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He said that Manspeaker, whose first name
he did not know, is also connected with 0 Valor 11 magazine
in some way.
He was asked as to what interest •tvalor
magazine has in Bethurum, and whether Bethurum was
sponsored by any other organization.
He advised that
he did not lmow the interest of nvalor" magazine in
Bethurum, and so .far as he knew, Bethurum was acting
on his own and had no organizational af'filiations or
sponsorship.
He was asked as to what disposition would
be made of receipts from a large meeting and he advised
that he did not know what disposition would be made of
the money.
He said he understood that Bethurum had been
on tour for soine time and that the meeting scheduled
for Cincinnati originally on June 11, 19.54 was to be
the beginni.ng of a new series of meetings.
William Dudle,-;Belley, Noblesville, Indiana
reportedly operates the Soul Craft Press at Noblesville
and among other pamphlets, published the weekly journal
entitled "Valor", which Mr. Pelley describes as a "journal
of the applied spirituality." This publication is said
to deal mainly with practical mysticism, the spiritual
movement called Soulcraft and the relat1onshop between
earth man and the individuals arriving on this planet
from flying saucers.
Mr. Pelley is said to claim that
these individuals arriving in flying saucers are of
greater intelligence and learning than the earth people
and are here to give the earth people intellectual
guidance and spiritual endowment and guidance.
On July 2, 1954, Thomas Eickhoff advised that
no progress had been made with respect to holding a
meeting for Truman Bethurum in Cincinnati, Ohio which
would be of national significance.
He said that Bethurum
had returned to California but that there was a possib­
ility that he would a ain come to Cincinnati, Ohio in
the f'all of 1954.
At the same time Mr. Eickhoff advised
that he had communicated with Donald E~hoe, author
of the book Flying aucers From Outer Space 11 and had
advised him that he had been inf'ormed by Lieutenant
Colonel John 01Mara, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio that he was a fraud and that information is avail­
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