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picture complete, or are other elements of modern mythology about to be drawn into this complex web? There are already clues: Stuart Holroyd’s ‘biography’ of the Nine, which was commissioned by Lab Nine, gave the subtext of this message away in the title: Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth. Another, apparently unconnected book, The Secret School by Whitley Strieber, has as its subtitle Preparation for Contact. In fact, this is no coincidence: bestselling author Strieber, most widely known for the tales of personal contact with aliens told in Communion, Transformation, Breakthrough and Confirmation, brings the last major part of the scenario into play.
    Only in 1987 did Communion first catapult the alien abduction phenomenon into public consciousness. In the few years since we have seen such an explosion — virtually an epidemic — of claimed abductions that the image of the Grey alien is now firmly embedded in our minds as, at the very least, a cultural icon. But to many people the Greys are considerably more than semi-cartoon characters: at least 35 per cent of all Americans now believe that these sinister extraterrestrials are repeatedly abducting humans on a vast scale. 3 This belief has, virtually overnight, begun to take on quasireligious overtones. Strieber, in The Secret School, passes on nine lessons given to him by the aliens for all mankind, specifically linking their message to the Face on Mars, which he claims to have been shown by his alien captor/tutors when he was a child, and to the New Egyptology of Hancock, Bauval and West. It is, as we will see, no accident that The Secret School enthusiastically, even incongruously, carries an endorsement by none other than Graham Hancock: ‘Everyone concerned with the awesome mystery of what we are and what we may become should read The Secret School.’ (Perhaps significantly, we have already identified the ‘Secret School’ as an alternative title of the Synarchist ‘Council of Nine’ of the 1930s.)
    Hancock and Strieber may simply admire each other’s books, and the matter may end there. But other, thought-provoking connections lie just under the surface, allowing many of the pieces of the jigsaw to fall finally into place. For example, Strieber had worked with Richard Hoagland, and funded Mark Carlotto’s image enhancement work at Hoagland’s request as early as 1985, two years before his first ‘abduction’ book, Communion, was published. 4
    Strieber was introduced to Richard Hoagland by a mutual friend in the summer of 1984, but he makes some puzzling comments about the Mars research in his account in Breakthrough (1997). In discussing Mark Carlotto’s enhancement of the Viking images, which used the advanced equipment made available to him through the intelligence division of The Analytical Science Corporation, he writes: ‘The fact that the Mars face was reimaged on the best equipment known to man in 1985 and came out looking even more like a sculpture had been efficiently suppressed.’ 5 It is difficult to begin to understand how the subject could be described as having been ‘efficiently suppressed’ given that Hoagland has been telling anyone who would listen about the Face — including the United Nations — besides lecturing and selling books and videos on the subject ever since.
    The Secret School, however, reveals the subtext of Strieber’s writings, and adds another piece to our complex jigsaw. This 1997 book describes the recovery, beginning in 1995, of further memories of his lifelong alien abduction experiences, specifically those long suppressed from his Texan childhood in the mid- to late 1950s. He recalls being part of the ‘Secret School’, a group of child abductees who were given lessons by their Grey captors. Although Strieber believes that he ‘attended’ this school for a number of years during his childhood, the memories recovered and lessons presented in the book were those given to him at the age of