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Mr. Tolson
L. B. JHohols
fILLI.AJJ .ALBERT RHODES
INFORJJ/JTION CONCERNING
FLTING DJSCS
BUREAU FILE 62-83894, Beriala ao, 184, and 225
During ny absence at 11:50 ~.M. today, Fred Blumen­
thal, in the office o/ Drew Pearson, called and talked with
~1ok.
Blumenthal stated 'earson has been in contact with
Dr. W. A. Rhodes (Phoenix telephone number 5-0048) concerning
?hotographs which ·the above captioned toolr of flying discs in
the Phoeniz area in July of 1P47.
Blunenthal states that Dr. Rhodea told Pearson today
that the FBI borrowed h1s ntgatives of the flying di8cs and when
asked /or their return the FBI told Rhodes the negatives were not
aua1lable.
Blumenthal asted whether there ts any truth to thts
atatement of BhodtHI and what the FIJI lrnew about h ,111.
It appears that Pear3on ta tnterested in ustng thB
photograpns on his television program and ts dsstrous of borrowtng
them from the Bureau or having then returned to Dr. Rhodes.
8ACKGB0UND:
Bureau ftlea reflect that on AuguBt 29, 1947, a llr.
Geor.g~ Fugate, Jr., called at the Phoeniz Office exhtbittng
credenttals reflecttng he represen~ed A-2, Fourth Air Force,
Naatlton Fteld, Calt/ornia.
He as~ed an Agent to acco•pany
h"im to interview Wi lliam Rhodes who preu1ouslu reported the
photographing of a flutng disc in Phoentz on the afternoon o/
July 7, 1947.
The Phoenix Office contactod SAC Harry Kimball of the
San Francisco Office and Ur. Kimball uerlfisd the /act that Fuuate
came to Phoentx as a representative of Colonel Donald Sprtnger o/
Hamil ton Field, and it was sugge3ted the Phoenix 0//tce asstat
Fugate not in tnves~tgattng the matter, but in simply talk,ng wtth.
Dn. Rhodes.
By lett-er dated September 4 1 1947, the, Phoen1,% Of/'ce
s•t forth in four ~ages the re ultB of thts interview ond stated
F ate had requested the negatives from Rhodes who d1,d not have
in his immediate pobsesston.
Rhodes stated, however, he
d deltuer them to the FBl the rallowtng morning /or trans­
l to Fugate at Hamtlton F~eld~ CaltJornta.
Air. Ladd
r. Belmont
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