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aS ae . i 8 - . : fey i €. & ET 4 ‘ a : Auzust 19, 1947 c ie ; cation and should be in no way, carried as a news story and refused to 2, ne © any information regarding these reports. He further stated that he advised DOP ow the Bolse Statesman shortly before, or at the time heft Boise pous d to come to Tacoma to check on the flying dise stories with : am, ' — a ae that QM should not come as the entire story was a hoax. ; a 4 The following information was obtained con Gummi, - a : » It was the Tacoma Times paper which first issued a story ee _ on August 2 and subsequent stories intimating that the B-25 which crashed at , Boe Kelso, Washington on the early morning of August 1, had been sabotaged or shot ee eo down because of the fact that it carried flying disc fragments. SREP stated 7 a _ that on Thursday, July 31, at approximately 11:30 A, M. he received an anonymous phone call in which the caller stated that and Army Intelligence officers were meeting in room 502 of the ‘‘inthrop Hotel to check on the flying disc story from which fragments were obtained on Maury Island. qggg—Bstated he turned around to speak to his editor and when he picked oman i again the Jine was dead, Ue stated that the caller asked for who was out at the time of the call, He stated 7 alled g at room 502 in the Winthrop Hotel and was advised"by , QQ that he could furnish no information as he was there on a Government gi mission, tated that on Friday, August 1, between 11:00 A. HM. and noo he received another phone call cor qelanlinemats 5: which the anonymous caller stated ‘that he might have same information for him. asked the caller if he was not the same party that had called the previous date and he said yes, The caller then related that at that moment there was a big meeting in progress in om, 502, in the Winthrop Hotely that the B-25 which crashed that morning Kelso was carrying flying disc fragnents from California and that McChord Field officials had stated the plane was sabotaged or shot down. The caller then hung up after making some statement to the effect that he was a ewitchboard operator. tated that he went to the Winthrop Hotel on Friday ‘ about noon and found that there was no male operator on duty. He stated he then | went to room 502 and QM anewered the door and that Captain bee — pers United Airlines pilot, was on the phone. stated that he heard make sa statement to the effect that the information must be very strictly confidential, He stated that there were one or two others in the room besides but that he could not identify them. He stated that told him he could maXe no statement and that he had attenpted to check the story with various people on Maury Igland with negative results, He stated that about 3:30 P. M., Friday, he wrote a story regarding the mysterious informant and ie -—er his ‘> >hotel room, stating that he had written thig-story and that had better “ eheck it. He stated that he talked to the United Press Wireman, Tacoma, who advised that the story sounded fantastic. ee that about 53 0 Pe Mey Friday, August 1, an anonymous caller call the .«-.. eae . Ae Prick ae eT or . 7 . wa . . . a ae 2 , ee ee Ek re or ee Ee own oo: