Documents / FOIA release
This FBI file on the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) holds records from 1956 to 1961. It includes press clippings, NICAP letters signed by Director Donald E. Keyhoe, and internal Bureau memoranda. It also contains Hoover's replies saying the FBI does not investigate UFO sightings and passes reports to the Air Force. Other items cover a 1960 Grand Blanc, Michigan moon photograph by Joe Perry, an Air Force officer's request to curb NICAP, and a citizen asking whether NICAP was Communist sponsored.
“FBIS”12 pages
REC-42 62-103581
Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence J. Tacker Chief, Magazine & Book Branch Department of the Air Force Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Colonel Tacker:
I am in receipt of your letter of August 23, 1960, concerning the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
The public law to which you refer, Section 712, Title 18, U. S. Code, applies only to skip-tracing or collection agencies for bad debts, and private detective agencies. In view of this fact, no investigation can be conducted concerning the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena under the afore-mentioned sta
Your interest in this matter is appreciat Sincerely yours,
MAILED 20
AUG 3 1 1960
COMM-EBI
JRF:mmm
John Edgar Hoover Director
31 S $^{(3)} $bilanen a 22 VII.80
Air Force Colonel read newspaper publicity on the "Ann J. Wacksman, T/A National Deposit System" Bufile 43-15022. The Colonel apparently feels that any organization with the words National, Federal etc. in organization name comes within purview of Section 712, Title 18, U. S. Code, whereas such applies only to skip tracing and private detective agencies.
NOTE CONTINUED PAGE TWO Not linked to a story yet.
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. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.