EBK and List,

Here's the rest of John Ford's account surrounding his arrest.

Early in the fall of 1995 Preston Nichols and I were checking out stories that there was something strange about the East End Forest Fires of August 1995. We made a couple trips out to the locations where the Forest Fires had started outside of Riverhead near the Riverhead campus of Suffolk Community College. We searched the woods and the area near the campus area. We were looking for signs of a UFO crash or possibly according to Preston signs of a misfire of a particle beam weapon based at Brookhaven Laboratory. We even questioned a couple of residents to no avail.

A week later, I received a call from our Hypno-Therapists, Gary and Dottie Tritt, members of LIUFON, to tell me that their office receptionist had information about a UFO Crash outside Riverhead. The next day I went to their office with a concealed tape recorder and engaged the receptionist in a conversation while secretly taping it. She told me the whole story.

It seems she bought a used car from a gentleman who sells used cars in Flanders outside Riverhead. He lives near the crash site. On the day of the start of the Forest Fires, he was dirt biking near the campus when he heard something crash in the woods, something big. He proceeded thru the woods up a footpath and in a clearing discovered a Crashed UFO in the woods. He went back to his house and called his brother-in- law who was a FBI agent from the Hauppauge office. He and his brother-in-law went back to the crash site and discovered both the Air Force and the FBI there securing the location. He and his brother-in-law were taken to the FBI office in the Federal Building in Hauppauge and were questioned being sworn to secrecy.

We made overtures to the witness to talk to us but he denied everything and refused to meet with us. We had to take this as a serious situation and an actual event but without the witness we couldn't make a public comment. I did tell Joe Mazzuchelli about the event and so did Preston Nichols but it went nowhere.

About my friend "John" in the CIA: He too became a Court Officer and worked in Brooklyn with me. He became a legend in the CIA and rose to supervisor level becoming the Northeast Sector Director for Clandestine Operations for the CIA. A post he held for some 25 years before retiring from it. He went to law school, graduated becoming a law secretary to a judge and is currently employed as such.

Returning to the incident with Joe Mazzuchelli and the aftermath. We in LIUFON were deeply concerned over the incident putting a bulletin out to the membership and even asked Joe to speak at one of our membership meetings which he declined. There was meetings with Preston Nichols, Steve Iavarone and Tony West plus Joe Zuppardo where it was discussed and debated as to its implications. Preston Nichols got the names of four retired Brookhaven Lab employees who were given to him by one of his intelligence contacts. We quietly checked them out and they were not the ones. We were at a lost to learn the identities of the thugs and who sent them.

It should be noted at this juncture that in May 1995 I had a visit from my friend "John" and his son. I hadn't seen him in a number of years and it was now the first time I had met his son who was a baby boy when I last saw him now a young man of 17 years.

"John" ostensibly came to visit me and see how I was doing after learning I had to retire with a disability. He and his son showed a deep interest in my UFO research and the South Haven Park UFO Crash. Before he left he warned me that my UFO Research and our organization was an irritant to the political establishment in Suffolk County.

I had been warned to be careful.

In August of 1995, I took a vacation on the Royal Carribbean's 'Majesty of Seas,' for a cruise of the Carribbean to Mexico for seven days. I had been taking care of my mother for three years without any help from my family until February 1995 when the doctors determined that she needed professional care full time and should be confined to a nursing home since her condition had deteriorated.

Confined in a nursing home where she was receiving care better than I could. I felt I could sneak away for a vacation. Flying to Miami, I boarded the ship only to be called to the concierge desk fifteen minutes later where two women speaking Hebrew told me I had my dinner table seating changed to another table.

This was "deja-vu" because I have had it done to me before when I took cruises. The CIA would send people to watch me for my protection utilizing the same technique, placing people to watch me at my dinner seating.

At the table I was seated with 12 people, 9 of whom were Jewish (with six of them traveling on Canadian Passports). I knew that Israeli agents always in the Northern Hemisphere traveled on Canadian Passports. I suspected the Mossad was watching me.

Returning to Mazzuchelli's case, he came to my house two weeks after the incident to discuss the situation. At the time he told me that he was an agent of the Mossad sent to make contact with me to provide protection for my safety. He explained that because of my research specifically the Riverhead Crash I had alarmed the politicians in Suffolk County. He informed me that the attack on him had been meant for me with the Mossad alerted to the threat weeks before, planning to thwart it at the moment of attack. It had been local thugs employed to attack me, but they had asked the CIA to help with the planning and execution. I was in danger of assassination and he plus 30 other agents were sent to provide protection for me.

He informed me that my friend John had been out to see me in May because he wanted to assess the situation. He was originally approach by the Israelis as to my choice as a contact. When John learned of the contracts on me he urged the Mossad to speed up their plans to contact me and provide protection. To prove his authenticity, he knew the names of other CIA people I knew plus details of my CIA background and what my involvement had been.

He told the following. Israeli jets in 1988 had shot down over the Negev desert a UFO and recovered the dead crew plus the intact craft. When Israel asked the U.S. for information on the alien presence on our world and all the information on UFOs, they encountered nothing but silence. Faced with a stone silence, Israel approached other nations for help and assistance. What emerged was a coalition of some 40 nations intelligence services opposed to the U.S. UFO cover-up and dedicated to overturning it. <Bold Emphasis RDM*, Editor>

They wanted to set up a nationwide network of organizations and researchers with LIUFON and myself as the leader of the effort in the United States. The Israelis were impressed with the organization and my research efforts. This coupled with my CIA background made this selection of me a natural leader.

After this Mazzuchelli told me that he had 30 agents in five houses in my development, which they either rented or bought to form a protective net around my home. They patrolled the street on which I lived day and night keeping me under constant surveillance and positioned agents in the woods behind my house. I was followed everywhere I went by the agents or either by the FBI or CIA.

Mazzuchelli moved in with me in my house for 3 1/2 months and did this to provide personal protection for me. On one occasion he took me to two houses and introduced me to some of the agents.

Some were American, some were definitely Israeli. The physical therapist at my doctor's office even turned out to be an Israel agent who they had placed there to supervise my treatment of my back injury. The girl was named Iris Goldstein and she was young and beautiful. Joe's friend Sal turned out to be an Israeli Colonel of the Mossad and was the finance chief of the operation.

One night a month later about 3 am in the morning, we drove to the Diamond District in Manhattan for a meeting with the heads of Israeli intelligence for the Eastern Seaboard. We discussed the operation and what was expected of me. The three that were present there told me that I would have unlimited financial support, access to classified information from the CIA files and intelligence support from 40 nations. They also told me that I would become internationally famous and LIUFON would become the most dominant and effect UFO Research Organization in the nation, but not before enduring ordeals, sacrifices and suffering. The last part had an ominous foreboding.

Mazzuchelli and his people protected me from at least 5 attempts, assassination attempts, and provided security for me up until June when they lifted the coverage and pulled their people out.

There was one night when Mazzuchelli ordered me and Preston Nichols off Long Island and to drive up to Albany for a night. This was because they had information that four agents were enroute from Washington to assassinate me and Preston.

By the morning, when we returned, the threat was unfounded because the four agents were sent to protect me. I took every rifle, shotgun and handgun I owned out of my gun cabinet, loaded them up and kept them accessible because I feared for my life. I carried a gun with me wherever I went.

Another thing, Mazzuchelli was a known Police informant according to an FBI agent friend of Steve Iavarone's and also according to statements made by Mazzuchelli to me.

It is not uncommon for deep cover and deep penetration agents to use the police for their purposes by establishing a close relationship with them. He told me he only informed on drug dealers to a detective friend in the Narcotics Unit.

Well according to the Doctor's report you know that the week before I was arrested Mazzuchelli moved out to get an apartment with his girlfriend. The weekend before I was arrested Preston Nichols brought three geiger counters for the organization. I needed to recalibrate and set the geiger counters so I had a friend Ed Szabo (also a CIA operative who I have known for thirty years) who had some radium samples. I contacted him and got the radium for the recalibration tests. The night before I was arrested he (Joe) brought a friend of his, Kevin Couch, who was one of his agents over to meet me.

I told him about the geiger counters, the recalibration tests and the radium plus the problem of disposing of the stuff. Kevin said he would bury the stuff the next night on his farm in Manorville after the recalibration tests were done by Preston Nichols the following night when he would come over at 10:00 p.m.

The night of the arrest, Joe Mazzuchelli arrived early by about an hour. Almost immediately we began to joke about the radium and the politicians (Tony Gozzolla, John Powell and James Towell) and what we could do to eliminate them.

I was told by Joe that Kevin was coming to pick up the stuff to bury it and when he arrived he wanted to scare Kevin who was going to transport it into thinking that the stuff was dangerous. I told him that the radium was for testing purposes only being completely harmless. Still Joe persisted that he wanted to scare Kevin. So I agreed to joke about it.

When Kevin arrived and when we started to scare him it lasted about 52 minutes. We were joking, laughing and carrying on scaring Kevin who thought we meant what we said.

Finally we were going outside to get the stuff when the police arrived and took me and Joe into custody. Kevin Couch was an informant and was wearing a wire transmitter to record the conversation.

The rest is history.

The End

Well, there it is in John Ford's own words. Is this just too strange, too bizarre to believe? Is it "Just plain unbelievable?"