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Stlteet, waahington, D.C., MaJor Donald Keyhoe, Dir'ector.
Mr. Stringfield noted that the personnel of thia
committee are made~ of civilian personnel.
On October 2, 1961, Mr. Stringfield advised
the Cincinnati otfice, l'BI, Cincinnati, Ohio, that
he had noted an article in the Sunday edition of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, October 1, 1961, on page l, section B,
under the caption, "Oftbeat-CWaahington", which contained
one paragraph, "So• Defense Department b1gw1ga are
apprehena1ve that
uaa1a will climax its c~IIG)a1gn or
1nt111l1dat1on by a. spectaculM- explosion 1n apace--an
immense nuclear blast vialble to hundreds of m1111ona
or people. These otticials believe that the Soviet
Union haa the capability or setting oft suoh an elrJ)loaion
200 milea· or 110 above the earth whe1..e 1t could be aeen
from many oountr1ea."
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 tJe in well with what the caller·
had related to Mr. !tringfield in the anonymous
telephone call on September 25, 1961.
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