Mystery AtlasRichard Doty
Former US Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) counterintelligence agent who has said on record, including in interviews with journalist Greg Bishop and in the 2013 documentary Mirage Men, that he fed fabricated documents and disinformation to Paul Bennewitz and other UFO researchers in the early 1980s to discredit Bennewitz and protect classified programmes near Kirtland Air Force Base.
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Theories & Explanations
- Dulce Base Conspiracy Theoryfrom 1979
Richard Doty popularised Dulce Base Conspiracy Theory — Doty has said on record, including in interviews with journalist Greg Bishop and in the 2013 documentary Mirage Men, that he fed Bennewitz fabricated documents and disinformation in the early 1980s, manufacturing and amplifying core elements of the Dulce mythology as a deliberate AFOSI counterintelligence operation.
People
- Paul Bennewitz1927–2003
Richard Doty targeted Paul Bennewitz — As an AFOSI counterintelligence agent, Doty has said on record that he fed Bennewitz fabricated documents and false information from around 1981, an operation Doty says was intended to discredit Bennewitz and protect classified Kirtland-area programmes; the campaign is widely reported to have contributed to Bennewitz's 1988 psychiatric hospitalisation.
Organisations & Programmes
Richard Doty was a member of United States Air Force — Doty served as a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), a US Air Force investigative unit, during the 1980s operation against Bennewitz.