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== Alleged disinformation activities ==

Moore has been associated with claims that he was a [[controlled disclosure agent]] and/or [[disinformation]] agent. According to a theory, Moore may have agreed to his controversial role in exchange for access to classified information and personal safety, while also being tasked with dividing the [[UFO community]] and obscuring sensitive truths. For more, see [[Disinformation#Controlled Disclosure Agents]].

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| video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCsKMZKgeHY Bill Moore addresses MUFON, July 1 1989]

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Moore has been associated with claims that he was a [[controlled disclosure agent]] and/or [[disinformation]] agent. At a 1989 [[Mutual UFO Network]] conference, Bill Moore confessed that he had intentionally fed fake evidence of extraterrestrials to UFO researchers including [[Paul Bennewitz]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gulyas |first=Aaron John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3etCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89 |title=Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476623498 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina}}: "Bill Moore, in 1989, gave a talk at the Mutual UFO Network symposium which he revealed his role in the Bennewitz affair and other connections with government and military intelligence operatives [...]"</ref> Doty later said that he intentionally gave fabricated information to UFO researchers while working at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]] in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kloor |first=Keith |author-link=Keith Kloor |date=2019 |title=UFOs Won't Go Away |journal=Issues in Science and Technology |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=39–56 |jstor=26949023}} According to a theory, Moore may have agreed to his controversial role in exchange for access to classified information and personal safety, while also being tasked with dividing the [[UFO community]] and obscuring sensitive truths. For more, see [[Disinformation#Controlled Disclosure Agents]].

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 == Alleged disinformation activities ==
-Moore has been associated with claims that he was a [[controlled disclosure agent]] and/or [[disinformation]] agent. According to a theory, Moore may have agreed to his controversial role in exchange for access to classified information and personal safety, while also being tasked with dividing the [[UFO community]] and obscuring sensitive truths. For more, see [[Disinformation#Controlled Disclosure Agents]].
+{{external media
+| video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCsKMZKgeHY Bill Moore addresses MUFON,  July 1 1989]
+}}
+Moore has been associated with claims that he was a [[controlled disclosure agent]] and/or [[disinformation]] agent.  At a 1989 [[Mutual UFO Network]] conference, Bill Moore confessed that he had intentionally fed fake evidence of extraterrestrials to UFO researchers including [[Paul Bennewitz]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gulyas |first=Aaron John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3etCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89 |title=Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476623498 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina}}: "Bill Moore, in 1989, gave a talk at the Mutual UFO Network symposium which he revealed his role in the Bennewitz affair and other connections with government and military intelligence operatives [...]"</ref> Doty later said that he intentionally gave fabricated information to UFO researchers while working at [[Kirtland Air Force Base]] in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kloor |first=Keith |author-link=Keith Kloor |date=2019 |title=UFOs Won't Go Away |journal=Issues in Science and Technology |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=39–56 |jstor=26949023}}  According to a theory, Moore may have agreed to his controversial role in exchange for access to classified information and personal safety, while also being tasked with dividing the [[UFO community]] and obscuring sensitive truths. For more, see [[Disinformation#Controlled Disclosure Agents]].
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