65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_006

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On April 17, 1950 M
hodes advised the Phoen·:r~
Office that True Maga2lne would like to secure the photographs
which he had made available to Air Force Intelligence. At
that time Rhodes was ,
' ed to OSI Fourth Air Force Base,
{an Francisco~ OaLi.j.1u·11i.JJ
inc~
ey_ ad been ma e av l
e
o this agency by the Phoeni:r Office on August 30, l94'T.
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P.JJ__,letter dated June 8, 1949 the Pho n4+ 0,tfjce_
advised the Bureau tha_1 ~
the previous day Mr~ ~unn o~
ldrich 2§I r~£.!!.!!.n1E:tive
Phoeni:r1 Arizona, called the
f_,hoen i:r O.(,f ice statt,119 he had been requested by his !!!£Per iorll_
in San Francisco to obtain detailed information concerning the
~egatiues since Rhodes had requested their return. Aldrich
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pointed out that Fugate 's recollection on the matier was "hazy.'1
OSI reque sted and was given with Bureau approval a,. memorandum
setting out essentially the information related above donoern­
ing this mapter.
(62-83894, Serials 80, 184, and 225)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
On June 4, 1952, Mr. Fre<"'-.Blumenthal, i~ the office
of Drew Pearson, called and talked with Special Agent ,ibk.
Blumenthal stated Pearson had been in contact with the captioned
individual concerning photographs which Rhodes had taken of
flying discs in the Phoeni:c area in July of 1947.
Blumenthal
stated the subject told Pearson the FBI borrowed his negatives
and when he asked for their return the FBI told him the
negatives were not available.
Blumenthal inquired whether there
was any truth to Rhodes' state~ent and what the Bureau knew
concerning him. It appeared that Pearson was interested i 1n
using the photographs on his television program and was desirous
of borrowing them from the Bureau or having them returned to
the subject.
Jlr. Blumenthal was advised by Wick that the FBI
did not have in its possession the negatives referred to by Mr.
Rhodes and in fact Rhodes knew full well the FBI turn6!L..ilJ,_em
over to
tr 1'J!..!ce Intell tgence representatives, Fourth,.,A, i
Fore~
jlamilton Field Cal tfornia, on '&igu.st 30
1947
with the im.a-er­
st anding he might never have them returned.
JJ1.Jf!!}enthal was advised the FBI d_id not investigate
this matter, did not investigate Rhodes~ and had no interest
whats~,:_ in the matter other than to acoom.pall-y ..:fhe re__presentati ve
.t.r_om_!!a7T!:.i:l:ton Field while interviewi~g Rhodes.
Blumenthal was
told that for these reasons, of course, we had no information
concerning the reliability of Rhodes.
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