The Cover-up became covered up from the cover-up

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In the great cloud of unknowing that had descended upon the Pentagon with respect to the Roswell package, the five or six of us in the navy, air force, and army who actually knew what we had didn’t confide in anyone outside his own branch of the military and certainly didn’t talk to the CIA. So, in a way that could only happen inside the military bureaucracy, the cover-up became covered up from the cover-up, leaving the few of us in the know free to do whatever we wanted.

The Day After Roswell

Hi. Can I interpret the underlined sentence as "the few of us and the CIA were both covering up the information about Roswell but the CIA, thinking it had covered up everything, failed to notice that the most critical part of the information was covered up by us from it, so this actually was a cover-up (by us) within a cover-up (by the CIA)"?

("it" refers to the CIA)

Please correct me if I was wrong.

Thank you.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

zuotengdazuoCan I interpret the underlined sentence as

All I can say is good luck. This guy is no writer. Also, he is talking about a UFO legend and therefore is free to lie. He is also therefore likely to be a nutbar who thinks he is making sense when he himself doesn't realize that there is no sense to be made. That, or he thinks he is going to be read by nutbars who prefer to be confused and mystified, and he is cynically stirring the whole thing with a stick. Good luck.

The Cover-up became covered up from the cover-up

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