65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003

August 19, 1947
United Press .1ireman, stating that Captain DAVIDSON and Lieutenant BRO::N
were the Intelligence officers that were killed in the crash of the B- 25 and
that civilians and the sheriff had been kept away from the wreckage vn.th the
Anny guarding it. He stated the anonymous caller then said that the names
had not been released yet by the Anny and that this would verify his statements .
PAUL LANTZ stated that the follovn.ng morning, Saturday, August 2, the Anny
verified that the officers killed were Captain DAVIDSON and Lieutenant BRO,l'N
and two days later verified that they were Army Intelligence officers . IJI.NTZ
stated that the anonymous caller again later contacted TED ~fORRELLO, calling
him by that name, and at this time stated he did not call the Tacoma News
Tribune or the Associated Press and denied calling PAUL LANI'Z or BURT Mct!URTIE.
In this call the anonymous caller stated that, 11Don•t think I'm doing this for
you. 11 He then asked if the story had been put on the wire and when HORRELLO
said yes, the caller stated, m·.e want this to get back to New Jersey. 11 The
caller further stated that the B-25 was shot down by a 20 m.m. cannon and that
the marine plane which was recentl_y found wrecked on the side of !{t. Rainier,
having been missing for several months, had also been shot down. The caller
stated to '~ORRSLLO th::it he should get in touch with a flyer named HORGAN with
United Airlines who, he stated, was with Captain Sll.ITH when they were shot at
over Montana. The caller then stated, 111 111 see you Tuesday. I 1m going to
San Francisco. 11 LAJTCE stated that he had checked with Captain :c::IL Sl.:ITH of
United Airlines who denied knowing any pilot by the name of ''ORG.',N; denied
ever having flown over l'ontana. LANTZ stated that l:ORR1ILO received another
anonymous call in which the caller stated that STITH would be sent to "'Tright
Field on Tuesday and that Saturday one of the men who found fragments of the
flying disc was to be flovm to Alaska. LA"JTZ stated that in view of the fact
that the information as to the Intelligence officers on the B-25 had been as
furnished by the anonymous caller, had subsequentl_y been verified by the Army,
the story was released that the B- 25 was carrying disc fragments returning to
Hamilton Field, California and furnishing the inference that the plane had been
sabotaged or shot down. LANTZ stated that about 8:00 P. H. on Sunday, August 3,
he contacted Captain E'IL S!:.,..TH at his home, 3027 ..est Laurelhurst Drive,
Seattle at which time S:ilTH stated he had not given any story out to the Post
Intelligencer at Seattle; stated that he had gotten a telegram to call a number
in Boise and when he called and found out it was the Boise statesman, he had
hung up. He stated that the Boise 3tatesman then contacted him, at which time
he admitted he had seen the disc fragments, but that he did not take any of
them. This time ~ITTH infonned LANTZ that he had been with Uajor GEORGE
S..NDERS, Public Relations Officer from 1.!cChord Field, all afternoon until about
3:45 P. M. S?.IITH informed L.~~!TZ that he had told the Army authorities every
thing that he and ARNOID knew about the flying disc fragments story from the
time that l\EN~".ETH ARNOID left Boise, Idaho and he had left Seattle, Washington.
This time 9.!ITH admitted that there were some of the supposed disc fragments
in ARNOID I s room at the ,linthrop Hotel and that CRISMAN and DAHL had been in
the room Thursday afternoon . On l!onday PAUL LANTZ stated that he called
HAROID DAHL who advised that if this were not used in the paper, he and FRED
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