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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”16 pages
# SCIENCE FICTION NEWS # Alan C. Rievman Victor Root, Illinois Rep. of IFSB, has some science-Fiction mags for sale, or free in exchange. He is selling them for a small fee. Write to IFSB for address. The DECEMBER, 1952, issue of PATE magazine is a must to all IPSB members and officers. It contains an article by Curtis Fuller, entitled, "Let's Get Straight About the Saucers." A complete detailed story of the incident of the scoutmaster described in our January issue, is discussed with a picture of the scoutmaster. SUBSCRIBE TO FATE MAGAZINE AND KEEP UP TO DATE ON THE SAUCERS. Write to 806 Dempster Street, Evanston, Illinois New Pocket Books on Stands. Dell No. 627, "When Worlds Collide" by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer. Pocket Book No. 908, "New Tales of Space and Time", Jard by Raymond J. Healy. Thanks to Ray Palmer for our letter in the December issue of "Other Worlds' Clark Publishing Co., 806 Dempster St. Evanston, Illinois. Let's subscribe. NEW BOOK BY VIKING PRESS "A.ross the Space Frontier", edited by Cornelius Ryan, $3.95, Viking, New York. RANDOM HOUSE HAS DONE IT AGAIN WITH: "By Space Ship to the Moon", written by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt, foreword by Willy Ley. $1. SCIENCE FICTION NEWS-LETTER by our Council Member, "Bob" Tucker, P.O. Box 702, Bloomington, Illinois. THE UNITED STATES ROCKET SOCIETY, Box 29, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Hollywood is coming out with two good movies: "War of the Worlds" and "The Conquest of Space". SAUCER REVIEW, by Elliott Rockmore, a member of our Council. P.O. Box 148, Wall St. Station, New York 5, N.Y. Owners of tape recorders or wire recorders Join T.R.I. (Tape-respondence International. Send your voice to your correspondents) 3488-22nd St., San Francisco 10, Calif. BORDERLAND SCIENCES RE SEARCH ASSOCIATES located at 3524 Adams Ave., San Diego 16, California would like to have IFSB members join their society. Many new Science Fiction Mags are hitting the newstands and some are good while others are the usual run. A few of the better ones are: Tops in SF; Science Fiction Quarterly and Fantastic. Two good S-F books: "Robots Have No Tails" by Lewis Padgett and "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Both humorous line. The officers of IFSB are planning on issuing a 12-page booklet sometime next year with a complete record on all saucer reports that they now have collected. This booklet will not be a regular issue of "Space Review", but a separate issue and will sell for 50c to everyone. Our President, Mr. Bender, will write the foreword with comments throughout by officials of IFSB. The booklet will be entitled: IFSB REPORTS ON THE SAUCERS. If interested, write! We would like members and officers to send in snapshots of themselves so that when the time comes for us to print pictures in Space Review, we will have the photos available. MENTION "SPACE REVIEW" when writing to any of above mentioned publications. This page will be eliminated in future issues, and will be replaced by articles on saucers.
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.