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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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she was engaged in espionage activities. (65-837-205, 193, 183, 170, 168) The book "Behind the Flying Saucers", by Frank Scully was analyzed in a memo from Mr. Ladd to the Director, dated 10-17-50. OSI, Washington, D. C., advised the assertions made in the book are "hogwash". "Time" magazine stated that the scientific credibility of the book was below that of a comic book. Scully claimed that the information for the book was furnished to him by an unidentified lecturer at Denver University, and by a Neither of these persons were identified by Scully. (100-824-8) Colon ___ lodd ___ 84___ Olavin___ johls ___ ison ___ 1. 30___ ```markdown ``` i. &rarr. 0 ___ 34. 40 ___ --- 15. 11. 10. 9.
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.