The men who got carried away and for the long-term survival of the human race. Why? Because the Space Brothers said so, that’s why. Screw the FBI and their intimidating visit, Hunrath concluded. He was long gone, and Hoover’s mob would never know he was shouting his mouth off in Ohio. Wrong.
Words from Williamson Of course someone sat up and took notice when Hunrath started on about his plans to knock US Air Force planes out the air for the apparently lessthan-friendly Space Brothers. Actually, when Hunrath got on his rant, quite a few people straightened their backs, opened their ears, and put on their government-regulation suits, fedora hats, and black sunglasses. Hunrath did not know it right away, but even before he reached the West Coast he was being closely watched by men dressed in black. (What other color could it really be?) In early to-mid-1952, Hunrath finally reached Los Angeles and wasted no time at all in hooking up with the major UFO players in and around town, as George Hunt Williamson recalled to Frank Gibson: “It was in the winter of 1952 that I first met Karl at George Adamski’s on Mount Palomar. . . . During the next few months he visited many saucer researchers including: Frank Scully, Gene Dorsey, George Van Tassel . . . and he was my house guest in Prescott, Arizona for a week.” Williamson continued: He [Hunrath] was a strange man who would change his mind and ideas from one moment to the next. You couldn’t help but like him, but at times a feeling would come over you that made you wish there were a million miles between yourself and Mr. Hunrath. Everyone who came in contact with him had the same experience. He visited saucer researchers as a friend, then, systematically began to spread rumors about them and their work, which had no basis in fact. He came to California unknown and soon was stirring up dissension wherever he went. Was it his purpose to cause trouble in the “hot-bed” of controversy
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