at kirk devane's minuteman caf\, next door to the stratford inn, owned by your "book talk" host dick loudon. back to you, dick. we're back. cue dick! right. we're, uh, talking with retired air force colonel lloyd menninger... who has written a book called "up the amazon," in which he purports to have seen... dinosaurs and aliens... living somewhere in brazil. colonel, uh, i-- i'm sure that you'll have to admit that you've made some extraordinary claims, it-- it seems to me that, uh, if there were dinosaurs and alien beings on the banks of the amazon, we would have heard about it before this. well, not from me, dick. i've been in hiding. hiding? correct, dick. the government is trying to kill me. obviously, when i say government, i mean specifically the cia. they know that if this information were to get out, it would panic the public. but... you're-- you're not hiding now. well, dick, i didn't feel i could pass up an opportunity to speak on television. i've been trying for months to tell my story over the airwaves. but as we all know, the three major networks as well as pbs and most cable c