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This is an FBI FOIA response dated July 11, 2018, sent to Emma Best of MuckRock News and signed by David M. Hardy. It answers a request about Fred Lee Crisman. The FBI reviewed six pages and released one. The other five were referred to the Air Force FOIA Office. The released page is a September 1947 memo from SAC San Francisco on reports of flying discs. It forwards Hamilton Field A-2 letters about sightings on Guam and an investigation at Tacoma and Kelso, Washington.
This is a letter the FBI sent Michael Best on May 11, 2017, answering FOIA request 1347908-000 about Fred Lee Crisman. It releases 9 pages after consulting the CIA. The release includes a March 10, 1970 Seattle FBI memo calling Crisman a scoundrel and doubting that he had any CIA tie. It also includes an anonymous file claiming Crisman was a CIA "Disruption Agent" and a March 1970 FBI transmittal passing that material to the CIA.
This is a FOIA response letter the FBI sent to Michael Best on November 21, 2016, signed by David M. Hardy, about request 1347908-000 on Fred Lee Crisman. The FBI reviewed 53 pages and released 37, with redactions under exemptions (b)(6), (b)(7)(C) and (b)(7)(D). Some material was referred to the Air Force. Other records were transferred to the National Archives, and one record was destroyed in 1977. The letter also explains how to appeal.
This MuckRock release pairs a 29 March 2017 CIA FOIA response letter to Michael Best with a 10 April 1970 CIA memorandum to the FBI Director about Fred Lee Crisman, an author from Tacoma, Washington. The FBI had found the memo and referred it to the CIA, which released it in full. In the memo, CIA Director of Security Howard J. Osborn says a check of Agency records turned up no connection between Crisman and the CIA or its predecessors. He adds that the only reference to Crisman was in Joachim Joesten's 1968 "Truth Letter."
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.