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This FBI file section contains a 20 January 1953 letter from the Johnson County, Indiana civil defense office asking J. Edgar Hoover whether the International Flying Saucer Bureau was subversive, with an enclosed issue of its bulletin Space Review. It also holds 1956 FBI memoranda and letters to Air Force investigators on a Van Nuys landing claim, a bright light seen from Oxford, Pennsylvania, and a low spinning object seen near Henderson, North Carolina. In each case the FBI took no action.
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BAC, Cincinnati (100-11671) Director, FBI (62-83894) RECORDED 83 42.8311-376 CIVILIAN RESEARCH April 23, 1957 INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS CINCINNATI 27, OHIO MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING Reurlet April 12, 1957, captioned as above. Buffles reflect that of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, M.D., Director of the Wilhelm Reich Institute, aka., The Orgone Institute Research Laboratories, Inc., at Rangeley, Maine. Dr. Wilhelm Reich, following extensive investigation by the Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in May, 1956, was found guilty of contempt of court following the issuance of an injunction barring interstate shipment of devices, literature and promotional material regarding treatments by Reich of cancer and other serious diseases, said devices having been described as worthless by the Food and Drug Administration. Following unsuccessful appeal efforts, Reich was imprisoned on March 12, 1957. Since early 1957, as well as previous thereto, Wilhelm Reich, and other members of Reich's staff have directed voluminous correspondence to the Bureau, to various Bureau divisions, and other United States Government agencies and officials. None of the material reviewed at the Bureau has indicated any violations within the investigative jurisdiction of this Bureau. It is noted that Dr. was recently interviewed by Special Agents of the Richmond Office assigned to the Alexandria, Virginia, Resident Agency at which time she furnished information in essence comparable with that set forth in her letter to She also indicated at that time that she had addressed similar information to the office of United States Senator Margaret Chase Smith and had contacted Assistant United States Attorney General William Tompkins. At that time a naturalized citizen of the United States, also made certain derogatory comments relating to justice Richmond, with enclosure (SEND BY REGISTERED MAIL) Norfolk (SEND BY REGISTERED MAIL) Delaware Male Personnel Reqs Tenant Trother Needs To be Hello Candy 3111 CFM:1vp S.I.P. (6) F250 58 APR 201357
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 142 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.