For Your Eyes Only

History

W. Todd Zechel published For Your Eyes Only: Intelligence Reports and Commentary through his Paragon Independent News Service (a division of Paragon Productions) from PO Box 632, Sauk City, Wisconsin 53583. Three issues appeared between 1986 and 1987. The newsletter prohibited reprints, quotes, or other use of its material without permission. It carried no subscription price in the masthead, suggesting controlled circulation rather than public sale.

Zechel was formerly Research Director of Ground Saucer Watch, one of the most aggressive UFO organisations in pursuing government documents through Freedom of Information Act requests during the late 1970s. By 1986, he had repositioned himself as an intelligence commentator, and For Your Eyes Only reflected that shift: the newsletter read less like a UFO bulletin and more like a parapolitics journal with intelligence community sourcing.

The second issue (also 1986) shifted to geopolitics: the Washington Post's role in disseminating CIA-sourced claims about Libyan responsibility for the Berlin disco bombing, which provided the justification for Reagan's April 1986 airstrikes. Zechel analysed how the NSA's claimed intercepts of Libyan communications were fed to the Post as "irrefutable evidence," and noted that the Libyans responded by executing an official in their East Berlin embassy they identified as a CIA informant.

The third issue (1987) reportedly continued the Kennedy assassination investigation ("They Killed Kennedy: Was Garrison Right?"), connecting intelligence agency operations to the New Orleans investigation by District Attorney Jim Garrison. The newsletter's scope was intelligence community operations broadly, with the UFO connection running through the Klass material and Zechel's thesis that Klass functioned as an intelligence asset tasked with debunking UFO reports.