friend:
>>
>> Many of you have probably received e-mails in the past claiming to be
>> from dying cancer patients or warning you of some new computer virus.
>> Upon forwarding these incredible stories to your friends and family,
>> some smart alec may forward you a reference to some so-called "urban
>> legends" website which claims to have proof debunking these stories.
>>
>> DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THESE URBAN LEGENDS WEBSITES!
>> Recent research has revealed that many urban legends books and
>> websites are actually urban legends themselves. Oftentimes the stories
>> you read in forwarded e-mail messages, as incredible as they may seem,
>> are absolutely TRUE. It is the claim that these stories are urban
>> legends which is FALSE.
>>
>> Why, you may ask, would anyone do such a thing? Why spend valuable
>> time and money creating a site only to deceive innocent Internet
>> users? The reason for doing this is that many world governments
>> (including the United States government) have a strong vested interest
>> in deceiving "the masses." For instance, many alleged "urban legends"
>> deal with true events that are potentially embarassing and
>> incriminating to the government (UFO sightings, government
>> experimentation on humans, etc.). What better way to keep these kinds
>> of covert operations secret than to spread rumors that they are
>> actually just "urban legends"? Doing this results in the more
>> educated--and, therefore, more politically influential--groups in
>> society believing that they know the "real" truth, when in fact they
>> could not be more deceived.
>>
>> How did we discover that the government is intentionally using
>> Internet urban legend websites to deceive the public? We did so by
>> accessing a freely-available but relatively-unknown database of all
>> Internet domain names and their respective owners. The entry for
>> http://www.urbanlegends.com, which claims to be an urban-legend
>> debunking site, clearly shows that this site is controlled by the
>> government:
>>
>> Domain Name: URBANLEGENDS.COM
>>
>> Registrant:
>> United States Central Intelligence Agency
>> Branch Office #311
>> P.O. Box 5752
>> Washington, DC 20015
>>
>> Administrative Contact:
>> Heimbaugh, Jason R., Colonel (JRH) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> +1 217 863 2001
>>
>> Record last updated on 02-Apr-98.
>> Database last updated on 24-Jan-99 06:52:55 EST.
>>
>> Domain servers in listed order:
>> NS.ADVANCENET.NET 205.198.248.3
>> DNS.ADVANCENET.NET 205.198.248.4
>>
>> Furthermore, you can even contact Col. Heimbaugh, the "administrative
>> contact" for this domain at the e-mail address in the record above
>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He freely admits to being a retired
>> military officer and a current employee of the CIA. He refused to
>> comment on the www.urbanlegends.com website, saying that its purpose
>> was "classified," yet insisted that the CIA was merely trying to "keep
>> the American public properly informed by discrediting allegations that
>> could jeopardize the ability of our leaders to govern effectively." By
>> this he can only mean one thing: the U.S. government is using Internet
>> urban legends websites to deceive the public.
>>
>> We have recently learned that the following other Internet urban
>> legends sites are also owned and operated by the government:
>> http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/
>> http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html
>> http://www.snopes.com/
>>
>> We believe that it is essential that this information be properly
>> disseminated so that people can learn the truth. When we attempted to
>> publicize this information by creating a website of our own, the site
>> was shut down due to a "permanent TCP/IP routing error" and all of our
>> data was destroyed. Thus, sending this information out by e-mail has
>> become our last hope. PLEASE SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
>> This information is too important to be ignored. Thank you for taking
>> the time to read this.
>>
>> Dr. Geoffrey Limache
>> Dr. Leroy Taho
>>
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