  The interaction of an E/A=70 - MeV 7Be beam with a Be target was used to
populate levels in 6Be following neutron knockout reactions. The three-body
decay of the ground and first excited states into the alpha+p+p exit channel
were detected in the High Resolution Array. Precise three-body correlations
extracted from the experimental data allowed us to obtain insight into the
mechanism of the three-body democratic decay. The correlation data are in a
good agreement with a three-cluster-model calculation and thus validate this
theoretical approach over a broad energy range.
