Documents / FOIA release
This FBI file on the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) holds records from 1956 to 1961. It includes press clippings, NICAP letters signed by Director Donald E. Keyhoe, and internal Bureau memoranda. It also contains Hoover's replies saying the FBI does not investigate UFO sightings and passes reports to the Air Force. Other items cover a 1960 Grand Blanc, Michigan moon photograph by Joe Perry, an Air Force officer's request to curb NICAP, and a citizen asking whether NICAP was Communist sponsored.
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# Trading on U. S. Name Charged # FBI Invokes New Law to Arrest Woman in Debt-Collection Scheme The FBI arrested a 53-yearold Silver Spring woman yesterday under a new law designed to prevent trading on the name of the Federal Government for nongovernmental purposes. By Milton Viorst Staff Reporter Ann J. Wacksman of. 8600 Carroll ave., was charged with using a name "calculated to convey the false impression" that her debt-collecting business was a Federal agency. This is the first arrest under the law, the FBI said. The form stated that "there is a sum of money on deposit for you not in excess of $100" Mrs. Wackman operated the "National Deposit System" in the Woodward Building, 733 15th st. nw., the FBI said. She sold printed forms that looked like IBM cards and were designed to convey an official look, the FBI said. if the recipient answered a series of questions. Mrs. Wacksman sent the forms, in brown window envelopes, to addresses designated by her customers. ## Picture on Page A9 to follow up in the debt collection. The FBI said such official-looking letters got to the addresses while others did not. The merchants were then free The FBI charged that use of an eagle the term "National Deposit System Certificate," the format and phraseology and the mailing from Washington "misleads persons . . . into the erroneous and mistaken belief" that the form comes from a branch of the United States Government. A disclaimer which points out on the form that no Federal agency is involved does not destroy the overall effect of the display, the FBI said. Mrs. Wacksman was arraigned before Municipal Court Judge Thomas C. Scalley, and held under $500 bond. The case was continued until Aug. 30. Mrs. Tacksman had been issued a "cease and desist" order by the Federal Trade Commission several months ago, the FBI said, and the arrest was made in response to an FTC complaint. After returning the form, the sender usually received 2 cents, the FBI said, as the sum "not in excess of $100." The Justice Department said the law was passed last year to combat repeated use by collecting agencies and private detectives of names suggesting the authority of the Federal Government.
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.