And believe me, during my time in the late 70s up to the 80s, we were good at it.
We were very, very, very good at disinformation.
We call it counterintelligence operations to protect special access programs.
And we were very, very good at it.
And let me give you an example of what we did.
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When I worked out at Area 51, Nellis Test and Training Range, most of that area was in Nye County. Back in those days, prostitution was legal in Nye County. So we were afraid that the people that were working on classified projects, and believe me, there were many highly classified programs and projects going on at Tonopah Air Base or Area 51 or even in Nevada Test Site. So what we did was we went out and we recruited every single prostitute in Nye County. Basically, every prostitute in that county, and even in Esmeralda County, which kind of borders it, were under our control.
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We paid them.
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We paid them more than they were getting doing tricks because we were afraid that military air force, primarily air force people, would come and be serviced by them.
And believe me, that happened all the time.
We didn't want the information that they had leaking through them, through the prostitutes, out to the public.
So we owned them all.
And we made some big, major operations stopping the leak of information, classified information out of special projects, from being leaked into the public by disinformation.
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So that's just one example.
Can I ask you a question?
I know you're married.
Were you married then?
No, I was not married then.
Oh, so then you could go and hang out with ladies of the night and exchange cash.
And that sounds like a pretty good, a pretty fun gig.
And one that you could get away with because you weren't married.
I can just see you at one of these brothels doing this.
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When you're talking, were you trying to get information back out of these women of ill repute, these ladies of the night, to see if somebody was talking to them?
Well, yes.
What we did was we approached them and we told them right up front, uh, you're going to have tricks that are Air Force or military people.
And they might tell you some information that could be classified.
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So we want to know about that.
And we're going to pay you money.
So sure enough, they'll call, they'd call us.
Not everyone.
I mean, there were a lot of Air Force people that went there and there and did their thing and paid their 30 or $40 for their pleasure and never said anything or never disclosed anything.
But there were a lot of them that went in there and tried to impress the prostitutes by saying, you know, I'm working on this really classified project out there.
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And, and, you know, there's aliens out there and these things like that.
Wow. So what they would do is they would immediately contact us and, and say, listen, we got it.
You know, I had a trick that told me some information.
So then we had to go out there and it wasn't just me.
There were a lot of other agents involved in this.
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And they were going out there and they would talk to, to the, to the prostitute and say, well, you know, he's just trying to impress you.
None of that stuff is real.
You know, and, and we would have to give, provide them with this information.
And so that's how it worked.
And we actually, one Air Force pilot that was flying back in those days in the early eighties, uh, the F-117 stealth aircraft was, uh, uh, was being tested out there.
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And it's highly classified back then.
This pilot went in and told her, his prostitute that he was flying this really super secret plane called the F-119, not the F-117. And he told, he told them that he told his prostitute that all the technology was from the aliens. They gave it to us.
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So, uh, they, you know, we had to really, really press this particular prostitute.
And, uh, we ended up, uh, finding the, of course, finding the Air Force captain, kicking him out of the program and kicking him out of the Air Force. So, yeah, I can, I can hear it now.
Dougherty sure is spending a lot of time out at Mary's fun palace.
But okay.
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