A PUBLIC APPEAL TO WALT BROWN: Release Jay Harrison's Archive

[Peter Lemkin]

I have no dog in this fight and haven't followed the issue close enough other than to know that various DPF members have been unhappy enough about the situation to begin and continue the current thread. That said, did folks here read Walt's response to Charles Drago (who is obviously ex-DPF) in Walt's autobio? I recall there is another reference to the controversy in his book too, but the following was the one I returned to and found at short notice. This is from somewhere within the final quarter of WALT'S JOURNEY - Appendix IV of his big Chronology. There are several other pages elsewhere in that volume that go into Joan Mellen's dealings with Walt and his with her.

The second paragraph of Walt Brown's mess-age, and the following expansion of that, is false and misrepresents what Charles wanted and was trying to say or have done. Completely! If Brown has been in the research community as long as he has and didn't know who C. Drago was, or couldn't quickly find out, he's been with his head up his ass all this time - for he neither researched [sic] who Drago was nor what he had actually proposed and why. Drago was also totally suspicious of Ollie Curme - in fact, he some parallels in Curme's and Brown's possible motives.

What most do not know is that Brown was FBI - and some of his actions make some, including me, wonder if he isn't still.....

Not only did he refuse me [after an agreement] to see the Plumlee-related materials, he forbade me to purchase his Chronology.

He has LOTS of explaining to do, IMO. He broke promises to many more persons than I have permission to mention; pulled some very suspicious/unethical 'moves' other than with me - again most of them I'm bound by confidentiality on - but a few know and all of them are quite upset at what he did in each of these events [which seem to all lean toward foiling transparency/forwarding of information/research - more like stifling it and/or keeping to himself - if there is a difference]. At some point these very important things will be able to be told, I hope; but now is not that time. He once even said he'd rather see Harrison's archives destroyed before he'd let anyone see them.

At best, he seems unbalanced - at worst.......