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This FBI FOIA release, obtained via MuckRock, contains a July 11, 2018 FBI referral letter to the Air Force about Emma Best's request for records on Fred Lee Crisman. The referred material is a 1947 Army Air Forces A-2 intelligence investigative report on a flying disc incident reported at Tacoma, Washington. The agent inspected Dahl's boat and found no trace of damage. The file also holds a July 22, 1947 Venture Press letter asking a pilot to investigate the Maury Island story.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C. 20535 Date: July 11, 2018 To: Headquarters Air Force/IMIO (FOIA) 1000 Air Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330-1000 From: David M. Hardy Section Chief Record/Information Dissemination Section Records Management Division Subject: FOI/PA Request of Emma Best FBI FOI/PA #1347908-000 Re: CRISMAN, FRED LEE In connection with review of FBI files responsive to the above request, the following were located: unclassified document which originated with your agency is being referred to you for direct response to the requester. The requester has been advised of this referral. Please furnish us with a copy of your disclosure letter to the requester. (See index A) ___ FBI document(s) containing information (bracketed) concerning your agency. We will advise the requester to expect a direct response from your agency regarding this matter. Please review this information and return the document(s) to us, making any deletions you deem appropriate. (See index B) 1 classified document which originated with your agency is being referred to you for direct response to the requester. The requester has been advised of this referral. Please furnish us with a copy of your disclosure letter to the requester, and advise us if the classification of the document changed so that we may amend our files. (See index C) ___ classified FBI document containing information (bracketed) concerning your agency. We will advise the requester to expect a direct response from your agency regarding this matter. Please review this information and return the document(s) to us, making any deletions you deem appropriate, citing the exemption(s) claimed. Please advise this Bureau if the document(s) still warrant classification. (See index D) Please note that some of the enclosed documents contain deletions made by the FBI. The appropriate exemption appears next to the redacted information. Since the documents will be released by the insert agency name, the requester should appeal to the insert agency name's appellate authority. The insert agency name's appellate authority will coordinate with the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Information Policy (OIP) regarding the FBI deletions once an appeal is received. The requester may also seek dispute resolution services by contacting the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) at 877-684-6448, or by emailing ogis@nara.gov. Alternatively, they may contact the FBI's FOIA Public Liaison by emailing foipaquestions@fbi.gov. If they submit their dispute resolution correspondence by email, the subject heading should clearly state "Dispute Resolution Services." The FOIPA Request Number should be cited in any correspondence to us for proper identification of the request.
FOIA release, cited by the archive. 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.