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STANDARD F'ORM NO. 6C
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Office Memoran~um • ' ·uNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO
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DA.TB: August 15, 1947
llr. Tolson
FROM
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SUBJECT:
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The Director advised on Aunust 14, 1947, that
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the Los Angeles papers ~ere carrying headlines indicating
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that Soviet espionage afents had be~ ~ instructed to
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determine ·i;he Jacts relative to the-j'lyin g disc§_.
The
article carried a ifashington date line and indicated
tnat ded espionage agents rad be~n ordered to solve the
question o/ the /lying discs, the Russians being OJ ·the
opinion that this might be some nez1J form OJ Cefense prefected
by -the American Military .
The ar"ticle J urth.er recalled that
during ·1,ne recern i ar pieces oj' tin J oil had been dropped
in ·the air /or tre purpose OJ off setting the value o.f radar
being used b~ the enemy Jorces an, that these aluminum discs
might be a new develo,rnent along ·this line .
:i.'he Director
ir,quired as to IJ!hettter the Bureau had any such information .
I informed him the& I had never heard of any
information indicating t~at Soviet espionage agents had been
ins-i;ructed to obtai,n such in/orma·iion .
A check witr the officiaJ.s at G- 2 , OllI and at the) oJ ~J 'I
Air Corps lntell igence u)as made and it ·as J'ound -chat they
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had no information relative to such a sto r y .
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In accordance with 1,he Director ' s inst r uctions , I
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advised !'r . lvichols char; in the event any inc.tuiries
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made concerning such~ sr;ory,
1,hat the story should be
flatly denied in so J'ar as the FBI i as concerned .
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RECORDED
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3 2 AUG 19 1947