Richard Doty AFOSI Disinformation Operation
Richard Doty, a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Kirtland Air Force Base, stated he was directed to contact civilian researcher Paul Bennewitz in 1980.
Doty delivered fabricated documents describing nonexistent extraterrestrial projects and altered radar records of craft sightings over the base.
The operation aimed to divert Bennewitz from ongoing classified aircraft testing at the installation.
Doty confirmed the materials originated inside AFOSI channels and that contact continued under those instructions for several years.