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CI. 100-new (CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS) The "Newsletter" and the two newspaper clippings were forwarded to this office by JACK GUNDERMAN, 39l Teleford AvenueCincinnati 20 Ohio under date of 10/20/54.Mr. GUNDERMAN advisedthat he is employed as a layout artist Cincinnati 3Ohio and that he began work there on 8/19/54 He advised that the advertising manager of this company is LEONARD H. STRINGFIELD who is intensely interested in flying saucers and has created the Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Ob jects organization. He advised that STRINGFIELD is director of this organization and is assisted by his wife, that he writes and publishes monthly the multi-lithographed "Newsletter," and that he claims that the publication now has a world-wide circulation of about 4,00o copies at a subscription price of $2.00 per year. GUNDERMAN further advised that STRINGFIELD regularly communicates with FRANKEDWARDS,former A.F. of L. radio news commentatoron the subject of saucers and that, according to STRINGFIELD, EDWARDS is also intensely interested in saucers.EDWARDS recently warned STRINGFIELD to be very careful or the Air Force would stop STRINGFIELD's publishing activities.GUNDERMAN also related that STRINGFIELD main- tains that the Air Force was responsible for EDwARDs being fired as the A.F.of L. radio news commentator because EDwARDS GUNDERMAN related that STRINGFIELD states in the "Newsletter and also personally that the U. S.Air Force maintains a strict censorship of news pertaining to saucers, that the Air Force has several thousand saucer scientists working on a research project, and that any military personnel working on the project are subject to immediate court-martial if they reveal any facts about it. STRINGFIELD has also stated to GUNDERMAN that he be- lieves his home telephone is being monitored, presumably by the Air Force and that he makes phone calls to Wright- Patterson Air Force Intelligence Officer JOHN O MARA and to