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(CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS)
The "Newsletter" and the two newspaper clippings were
forwarded to this office by JAC
UNDERMAN, 3914 Teleford
Avenue, Cincinnati 20, Ohio, under date of 10/20/54.
Mr.
GUNDERMAN advised that he is employed as a layout artist
by the Du.Bois Company, Inc., 1120 West Front Street,
Cincinnati 3, Ohio, and that he began work there on 8/19/ 54.
He advised that the advertising manager of this company
is LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD who is intensely interested in
flying saucers and has created the Civilian Research,
Interplanetary Flying Objects organization.
He advised that
STRINGFIELD is director of this organization and is
assisted by his wife, that he writes and publishes monthly
the multi-lithographed 11Newsletter," and that he claims
that the publication now has a world-wide circulation of
about 4 ,000 copies at a subscription price of $2.00 per year.
GUNDERMAN further adv sed that STRINGFIELD regularly
communicates with FRANK1 DWARDS, former A. F. of L. radio
news commentator, on the subject of saucers and that,
according to STRINGFIELD, EIMARDS is also intensely interested
in saucers.
EWARDS recently warned STRINGFI.h:LD to be very
careful or the Air Force would stop STRINGFIELD's publishing
activities.
GUNDERMAN also related that STRINGFIELD main­
tains that the Air Force was responsible for EDWARDS being
fired as the A. F. of L. radio news commentator because EDWARDS
used his program to publicize his (EDWARDS) saucer interest.
GUNDERMAN related that STRINGFI~LD states in the
"Newsletter", and also personally, that the u. S. Air Force
maintains a strict censorship of news pertaining to saucers,
that the Air Force has several thousand saucer scientists
t~rking on a research project, and that any military
personnel working on the project are subject to immediate
court-martial if they reveal any facts about it.
STRINGFIELD has also stated to GUNDERMAN that he be­
lieves his home telephone is being monitored, presumably
by the Air Force , and that he makes phone calls to Wright­
Patterson Air Force Intelligence Officer JOHN 0 1 MARA and to
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