From My Informant: A Clandestine Meeting at the MI?

[_John Larsen]

And who was the "40ish, long-haired" guy?

John Hamer? He's been helping out with the Joseph Smith papers project.

[_dblagent007]

That a great question, dblagent. Here's an interesting, follow-up, "thought experiment" question: If the MI knew about additional Joseph Smith children, would they publish their findings? Or would they try to cover it up?

I think there would be silence. I can't imagine that they would publish their findings.

[_dblagent007]

Isn't Will Schryver a 40ish long haired guy?

[_Dr. Shades]

John Hamer? He's been helping out with the Joseph Smith papers project.

Is John Hamer a 40-ish, long-haired guy?

Even if he is, why would the Joseph Smith papers require Ugo Perego to conduct a paternity test?

[_harmony]

What I have learned is that (allegedly) sometime earlier this year, a very "fishy" meeting took place at the Maxwell Institute offices. As my "source" put it, "some tall 40ish guy with long hair came into the MI offices and was very quickly hustled into a conference room." Following this stranger into the conference room were Paul Hoskisson, DCP, Louis Midgley, and, most intriguingly, Ugo Perego and one of Hugh Nibley's sons. These individuals apparently stayed in the conference room for quite some time.

Who is Paul Hoskisson?

[_bcspace]

Hold on a second. . . upon further thought, it looks like I was wrong about something: Why would the long-haired guy be escorted into a closed-door meeting unless he was already determined to be a Smith descendant, which would mean that Perego would have already completed such "paternity testing" in advance? It makes no sense that he would be paid to conduct a second test. There's obviously something else afoot here. . . unless, like I said, they're trying to figure out who else from the same female ancestor might be a descendant of Smith (as opposed to her legal, legitimate husband). I didn't think any Nibley children were closely associated with FARMS, hence the speculation about common Smith ancestry. Of course, if the Nibley clan DON'T trace ancestry from such a plural wife, then that makes the notion of a "paternity test" all the more bizarre.

It's probably more likely that we've found the Kwisatz Haderach.

[_Droopy]

This is pretty bizarre.

You could have stopped right there Slim. That's as far as you needed to go.

[_The Nehor]

Now people holding a meeting on their own premises during daylight hours while other people unrelated to the meeting are in the building is now clandestine.

By your standards virtually every meeting that ever occurred is clandestine. Are congressional meetings also clandestine Scratch? Board meetings? The time I asked a guy I worked with to join me in my office to discuss a project? This board?

[_Gadianton]

I'm really intrigued by this new piece of intelligence. Just think, a secret meeting between mopologetic power brokers to keep something under wraps. That something must be incredibly important. The whole paternity/genetics stuff isn't exactly my area, I'm really enjoying some of the scenarios Shades has considered.

No doubt, the apologists at MAD are going to flip out over this one. Their reaction should tell us something interesting about the nature of the meeting I think.

[_Gadianton]

Who is Paul Hoskisson?

He's a Hebrew expert guy. A straight shooter from what I know, sort of on the fringe of apologetics.