In The Doomsday Conspiracy Sheldon exposes the failure of the military and other governmental organizations to tell the truth about certain events that they would prefer not to explain. The rationale is usually: Why alarm the public unnecessarily about phenomena they cannot understand? Since the authorities themselves are basically ignorant about extraterrestrial beings, they, rather than making any attempt to meet them and learn their purposes, automatically classify their appearances as enemy action.

Robert Bellamy is hoping to end his career in espionage soon. He has worked for years with organizations that violate almost every standard of decency. He has decided that the benefits derived from espionage do not outweigh the lies, manipulations, and broken promises that have characterized his world over the years. Dehumanization is the price paid by all too many of those people who protect our national security.