Richard Doty
Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent who, by his own later admission, ran disinformation operations in the UFO world - most notoriously feeding Paul Bennewitz fabricated alien evidence. A living emblem of official UFO disinformation, and a caution the map's credibility layer exists to flag.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufo". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.
None of this entity's 2 connections has a source you can open. 1 was tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.
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tested against Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume IThe claim we testedcontinues the official UFO-debunking/disinformation posture the 1953 Robertson Panel first recommended (analyst note)What the document actually saysThere was at least one USG proposal - by the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel - to engage in an active "training" and "debunking" effort using various public media tools to steer the public away from reporting UFOs.Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
printed p. 27 · read off the page footerWhy we refused it. AARO CONFIRMS THE PROPOSAL AND SAYS NOTHING ABOUT DOTY. The link's own text calls itself an analyst note, which is the honest label for it; this document sources the first half of the sentence and none of the connection the link actually draws. -
the AFOSI agent who fed him fabricated alien evidence, contributing to his breakdownGreenwood & Bishop, Project Beta; R. Doty AFOSI disclosures (HuffPost 2014; The Debrief)