Rumour is that he was a Star Trek fan and he entered James Kirk as his real name.
'Capitol Hill Blue' said that Wilkinson started the hoax way back in '82.
The British Name Generator was not on the World Wide Web in 1982! LOL, maybe the con didn't really go back two decades??
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943260/posts
"...The bottom line is that someone has been running a con on me for 20 some years and I fell for it like a little old lady in a pigeon drop scheme. I've spent the last two hours going through the database of Capitol Hill Blue stories and removing any that were based on information from Wilkinson (or whoever he is). I've also removed his name, quotes and claims from Tuesday's story about the White House and the uranium claims. ..."
That's some con. And why remove the stories? Now there's some material for an espionage book.
BTW, the absurdest part of the story is that he would have met Bush peraonally. So disproveable and unlikely...yet this was a valuable disinfo source...someone thought the spin on this "Niger" story was worthy enough to blow this asset!
Thanks for that name generator story.
Well, Doug Thompson claimed "Wilkinson" was a source for 20 years, but he said he'd never named him before. So, there ya go.