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65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SECTION_8
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FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER
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Class / Case #: 0062 83894
Sub: 8 SERIALS 344-384
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Serial #: 384 SECTION 8
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STANDARD FORM NO. 64
Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Director, FBI (62-83894)
DATE: 7/22/54
FROM : SAC, Cincinnati (65-1994)
[Handwritten marginalia on left: Mull [illegible] / hh / Encl / P1-[illegible]]
SUBJECT: TRUMAN BETHURUM;
FLYING DISCS
MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING
(ESPIONAGE)
Remylet 6/8/54 and Bulet 6/22/54.
Attached are five copies of a memorandum containing information set out in my letter of June 8, 1954 with additional information furnished by THOMAS EICKHOFF on July 2, 1954.
On July 2, 1954, although EICKHOFF had been so advised at the time of the original interview with him on June 7, 1954, he was again advised in accordance with instructions in reBulet.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Office Memorandum
DATE: 7/22/55
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-83894)
FROM: SAC, CINCINNATI (62-1994)
SUBJECT: [REDACTED] - INFORMATION CONCERNING
ESPIONAGE
Reference is made to Bureau letter dated 7/18/55.
Attached are five copies of [illegible] information due to letter of [illegible] dated July 2, 1955.
On July 2, 1955, [illegible] had been advised at the time of the original interview. He was again advised on June 2, 1955, with instructions to [illegible].
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FBI
U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE
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[Stamp bottom right]:
REC'D ESPIONAGE
FBI
U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE
JUL 30 4 08 PM '55
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TRUMAN BETHURUM
FLYING II SCS
On June 7, 1954, Mr. Thomas Eickhoff, 3721 Tappan Avenue, Cincinnati 23, Ohio, Operator of Tom's Beauty Salon, Neave Building, Fourth and Race Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, advised that although he belongs to no organization interested in flying saucers or discs, he has been interested in this subject.
He said on June 3, 1954 an ad appeared in "The Cincinnati Enquirer", a newspaper of general circulation in Cincinnati, Ohio, to the effect that on June 11, 1954 a program would be presented at the Taft Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio on "the real flying saucer story." Mr. Eickhoff advised that this advertisement disclosed no sponsor for this program and it was only noted on the ad that tickets for the program sold for $2.00 per person and would be on sale at the Central Ticket Office in Cincinnati.
Mr. Eickhoff continued that because of his interest in the subject of flying saucers, he desired to know the sponsor of the program and found out from the Central Ticket Office that the ad had been placed by Henry [handwritten X over name] Maday, 364 West Lewiston Avenue, Ferndale 20, [handwritten underline] Michigan. He said he telephonically contacted Maday on June 3, 1954 and found that Maday was only the agent having rented the Taft Auditorium and that he was acting on behalf of Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson.
He continued that on June 4, 1954 Maday called him back and told him there had been a disagreement between Maday, Bethurum and Williamson over Maday's arrangement for the sale of tickets of the program and the renting of the auditorium. Eickhoff advised that Maday at no time said anything to discredit either Bethurum or Williamson and indicated that their disagreement concerned only Maday's placing the ad in "The Cincinnati Enquirer" prior to having tickets for the program available in Cincinnati.
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Mr. Eickhoff further related that about ten minutes after he had talked to Maday on Friday, June 4, 1954, he received a call from George Hunt Williamson and a Mr. Manspeaker, who confirmed to him that Maday was no longer associated with them, and asked that Eickhoff meet with them at a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio on June 7, 1954.
Mr. Eickhoff, in explanation of his interest in this matter, advised that he had read such books as "Flying Saucers From Outer Space," written by Donald E. Kehoe, retired major, U. S. Marine Corps, which book was published by Harper's Publishers, and a book entitled "Flying Saucers Have Landed," by George Adamski, which book is published by Werner-Lowery Company in England, and is distributed by the British Book Center in New York City. He said that he has also heard broadcasts by persons he considers reputable news commentators, such as Walter Winchell, Fulton Lewis, Jr., and Frank Edwards, to the effect that reliable persons have reported observing flying discs or saucers. He said contrary to these reports, the U. S. Air Force has denied the existence of the flying saucer and he felt that persons such as Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, in presenting a program such as that contemplated, were either truthful or they were frauds. He stated that if they had a true story to tell, then he felt it was of such nature that it should be given as wide a distribution as possible, so that the people might learn the true facts regarding flying discs. He said, however, if their story was not true, then the holding of such a meeting as was contemplated would be a fraud on the general public. He estimated that such a meeting in Cincinnati might draw two thousand people, which, at $2.00 apiece, would result in a $4,000.00 take for the promoters.
To identify Truman Bethurum, Mr. Eickhoff had with him two copies of the magazine "Valor," which he stated he got from Bethurum, this magazine being self-identified as the "Golden Times Weekly," published by Soul Craft Chapels, Post Office Box 192, Noblesville, Indiana. The two issues which Mr. Eickhoff had with him were numbers 15 and 16 of volume 6 of the publication, the number 15 being
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dated February 6, 1954 and number 16 being dated
February 13, 1954. The number 15 issue contained an
article concerning Truman Bethurum, in which he is
identified as a truck driver from Redondo Beach, Calif-
ornia, and it refers to an article dated December 31,
1953, which appeared in the "Daily Breeze," a newspaper
at Redondo Beach, California, which allegedly contained
a description of an encounter which Truman Bethurum had
with a crew of assumed space explorers under the super-
vision of a ravishing woman commandant in the Nevada
desert. The article also reflects that Truman Bethurum
allegedly was aboard flying saucers on eleven occasions.
At the bottom of the first page of issue number 15 there
appeared in what Mr. Eickhoff stated was the handwriting
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