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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 ro : Mr. DeLoach FROM : D. C. Morrell SUBJECT: RICHARD HALL SECRETARY NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA 1536 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORTHWEST WASHINGTON 6, D.C. Captioned individual wrote April 27th enclosing information concerning Dr. Frank E. Stranges who has implied he was associated with the FBI. Hall stated that in addition to the information he was providing, they would be glad to make other material in their files available to the FBI. A review of the enclosed material indicates that the allegations against Dr. Stranges pertain to a period in August and October, 1960. In October, 1960, the Seattle Office conducted an investigation concerning Dr. Stranges after information was received that he was implying that he was at that time or previously connected with the FBI. During the investigation no one was located who had actually heard Dr. Stranges make any such allegation although it was generally conceded that he had left a number of people with such an impression. Dr. Stranges is an evangelist. Based on his background, numerous addresses and organizations which he has had and the fact he claims to have talked to an individual from the planet Venus, it appears he may be also something of a confidence man. The allegation submitted by Mr. Hall is of the same type developed by the Seattle Office, and there appears to be no actual violation of the Impersonation Statute. We have had other correspondence with Richard Hall and Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. This organization was formed in 1956 as a privately-supported, fact-finding body to investigate unidentified flying objects. The organization claims that the Air Force has kept thousands of authentic reports on this topic from the public. Keyhoe has been known to the Bureau since the 1930's. He has been a free lance writer and a flamboyant style has characterized his articles. Some of the material written of direct interest to the Bureau has been found to be irresponsible. RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. That attached in-absence reply be sent to Mr. Hall. 46 MAY10 1962 SEE NEXT PAGE
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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.