65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 002

STANDAf!-0 FORM NO. 64 - • •Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ,,,Mr. J. P. Coy DATE:{ TO 9/17/47 Mr. Tolson llr. E. A. Tam_\ FROM W. v. Cl eveland Mr. Clegg Mr. Glav1-n-- llr. =--~---_-_ SUBJECT: Mrs . A . d rbanis ::: ~~;~~Is__ 11r. 1'racy- Informant llr. carso-n-- Mr. Egan._-_-_-_-_ Mr. Gurnea__ ::: ::hrbo-t- You will recall that a letter was received from the Ml". PeM-,ng=t=on llr. Qu!nn Tam above captioned individual dated July 10, 19b7, in which she Tele . Room - Mr . Neas•- inclosed a newspaper clipping signed "Radio Ham." This news M!ss Ho~ M188Gan<ly- paper clipping contained a coded message which Mrs. Sarbanis decoded. The FBI Laboratory checked Afrs . Sarbanis' decoding of this message and advised that it was substantially correct. The Labocatory ' s decvding of the message is being set forth below: "TIRED OF HUMAN NONSENSE i'/ONT AWAIT A'f£!,MIC WAR DISRUPTING ORDER SOLAR SYSTEM SO SENT"7'LYING DISKS AND WILL SET UP WORLD ORDER UNDER MARTIANS LATE THIS YEAR.,, The New York OJ/ice was asked to interview Mrs . Sarbanis to determine from what newspaper the clipping in question was obtained . They were further instructed to contact this newspaper in 9n effort to ascertain the identity of the p er son who sent in the coded message, in order that the person might be interviewed for information a? ncerning the alleged receipt of the coded message. By lette r dated September 4, 1947, the New York Office advised that they had ascertained from Mrs . Sarbanis that the coded • message had appeared in 11Newsday, " the local newspaper of Nassau and Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. The City Editor of this news paper stated that the original had been signed only "Radio Ham" and knew of no way of dete rmining the identity of the write r. It was the City Editor 's opinion that the code had been made up by some local "screwb all" who had been affected by all of the newspaper publicity that had been given to stories concerning ''flying discs ." The FBI Laboratory has now advised that the FCC maintains their amateur records by a geograp hical breakdown as well as by call l etters and that the Laboratory could possibly get the names of all amateurs in the Bellmore , Long Island , New York Section in the event it is desired that another attemit be made to identify the person who sent this coded message to the 'News~ay. t, ;_ _ [ ... .1. " rl RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended th . o further action be taken in connection with this matt e r in view j the opinion ~xp~essed by the City Edi tor of the "News day " that the 1 ette~ ' rebe i\,-ed'" by hf m si gned 11 "Radio Ham" was from some local ".screwbat . f" ~~~:;~ •-9 -17,6 ~ ~~~ ~