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Street, Washington, D. C., Major Donald Keyhoe , Director.
Mr . Stringfield noted that the personnel of this
committee are made up of civilian personnel .
On October 2, 1961, Mr. Stringfield advised
the Cincinnati Office, FBI, Cincinnati, Ohio, that
he had noted an article in the Sunday edition of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, October 1, 1961, on page 1, section E,
under the caption, "Off beat vWashington", which contained
one paragraph, "Some Defense Department bigwigs are
apprehensive that Russia will climax its campaign of
intimidation by a spectacular explosion in space- -an
immense nuclear blast visible to hundreds of millions
of people .
These officials believe that the Soviet
Union has the capability of setting off such an explosion
200 miles or so above the earth where it could be seen
from many countries."
Mr'. Stringfield advised that the above
paragraph was printed as a reprint from the Herald
Tribune News Service, Washington , D.C., and that this
article seemed to tte in well with what the caller
had related to Mr. Stringfield in the anonymous
telepho:oo call on September 25, 1961,
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