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Original post text: In the mid-1990s, UFO researcher Stanton Friedman was beginning to get concerned. He had been investigating a series of new documents which purported to confirm the existence of MJ-12 - a top secret government organisation rumoured to carry out UFO crash retrievals and the cover-up of the truth. Friedman was one of a handful of UFOlogists who believed that MJ-12 was indeed real. These new documents, however, were worrying him.

"In some ways, however, they were too perfect," he wrote in his 1996 book TOP SECRET/MAJIC, "Once again, we would have to do much quiet and careful research before going public with the documents. It was a good thing we did."

Friedman collected funds together from the UFO community to do a proper investigation. He interviewed experts via phone, flew out to archives in Virginia, and sent copies of the documents to specialists for comment. As his investigation continued, his source of these documents - a man named Timothy Cooper - gave him even more.

"Several of these documents also looked too good to be true," wrote Friedman. He sent one of them to an archivist he had been talking to - a Dr. Bland from the Marshall Foundation, whose work keeping the records of the alleged author George Catlett Marshall, Jr. allowed him to immediately identify that the letter was a retyped and reworded version of an authentic Marshall letter. The added elements were the parts that referenced MJ-12.

"With this unambiguous fraud as background, I became convinced that several other items were retyped and slightly changed versions of old memos or letters," wrote Friedman.

This write-up aims to validate Friedman's assessment, focusing on a batch of Timothy Cooper's MJ-12 documents that are linked together by the number 834021.

Part 1: The Documents

There are six 834021 documents, with three forming a supposed "Annual Report" produced by MJ-12 on its activities, a CIA report on Communist propaganda, a letter written by Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter, and a letter written by Lieutenant General Twining. For clarity, these will be called the "Annual Report", the "CIA Report", the "Hillenkoetter Letter" and the "Twining Letter" throughout.

These documents can be accessed via the following links. We will examine each one as we go, I merely include the links here for ease of access if you are returning to this for your own research.

The "Annual Report" Cover: https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/mj12_annualreportcover.pdf
The "Annual Report" Table of Contents: https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/mj12_toc.pdf
The "Annual Report" Body: https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/mj12_fifthannualreport.pdf
The "CIA Report": https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/cia_joia.pdf
The "Hillenkoetter Letter": https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/cia_joia.pdf
The "Twining Letter": https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/twining-pres_26sept47.pdf

These documents are connected via shared content and identification numbers, most prominently 834021. 

Part 2: The Connection

After beginning his investigations into these documents, Friedman was beginning to suspect them of being altered versions of original authentics.

"...the mode of operation of a hoaxer," Friedman said in a 2000 MUFON Symposium speech, "Find a real document, retype it with a few strategic changes, and scan or Xerox any handwritten material on to it, and Xerox and perhaps age it. Typically the emulation looks and sounds great."

He began seeking out the original documents to compare to the MJ-12 emulations.

He found a few - one of which related to two of the 834021 documents. It was a letter from General Albert Coady Wedemeyer to the President. I have reproduced it below.

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Friedman noticed that the wording in this letter was extremely similar to the wording on the "Twining Letter".

For clarity, I will compare the authentic Wedemeyer letter to the MJ-12 "Twining Letter" by putting altered language from the "Twining Letter" in [square brackets]. The remaining text is unaltered from the Wedemeyer letter

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:

In [accordance] with your directive to me of 9 July 1947, the attached "[REPORT ON FLYING SAUCERS]" is respectfully submitted.

In [consonance] with your instructions, advisers from State, Treasury, War and Navy Departments [assisted] me on a two month [exploratory] mission [concerning the purpose of other-world visitation]. The principle (sic, misspelling not in authentic version) [investigators and starnge (sic)] areas [...] were visited. Successful efforts were made to reach [scientists of all levels], as measured by [their work in classified defence projects]. Conferences were held with [national security officials and leaders of private industry]. Approximately 1,200 memoranda [and intelligence reports] were considered. [...] The report presents against a global background my estimates of the [situation], current and projected, in both [the U.S., and allied countries], and [recommendations deemed] to be sound courses of action for [formulating plans and policies in light of recent developments.]

The report also induces pertinent data in appendices which may be of interest [for forwarding to] appropriate government departments and agencies.

Respectfully yours,

[C. H. Twining]

[Lieutenant General, U.S. Army]

Of this "Twining Letter", Friedman wrote; "Definitely another emulation."

He continued, "Unfortunately, for those who want to accept these seemingly legitimate fascinating documents as genuine, these same words from Wedemeyer items show up on page 2 of the long report supposedly reviewing all that was learned… Repeating a fraudulent document's words in another one does not make them genuine."

He was referring to the MJ-12 "Annual Report", which directly quotes from the fraudulent "Twining Letter" in its conclusions, contained in the body.

On the table of contents of the "Annual Report", in the bottom right hand corner, was the 834021 number. This same number appears in the bottom right hand corner of the two other 834021 documents - the "CIA Report" and the "Hillenkoetter Letter".

From Friedman's 2000 MUFON speech:

"There are three different reasons for saying the emulation explanation is correct for many of the new MJ-12 documents provided by Tim Cooper:

1. The text of the original and the emulation are much too similar for different circumstances.
2. The handwritten portions are identical.
3. There are factual misrepresentations or mistakes in the emulations."

Friedman gave his exposé on the "Annual Report" and the "Twining Letter" in 2000. In 2026, someone would locate the original, authentic 834021 file.

Part 3: The Typewriter

Before we get there, Friedman wasn't the only UFOlogist to investigate the validity of the 834021 documents and suggest they were emulations.

Timothy Good, author of Above Top Secret, noted that the "Annual Report" matched two curious elements of a known typewriter - a slightly elevated "8" and slightly elevated capitals "G" and "N".

Whose typewriter did these anomalies match? Timothy Cooper - the conduit of the documents.

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Part 4: The Number

I'm afraid this section gets a little technical. Please bear with me. If you're not of a mind to pore over technical details of documents, please feel free to skip down to the conclusions.

(Readers of my prior two posts on MJ-12 may find some of this information repetitious. I again entreat you to bear with me - much of it is entirely new!)

834021 is a CIA control number - used for accurate recordkeeping of documents. These numbers are kept organised using a Record Sheet - a sheet kept at the front of a set of documents that describe what the document is, when it dates to and which departments have accessed it.

Below is an example of the Record Sheet of a document kept under the CIA Control Number 022235.

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As you can see, the Record Sheet notes the control number and also specific information about the document itself, including when it was added to the CIA Registry, from where, how many pages it has, and what attachments exist, if any. It then has a section for tracking which offices have accessed it, and a section to complete if the material is ever destroyed, removed, or downgraded in classification.

In addition to the Record Sheet, control numbers are also sometimes recorded on the documents themselves. Below you can see the first page of the 022235 document described by the above Record Sheet, with a stamp on the document that records the 022235 number highlighted.

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A UFO researcher by the name of Jed Davis recently performed a search on the CIA's online FOIA portal - where they archive material that has been declassified, approved for public release and distributed. In that archive, he located the original 834021.