I always read Alfred Webre with the same enthusiasm I used to have when I read strange fiction. Since my taste for fiction has waned, reality based theories of the extremely bizarre has filled the void. As entertaining as Webre is, I can read him mostly on a fictional level. If I began to think of some of his subjects as being real, I would get the same uneasy feeling I get when I read channels who I discern as being off track. It's purely subjective. There are, no doubt, people who believe some of his more fantastic theories without question. I am not one of them.
This falling out between Alfred Webre and Michael Salla, two vanguard writers of the Exopolitics movement, comes as something of a surprise. Though Salla's assessment of Webre's mind-set and writing style (depicting themes as solidly based in reality) is valid, I never thought there was as much animosity between these two men as Salla's article suggests. You get the feeling he was playing with kid gloves when it came to Webre, until at last the gloves had to come off altogether.
Backstory is always helpful, and some of the information brings otherwise obscure notions into clear focus.
From Michael Salla's article: ...I want to begin by saying that I have always admired Webre for the principled stand he took in 1977 when he refused pressure to have him abandon his research interests in extraterrestrial communications that the Carter White House had taken an interest in. That took guts, and Alfred paid a very heavy price. At the time he was a futurist with the Stanford Research Institute and his promising career came to a crashing halt. He had to flee the country to escape the electronic mind control that was being used against him. Unfortunately, Webre shows many of the classic symptoms of a mind control victim. Brilliant and deeply insightful at times, but also with an unsteady, unbalanced, narcissistic personality that is easily provoked, and with a huge chip on his shoulders. I understand his anger, after all who wouldn't be if your career was destroyed decades ago by unseen powers that used hidden technological resources to undermine you. My experience with Andy Basiago from the time I first met him in 2006, is that he is also a mind control victim, and is currently tasked to manipulate and handle Webre by cleverly massaging Alfred's fragile personality by claiming that he, Webre, would single handedly lead an exopolitics revolution on planet Earth.
The above paragraph explains a lot to people who follow these two writers, especially where Alfred Webre might have been coming from in his approach to exopolitics, as well as many of the people he interviewed.