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Uniteh itates Deparbncnt of lJustic.r
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February 12, 1948
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Security ~atter - X
Dear Sir:
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transmitting herewith for the information of the Bureau copies 0 £ an
enoloeure dated February 4, 1948 reoebed from Lieutenant Colonel DONALD SPRlll<IBR,
A-2, United States Air Force, Hamilton Air Force &ee, Califonia. Th~a •nclosuro
is a con£ident1al letter addre•a•d to the Camnanding Generals ot the First, Secom,
Fourth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Air Foroea, Air Defense Comnand, from Head­
quarter•, Alr De£enae Comnand, ¥1tchel Air Force Baae, New York, by oo'll'me.nd 0£
Lieutenant General STRAfDtEYER.
It conoerna the inveatigation ot flying d.iacs by
Air Foroe personnel.
You~ attention is particularly called to Paragr~~h 2, whioh indicates that
certain r•ports ~onoerntni the imeat1gation or flying disos by Air Force Intelligence
~\ll be r•por~•d to ~he FBI office concerned.
Your attention ia further called to
2
Paragra.~h
-B, •hich iud1oatea that "imeatigationa will be coordinated with the
FBI Off'ice oonce---.d
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I.naamuch as the,. recent inatruotiona of the Headquartere, Air Defense
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are contrary to the illltnictions con-
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~uture report, OOIU:lected with flying diaoa should 'ti.
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• Air Poree and no im-eatigative action taken by Bureau agent,, t.he
offices ' 1~•q1Jeated to advlae thia oftioe, as well•• other iaterested &ireau
the handling 0!,het bor there has been a challf'e in Bureau policy with r•tere'QCe to
i s atUl in effect.'' a-ia"-tera or whether P.~reau Bulletin No. 57 dated October l, 1941
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Very truly youra,
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Encloaure (in duplicate)
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