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Director, FBI August 27, 1947 Re; Flying Discs - Tecoma, Wn. He stated that the next morning he received a call from CHRISMAN who told him thet Lieutenan OWN and Capte \VIDSON had been killed in a -25 crash. He stated he does not know how fi io had been in the plene before anyone else. He also stated that duri the above conference numerous telephone calls were received from the press, wanting to know about the conference. He stated that someone kept tipping + press off as to what was going on and what was being said deily verbatim. fe informed that PAUL LAND and MORELLO, United Press men at Tacoma, appeared to know all that took place during the conference, d even knew of the crash of the B-25 and those eboard, before the Army released this information. 1} ARNOLD informed that when he received news of the crash, that he and Captain SMITH fully expected to be contacted by Army Intelligenc as they were the last people with Lieutenant BROMN and Captain DAVIDSON, however, they were never contact He further stated that he and Captain r jown to the United Press to see what the survivors of the cresh had informed about the crash and that MORELLO hed told them that the mysterious informant who had been calling had told him that the B-25 had not crashed, but had beens hot down, also t LLO's Army informant hed said t+ en observer at Kelso, Washin seen the plane throw out a landing flare after the two survivors had from the plane, and that the plane had gone into a steep dive and dove into a hillside, and further that one engine had been on fire, but that the fire apperatus, protecting the engine, had failed to function. Mr. ARNOLD stated that DAHL then came to see him and Captain H and told m to go home and forget about the discs, that such things as the B-25 crash had been happening to him all alor Mr. ARNOLD stated that he then called Mr. PALMER at Chicago and told him thet the deal was off and that if b anted his $200.00 back, he could have it; that two men had been killed and he was getting frightened of the whole thing. He stated that PALMER informed him that it was ell right with him to keep the $200.00, however, he would send him an additional check for the trouble he had put to. Mr. ARNOLD advised that previous to this telephone call, Captain SMITH called his friend, MORRIS RODDY, of the Chicago Times and had told him that he did not have any faith in Army ‘ntelligence an or RODDY to conduct an investigation on PALMER and get to the bottom of thi disc fantasy. Mr. ARNOLD also advised thet previous to the two above telephone calls, he hed asked the press to investigate PALMFR, as Army Intelligence hed informed him tht they could not find PALI and knew nothing concerning him, and appeared not to be interested in oR, who seemed to know more about the flying discs than anyone else. r. ARNOLD stated that he personally thinks thet PALMER's business is something else and thet DAHL and CHRISMAN will ything that him to and will not talk unless PA wR tells t to. Mr. ARNOLD he still wanted to get to the bottom of the disc fragment story SMITH | decided to go to Mauri Island on & » August 3, 45