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This FBI file on the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) covers correspondence and internal memos from 1961 to 1964. It contains citizen inquiries about the group, NICAP's reports about Dr. Frank E. Stranges implying he had FBI ties, and a request from New Orleans about an employee joining. The Bureau notes it never investigated NICAP. It calls some of director Donald Keyhoe's writing irresponsible and decides the FBI's name should not be connected with the organization.
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Memorandum TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 7/10/61 FROM : SAC, NEW ORLEANS (62-0) SUBJECT: NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING 67c Clerical employee of the New Orleans Division advised that he is interested in aerial phenomena and wants to become a member of captioned organization. This organization is directed by Major DONALD E. KEYHOE, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired), and is headquartered at 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, D. C. MC CALL stated that, to his knowledge, the objectives of this organization, are to keep records of all sightings of unidentified flying objects and to make the information concerning them available to the public, as the organization feels that the U. S. Government is making an effort to suppress this type of information. Indices of the New Orleans Division are negative concerning captioned organization. The files of this Office reflect that in early 1950 an article concerning a flying disc appeared in True Magazine, written by one DONALD KEHOE, who is possibly identical with Major KEYHOE. The Bureau is requested to advise this Office of any information in its files concerning captioned organization and whether or not there would be any objection to a clerical employee of the Bureau becoming an active member of same. 2 - Bureau 1 - New Orleans EX100 NOB:cjk (3) DEC-92 Letter to SAC , New Orleans 7/17/61 62-103581 JUL 28 1961 XEROX JUL 25 1961
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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. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.