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areas of memory storage. And if I thought about the affair at all, it was only to note that it had happened, that it was over and done with, and that I didn't dare to talk about it for reasons so numerous that it was the better part of valor to forget them, too. However, whoever or whatever is behind the scenes dealing out the cards of circumstances was not finished with the Axelrod affair. For at some point in 1976 (during the summer, I think), what might be called the second chapter of the Axelrod affair opened up. For I received in the mail, in a plain envelope which did not bear a return address or even a postmark, although it did have stamps. The envelope contained a book and nothing more. It was entitled Somebody Else Is On the Moon. The author's name was George Leonard. I spent the next few hours reading it, and then re-read it two more times. Apparently, at the time of my ultra-secret visit, Mr. Axelrod had already known that this book was coming out, and of course he had been interested in whether I knew the author or not. Leonard apparently had obtained NASA photographs of the Moon, which after all are in the public domain because most of NASA's work is funded by our tax-paying money. "What NASA knows," the frontispiece of the book began, "but won't divulge! With careful logic and reason, George Leonard has studied all the data (including official NASA photographs and the astronaut's Apollo tapes) to prove his theory of a highly advanced underground civilization that is working the surface of the Moon - mining, manufacturing, communicating, and building!" Leonard's book was filled with verifiable data, official photos, and sketches of structures etc., he created from the photos. Well, I can tell you I ran to my own drawings and spent a week comparing and recomparing them to the sketches and photos George Leonard had provided in his own book- Many of Leonard's sketches resembled some of mine. Yes indeed, the mysterious Mr. Axelrod had provided me feedback as promised, for there could be no doubt that it was his jolly self that sent Leonard's book to me. But could Leonard's book be considered adequate feedback? Well, if not completely, at least somewhat. For example, ARE there structures on the Moon? As Leonard pointed up, one of the most remarkable photos, taken by the astronauts of Apollo 12 on their flights around the Moon, portrays what is referred to as Super Rig 1971 (NASA photo 71-H-781) and which is very similar to another photo of a similar Super Rig (NASA photo 66-H-1293) taken five years earlier,