FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 7

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Letter to Di rector
June 8, 1954
which TRUMAN BETHURUM had with a crew of assumed space explorers under
the supervision of a ravishing woman col!Dl1andant in the Nevada desert.
The article also reflects that TRUMAN BETHURUM allegedly was aboard
flying saucers on eleven occasions~ At the bottom of the first page
of issue number 15 there appeared in what ~x. EICKHOFF stated was the
handwriting of TRUMAN BETHURUM the statement "This is a true story, a
factual experience -- TRUMAN BETHURUM."
The above mentioned article in ''Valor• also reflected that TRUMAN
BETHURUM is 55 years of age and that his resid~nce address is 519 North
Gertruda Avenue, Redondo Beach, Calit'ornia.
Mr. EICKHOFF also had with him a letter addressed to TRUMAN BETlilJRUM
from WILLIAM GILROY of the Saucers Resear ch Foundation, which letter re
flected that that organization was holding a three-day convention June 4,
5 and 6, 1954 at the Carth.cy- Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California,
and that it had invited TRUMAN BETHURUM to this convention t o say a few
words concerning his experience. GILROY was identified in this letter as
business manager of Criswell Predicts Your World of Tomorrow, 1922 North
Highland, Hollywood 28 , California.
Mr. EICKHOFF reiterated that he felt IETHURUM1 s story, if true,
should be given wide publicity, but that if the story was false , t hen he
should be prosecuted f or fraud. He stated that he first took bis in
formation to the Air Force in the person 0£ Lieutenant Col onel JOHN -
O•mmA orTr"i'gfi'E=Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, whom EICKIDFF visited
persona.lJ.i.j.t 01 M'AID.1 s home in Fairborn, Ohio, on Sunday> 6-6-~u.
llCKHOFF indicated that he asked Colonel 0 1 .MARA if there were such things
as flying saucers and if IETHURUM' s story could be true, and he said
O'MARA denied that there was such a thing as a flying saucer and indicated
to him that DONALD E. KEHOE, the author of "Flying Saucers in Outer
Space" was a fraud and that information is available in Washington that
KEHOE is a fraud. He said he was advised, however, by Colonel 0 1 MARA
that the Air Force could take no action with respect to BETHURUM or WILL
IAMSON.
EICKHOFF continued that it was his intention to aid in the
promotion of a meeting for BETHIBUM in Cincinnati. He advised that the
original meeting schedul ed for June 11 had been cancelled, and that he
felt this meeting had such important information for the people as a whole
t hat he was going to make every effort to make the meeting one of national
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