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August. 19, 1947 cation and should be in no way, carried as a news story and refused to furnish any information regarding these reports. He further stated that he advised the Boise Statesman shortly before, or at the time ETH vi to come to Tacoma to check on the flying disc stories with D/ and, CRISMAN that ARNOLD should not come as the entire story. was a hoax. wing information was obtained from aupetan Zy 4513 South. 7th, Tacor q igton, Proctor 8416, a rpporter for the T. Times: It was the Tacoma Ti is and- subsequent stories intim: B which crashed at hington on the early morni A botaged or shot s@. of the fact that it. car: J Ss NTZ that on ursday,, July 31, at apr € ] h ed an anonymous phone call in which g RN and Army Intelligence fficers were meeti. i linthrop Hotel to check on the flying dise story from which fra; ante were obt ned on Maury Island, LANTZ stated he turned around to speak to his’ editor and when he picked hone again the ‘i He stated that the caller asked for Bl a reporter 5 who was out at the time of the call, ‘He. stated that BURT h NOLD at room 502 in the Winthrop Hotel and advised by ARNOLD that he could furnish no information as he was there on a Government mission. LANTZ stated that on Friday ust 1, between 11:00 A. M. and noon, he received another phone call for BUR’ i in which the anonymous caller stated that he might have some information for him. LANTZ 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 ARNOLD's room, 502, in the Winthrop Hotel; that the. B-25 which crashed that morning in Kelso was carrying flying disc fragments from California and that MeChord 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 switchboard operator. LANTZ stated that he went to the Winthrop Hotel on Friday about noon and found. tk there was no male operator on duty. He sta he then went. to. room 502 and ARNOLD answered the door and that Captain EMIL J. SMITH, United Airlines pilot, was on the phone. LANTZ stated that he heard TH make a 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 SMITH and ARNOLD, but that he could not identify them. He stated that ARNOLD told him he could mae no statement and that he had attempted to check the story with various people on Maury Island with negative results. He stated that about 3:30 P. M., Friday, he wrote a story regarding the mysterious informant and called ARNOLD at his hotel room, stating that he had written thj Beery and that ARNOLD had better check it. He stated that he talked to 2RELLO, the United Press Wireman, Tacoma, who advised that the story sounde fantastic. LANTZ stated that about 5:30 P. M., Friday, August 1, an anofiymous caller called MORRELLO, the malt