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14 Peter Robbins Explains Left at East Gate

Peter Robbins Explains takes you to places you would rather not go. It’s ones to it. If the picture appears anywhere on the
the reason I choose to correct my errors in internet, Image Search will find it. As it turned
His Take on Left at East public, be they mistakes I discovered after the out a pair of pictures comes right up. They were
fact or ones brought to my attention by others. taken seconds before or after the one you’re
Gate Maybe most important, there has never been a paired with John in, only they have a

clause excluding truths that might prove completely different background, and John’s
Continued from Page 13 embarrassing to me, or for that matter, to you, mouth is as clear as the rest as the photograph
and that’s what this has all come down to. and not with the mouth strangely smudged as in
I want to keep what I have to say as the one of you and John. Yours is a bogus
FYI John has had nothing but respect and
admiration for you from the first time he read focused as I can. I have come to a point in my photograph Larry yet you insist it’s not. Not
Left At East Gate some years back up until last life where I no longer have any interest in good.
researching, investigating or otherwise actively As I wrote to you in June, there is no
month when you couldn’t be bothered to send
studying that thing alternatively known as the way I will ever believe that you neglected or
him a note, see him, or even speak to him while
Woodbridge Lights, the RAF Bentwaters forgot to mention to me that 2 days before you
visiting his hometown. There is no question in
incident, or the Rendlesham Forest UFO flew from the States to England to begin your
my mind that this extremely talented and
incident. I will not doubt be compelled to talk Air Force assignment there you met and were
dedicated man would have raised the substantial
about aspects of RFI now and again, return to photographed with John Lennon in New York
amount of money necessary with the Canadian
Deliberate Deception and Halt In Woodbridge City.
government likely underwriting part of the
production. Early this year I spent hours and again, especially now that Charles Halt’s book Then that you expected me to believe
hours going through every single box of LAEG- is out or about to be published, but otherwise you had withheld this fact from both me and
have no desire whatsoever to wade back out into from Left At East Gate because you were saving
related material I’d collected in 29 years,
RFI research and investigation. And while my it for your next book? Yes, I know that you have
including copies of every single audiotape, still
career in UFO studies may take a hit as a result, met many famous and interesting people in your
photo, VHS tape, DVD of film, TV, conference,
I could care less. There are other areas of UFO life, people who you do not mention in our
documentary or self-shot footage I had that we
studies I’m involved in or that interest me. More book, but please, in the words of the great judge
appeared in, all for John to take home, review,
important, I want to get on with a life beyond Judy, ‘Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s
digitally transfer where necessary, then - with
our approval - include clips from in his film. Bentwaters. To some degree at least I have raining.’ In my entire life I never met anyone –
The attention he paid to each piece of material forced myself to follow the general dialogue, anyone - more interested or obsessed in John
he went thru or filmed during the time he spent various attacks and counter-attacks, assorted Lennon’s life, work, history, instruments, etc.,
posts as well as parts of ‘Left Out of east Gate’ then you, and that goes back to from when we
here in February was impressive to say the least
etc. It’s just that ‘dialogue,’ your part as well as first met. I do not believe, not for a moment, that
and he departed for Toronto with both of us
the voices of assorted others, has succeeded in given how heartfelt you were in writing up how
excited and optimistic about this once-in-a-
all but killing the interest I had had in the John’s murder affected you, and how you and
lifetime project.
subject for so long. But first I gear up for one other guys attended the huge memorial that
In the event you’ve forgotten, early last
more round of RFI investigative work, once weekend in Liverpool, and that you never
year before we decided to drop John’s offer to
pursue Peter B’s feature film option (and don’t again dedicated to substantiating my coauthor’s bothered to mention to me that you just
we wish we hadn’t), John sent us a draft for a claims if at all possible. happened to meet (and be photographed with)
contract. Bob Freedman reviewed it in detail, As you know I specifically zeroed in one John Lennon in New York City the week before
of the photos I found on Sacha’s website, the he was murdered? I get angrier just thinking
communicated with John about it, and felt it
one purporting to be of you and John Lennon. about it. What I hated most about being lied to
was definitely in our interests to move forward
The reason I chose it was because to my like this was just how insulting it was to my
on. You were sent copies of all communications
untrained eye it appeared to be the crudest, most intelligence. But it wasn’t just to me of course.
between them, them and me, and of course a
cut-and-paste-looking picture in the bunch. I It was a lie to everyone who sees your posts. In
copy of the contract draft itself. I also sent you
even imagined, and wrote the same to you, that doing so you ‘opened the door’ as they say, to
a copy of the detailed working outline for the
documentary that John and I had put together, somehow Sacha and/or Dave had managed to the unwelcome reality of a permanent cloud of
this subject to any changes, adjustments, create a fake FB screengrab of it. Remember? reasonable doubt hanging over other things you
additions, ideas or whatever else that you When you responded “pete the pict is real,” I have said, maintained, or are otherwise on
was all but bowled over. It led me to revisit your record with, and more’s the pity. In this case, if
wanted to make. The draft made clear that we
earlier FB postings and find the photo where you had faked a photograph once, might you
would have each been paid for our participation
you’d posted it earlier in June. You deleted it not have done it another time? And if you would
in the project. When you asked me for John’s
that long afterward. In response to your claims fake a photo, might you also fake something
contact information just before you and Dennis
of the picture’s authenticity, I pulled up every else? The answer sadly is yes on both counts
departed for Toronto (or once you were there? I
single photo I had of you taken when you were and you and only you are responsible for
forget) I thought, maybe there was still a chance
you were going to connect with him and pull 19 and 20, comparing them all to each other, creating the reasonable doubt that it springs
this out of the fire. All you had to do was ask Sid then comparing them to ones taken years after, from.
to email him for his phone number, but you then compared each of the 19-20 year old Larry
photos to the one allegedly taken Nov 28 1980 (Continued on Page 15)
chose to let it slide, and with it, what could have
in New York City. Larry, there is no question
been a feature documentary every bit as good as
that your face in that picture is broader and From the Pages of “Did You Know?”
‘Travis’ if not better. You and your paranoia
wider than any of the photos of you taken in by Rob McConnell:
were responsible for torpedoing this great
1980 and 1981. That broadening of the face is
project and not John or me. All I can add is that
something that comes with age, and there is also
it’s a damn shame. DYK...The word mattress originally meant,
In past when I’ve asked what you no question that your hairline is receding in the “place to throw things.”
thought my ‘agenda’ was, you’ve always gone Nov 28 picture, something that is definitely not DYK...About 75% of all gold mined each
quiet. You said in a July message that I never happening in actual photos of you taken in 1980 year is made into jewelry.
and 1981.
really ‘got you,’ and I guess that’s proved to be DYK...Charles Darwin’s cousin invented the
Even so, I still did not want to believe
something of an understatement. I did ‘get’ IQ test.
you were responsible for creating the photo. In
some of you, but looking back I don’t seem to DYK...Kangaroos are lactose-intolerant.
an attempt to exclude this possibility, I used
have been nearly as good an investigator as I DYK...Why are boxing rings called rings?
Google’s ‘Reverse Image Search’ to see if I
thought I was a quarter century ago. But I have Because they used to be round.
could rule out a similar, separate photo of John.
always had ‘an agenda.’ Corny as it may sound,
it has always been to follow the evidence Image Search works a lot like modern Available at
wherever it leads you, then to tell the truth about fingerprint search technology. You enter any www.robmcconnell.ca
it as best I’m able. This even when evidence photo ever taken, then search for it or the closest