Wingmakers

JT,
Ah, one of my "sore points". I originally posted what I found out about wingmakers on the old Cass site (before the redesign) under the old guestbook.

I said:
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"A "complete" hoax? Maybe not, carefully consider the wording. I would prolly say    "nearly complete".

Besides all the strange newsgroup postings(which I admit could have been forged) there are a number of other clues.

1) Mr. Hempel has worked for Microsoft and the DOD(Department of Defense)

2) A newsgroup posting from 1995 indicates Mr. Hempel not only is familiar with oil painting but feels comfortable enough to supply advice. The address was WingMakers@msn.com

3)Here's one for you Bill...Mr. Hempel was(is?) a pianist in a group called "Soul Food". The same people who produced the music for his site. Interestingly enough they came out with a CD shortly before the site opened that has "very similar" music.

4) This ones a bit a of stretch(uncomfirmed). There is a cartoonist that does a strip called "Tug & Buster". This is an adult comic that has strangely archetypical characters. Author? Marc Hempel. Dunno if they're the same person or not.

So...looking at what's on the site I have to ask the following questions.

1) Is it likely that he could have (or knows) someone to do the paintings? Answer: Yes

2) Is it likely he could have done the music? Answer: Yes

3) Does he have the know-how to create a site that is obviously a cut above normal? Answer: Yes

4) If he is the same man as the cartoonist would his archetypical views allow him to create a site like this? Answer: Yes

A true story? Doubtful.. Are there really caves in New Mexico(or elsewhere?) Maybe. Is this a story about real people? Doubtful.. Divinely inspired fiction? Most likely if any of it is true at all.
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Then there is this at http://blogs.orgonite.com/dor2or/10 :

Post# 59536 03/24/04 Cbswork

"The Wingmakers were a fiction, a lie, an agency operation that we exposed in detail, for the express purpose of placing psychics in the public eye, using Mark's wingmaker site as the drop-in vector, and then hi-jacking the whole Sylph Movement."

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Now 2 1/2 years after I posted my synopsis on the original cass site I still maintain that it is in fact a lie, a psyop, and a few other phrases I won't repeat here.

In effect it is the blueprint of "wishful thinking" on the part of the STS. I couldn't get past two chapters before I was so nauseated I couldn't continue.

Edit: Bad Grammar