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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 7

Department of War · 205 pages · text from the file's own layer

This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence and memoranda on flying saucers from 1952 to 1954. It holds letters from the public, which J. Edgar Hoover forwarded to the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, and a 1952 teletype about a saucer-shaped light over the Savannah River Plant. It also includes an FBI Laboratory examination of the burned cap of scoutmaster D. S. DesVergers, which found no identifying residue, and instructions to field offices to refer disc reports to the Air Force.

  • p. 196 …WILLIAMSON or MANSPEAKER prior t o the events described above. He said that GEORGE HUNT WILLIAM50N…
  • p. 197 …with THOMAS EICKHOFF, TRU¥,AN BETHURUM, GEORGE HUNT WILLIAMSON, J. H. STRINGFIELD, and Lt. Col. JOHN…
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Letter to Director;
June 8, 1954
BETHURUM had been on tour for some time and that the meeting scheduled
for Cincinnati originally on 6-11-54 was to be the beginning of a new
series of meetings.
The files of this office contain no information which can be
identified with THOMAS EICKHOFF, TRU¥,AN BETHURUM, GEORGE HUNT WILLIAMSON,
J. H. STRINGFIELD, and Lt. Col. JOHN O'MARA.
The indices reflect that by letter dated 2-7-52, Indianapolis
file 61-5, the Indi anapolis Offi.Ce advised the Cincinnati Office under the
caption of "Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc.; Internal Security - X,"
that the Silver Shirt Legion of America, Inc., whose leader is WILLIAM
DUDLEY PELLEY, was at that time operating under the name ofSoul Craft
Press, 111th headquarters and printing facilities in Noblesville, Indiana.
With regard to RALPH~, the indices of this office reflect
that as of J~, 1942, he was general manager of the Zimmermann Packing
Company, a mechanical packing firm at 139-141 West Fourth st., Cincinnati.
No further action is being taken in this matter by this office,
and the foregoing is for the Bureau's information and for the information
of the Los Angeles and Indianapolis Offices.
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