Documents / FOIA release
This FBI Freedom of Information Act release on Silas M. Newton contains 1951 correspondence between the California Attorney General's office and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The state office cited Newton as the source for Frank Scully's book "Behind the Flying Saucers" and suspected he was running a large hoax or swindle. Hoover replied that the FBI had not investigated Newton on that matter. An internal note says OSI called the book's claims "hogwash" and that San Francisco agents contacted the state office.
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# --- The following documents appearing in FBI files have been reviewed under the provisions of The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (Title 5, United States Code, Section 552), The Privacy Act of 1974 (PA) (Title 5, United States Code, Section 552a), and/or Litigation FOIA/RA Litigation Executive Order Applied Requester b7C Subject Computer or Case Identification Number 312548 Title of Case 702-7244 Computer or Case Identification Number 312944 Title of Case *File 100-2244 Serials Reviewed 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,NR3.16.55.4 Limited Classification Review Conducted See Top Serial Release Location *File Section FOIA/PA Litigation Executive Order Applied Requester ___ Subject ___ Computer or Case Identification Number ___ *File___ Section___ --- Release Location *File___ Section___ ## FOIA/PA Executive Order Applied Requester ___ Subject Computer or Case Identification Number ___ * File___ Section___ Serials Reviewed ___ --- Release Location *File___ Section___ * INDICATE IF FBIHQ OR FIELD OFFICE FILE NUMBER (THIS FORM IS TO BE MAINTAINED AS THE TOP SERIAL OF THE FILE, BUT NOT SERIALIZED.)
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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.