Documents / FOIA release
This is an FBI Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts release on Silas Newton. It includes a 1951 internal memo about inquiries from the California Attorney General's office. That office asked about Newton because he was cited as an authority in Frank Scully's 1950 book "Behind the Flying Saucers." The FBI reported that Newton had a 1936 New York arrest for grand larceny. It also recommended telling California that Lee Gebauer may be Lee Julius Arnold Gebauer, who was convicted in federal court at Tucson in 1944.
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```markdown ``` (1) To advise you of the details concerning an inquiry from the Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice, concerning Silas H. Newton ___(2) to incorporate pertinent information concerning Newton ___into the main case file for future reference; (3) to recommend that the attached letter be forwarded to former DA ___who is presently attached to the Office of the Attorney General, State of California. ## BACKGROUND: On May 1, 1951, an inquiry was received at the Bureau from the Office of the Attorney General, State of California, in a letter dated April 25, 1951, pointing out that Silas M. Newton, FAI #835081, had been cited as an authority for a book entitled "Behind the Flying Squirrel," which was published by one Frank Scully in 1950. The gist of the book is that the so-called flying squirrels are manifestations of secret scientific research being conducted by the Government. The letter from the Office of the Attorney General further advised that Silas H. Newton had an arrest record which was known to the Office of the Attorney General of the State of California and requested the Bureau to furnish the Office of the Attorney General with any additional information other than his arrest record which might be available in the Bureau files. VAA:DA RECORDED - 28 100 - 383029 SE-6 EX-92 98 1951 AUG 20 WOB
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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.