The Bennewitz Affair: Richard Doty, Disinformation, and the MJ-12 Controversy

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Former AFOSI agent Richard Doty is accused of running a decades‑long UFO disinformation campaign around Paul Bennewitz in the 1980s, admitting to deceiving Bennewitz and his family to shield base secrets, while AFOSI statements and FOIA files give conflicting signals about a formal investigation and Moore and Shandera’s MJ‑12 documents helped fuel a broader ufology debate that calls on the Air Force to acknowledge what happened and its harm to Bennewitz and public trust.