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To:
Director o/ Special Ir.uesttgattons
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The In~pector General
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Department oj the Atr Force
The Pentagon
Washtngt.o n 25, D. c.
Fromt
,Tohn ldgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau o/ Inuesttgation
Subject:
FRED J.~KHOUT
On rays, 1952, Fred J . £ekhout called at this
~ureau and advtsed ~hat he is General Manager of Mouton a~d
Company, Prtn-tera, 5 llerderstraat, Thtt !!ague, Netherlands.
He rastdes at 49 Stadhouderslaan, Tha Hague.
lle ts residing
at the Ytctoria Hotel, New York Cttu, until May 16, 19521
when he wtll return to Europe.
Vr. Eekhout adutsed that he hao a considerable
tnter~st tn electrontcs and has been very much tnterestod
"tn reports ctrculateA during the pa.at year or two concern­
ing the e:cistcnce o}.-lf).11.Jnq, saucE:,r;s,
fie feels that there
have been enough uncontra'a\ctea report3 concerntng such
devtcca to indt cate that they may e:ctst tn rac~.
He ts also
of the optnton that if they do eztst they can be prodjced_
only bu the finited State~ or Rua.of.a. or perhaps bJt; t.h~
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Republi,c of Argentina.
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lfr,. Eekhout tndicated that he has give,; .i!;:fpnehue
thought to the Mnncr in which these deui ces cou: &l=b~
operated,.
He haa concluded that since the dialr ~•PJ. ii
not suitable for conventional aircraft tt woule ~e ueect;E
only becau:,e tt would provide the greatest posafple "!Zi..fttng
sur/ac11.
It is his opinion, therefore, that one· of %hl:!ie
deutces could be operated only by reducing the atr pressure
above tt whfch would cause t~ to rtae in the air.
He
concedes that conventional machinery to cause such a reduction
o/ pressure would be so bulky that its weight would preuent
the deuice from leaving the ground.
He concludes~ there/ore,
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