Threats Against Greer: 35 Years of Surviving What Others Didn't

Steven Greer has described multiple direct threats, assassination attempts, and surveillance operations directed at him over his 35-year disclosure career. While other key witnesses and researchers have been killed (Mallove, Meyer, McCandlish, the Michigan engineering team, potentially Eskridge), Greer has survived — and his account of how and why provides a window into how the suppression machine operates. DOCUMENTED THREATS AND INCIDENTS: DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON ATTACK: Greer has described being targeted by a directed energy weapon that caused a near-fatal medical episode. He developed a rare form of cancer (squamous cell carcinoma of the soft palate) which he attributes to directed energy targeting. He underwent treatment and survived. The specific cancer type and location are consistent with localized radiation exposure. Whether this was a weapon or natural occurrence cannot be definitively proven, but it occurred during a period of intense disclosure activity. POISONING: Greer has described at least one poisoning incident that required emergency medical treatment. As a former ER physician, he recognized the symptoms and sought immediate care. SURVEILLANCE: Continuous electronic surveillance of communications, including phone taps and monitoring of CSETI expedition communications. Multiple witnesses in his organization have confirmed unusual surveillance activity. THREATS TO FAMILY: Greer has described threats made against his family members as leverage to silence him — the same pattern described by Shawn Ryan (whose family was threatened after hosting Greer's whistleblowers). THE DEAD MAN'S SWITCH: Greer has stated publicly that he maintains extensive documentation — including names of individuals involved in illegal USAPs, specific programs, specific contractors, and specific criminal acts — in a dead man's switch arrangement. If he dies under suspicious circumstances, the information is released. This is the same strategy he advised Eugene Mallove to use (Mallove refused and was killed days later). Greer's survival may be partly attributable to the fact that killing him triggers a data release that would be more damaging than his continued testimony. WHY HE SURVIVED AND OTHERS DIDN'T: Greer's analysis: (1) Public profile — he's too well-known to kill quietly. Mallove, Meyer, McCandlish, and Eskridge were less publicly visible. (2) Dead man's switch — killing him releases the archive. (3) No single breakthrough technology — Mallove had a working free energy device, Meyer had a working water fuel cell, the Michigan team had working devices. Greer has testimony and documents, not hardware. You can discredit testimony; you can't discredit a working device, which is why device holders get killed. (4) Legal preparation — working with constitutional attorney Daniel Sheehan provides legal infrastructure that individual inventors lacked. THE PATTERN: The suppression machine operates on a gradient: (1) Ignore → (2) Discredit → (3) Threaten → (4) Attack → (5) Kill. Most people are stopped at levels 1-3. Those who persist to level 4 and survive (Greer, Shawn Ryan) become harder to silence because the attacks themselves become evidence. Those who reach level 5 (Mallove, Meyer, McCandlish, Eskridge) were typically isolated individuals without public profiles or dead man's switches, who possessed WORKING TECHNOLOGY rather than just testimony. The machine kills hardware, not words — because words can be discredited but working devices cannot.