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FBI file: Kenneth Arnold
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This FBI file, a report from the Seattle field office to the FBI Director dated August 1947, covers the Maury Island flying disc story told by Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl. It says Kenneth Arnold looked into the story for Ray Palmer, and that Army Intelligence officers Davidson and Brown died when their B-25 crashed at Kelso carrying the supposed fragments. The FBI found no sign of sabotage. Crisman and Dahl admitted the material had no connection to discs, and the report names Crisman as the most likely anonymous caller.
“Washington”14 pages
- p. 1 …Court House
Seattle 4, Washington
August 18, 1947
DIRECTOR, FBI
RE: FLYTING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED…
- p. 2 …Intelligence Officers at McChord Field, Washington advised there was no indication of any sabotage. The plane…
- p. 3 …MacCULLOCH at Tacoma, Washington on August 6, 7, 1947:
advised that in the early part of…
- p. 4 …The following information was obtained from PAUL LANTZ, 4513 South 7th, Tacoma, Washington, Proctor 8416, a…
- p. 5 …Boise, Idaho and he had left Seattle, Washington. This time SMITH admitted that there were some…
- p. 6 …TED MORRELLO, a United Press Wireman, Tacoma, Washington furnished substantially the same information that was obtained…
- p. 7 …MacCULLOCH was contacted in the resident agency office, Tacoma, Washington by RED CRISMAN. At this time…
- p. 8 …HAROLD DAHL operates the Commercial Lumber Company at 235 Millwater Avenue, Tacoma, Washington and FRED CRISMAN…
- p. 9 …and they flew to Berry's Airport at Tacoma, Washington where they were met by FRED…
- p. 15 …Lewis, Washington advised at the weekly O.N.I.-S.I.D.-F.B.I. Intelligence…
- p. 17 …DAHL, Tacoma, Washington SM - X
- p. 18 …DAHL Tacoma, Washington SM - X
- p. 19 …from a gravel pit on Maury Island, Washington. We sent a box (cigar) of these fragments…
- p. 20 STATE OF WASHINGTON ss
COUNTY OF KING
J. E. SMITH, being first duly sworn, on oath…
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