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the censors directly upon my head is your guess.
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Meantime, if this gets cleared, you may share in
this, my latest quasi-official challenge. You will share
b¥ becoming informed of the existing policies and metho­
dology of the. Defense Department's public information
program -- that part of the program which covers the review­
clearanc.e of manuscripts written for personal publication
by the department's employee·s. You will share 1µ my
evaluation of the roles played by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Army's intelligence body (G-2) in
monitoring the UFO research activities or an Army civilian
employee.
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We return first to 195S, to Fort Monroe, Va., head­
quarters of the U.S. Continental Army Command (USCONARC},
where I was employed for two years.
As part of my early
interest in aerial phenomena, I had an unofficial notic·e
published in the Fort Monroe Daily Bulletin for S,eptember
22, 1958. The notice requested USCONARC personnel to report
their UFO, sightings to me for analysis. It developed that
fulfillment of my request would be in violation of two
classifi.ed Army directives covering the official processing
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