LETTER TO MR. ALLEN W. DULLES FROM RICHARD OGDEN

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• Publication Date: February 22, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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Seattle 99, Washington
I'ebruary 22, 1959
.Alen t~ . Ii11es, director
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2430 E Street Hies.
Washington, D. Co.
gorge Adamski, Star Route, Palomar Terraces, Valley Center, California has named
the CIA in an exclusive interview t had with him here in Seattle as being guilty of a
conspiracy to silence him on December 17,, 1953.. Acting in behalf in the presense of
Mr. Adamski, Mr. Honey, Adamski's business agent filled out a questionnaire answering
the following questions with the approval of Mr. Adamski`.
1`. With respect to the interview by Mr. Bill Ballance on radio station KNX
in Los Angeles on December 7, 1953, three agents of the U.S. Government
came to your home on December 17, 1953o
a. You told me that one of these agents was from the M. can you
tell me where the other two agents came from? Mr. Honey's reply:= "Q:I.A."
What are the names of these agents and which one made threats
against you? Mr. Honey's reply: "Can't reveal."
Upon further questioning of Mr. Adamski, I managed to get him to admit that it was the
CIA agent that made threats against him but he said he didn't know his name but that he
did know the name of the FBI. However, he said this man had nothing to do with it but
was under orders of the CIA, and so because the FBI agent was a personal friend, he
didn't want to name him, since he wasn't responsible for the plot-to silence him.
c. Did the government agent mention any particular law that he said
justified the Attorney-General signing a warrant for your arrest
or just what did he say you did wrong? Mr. Honey's reply: "No."
d. Was the real purpose of this visit a conspiracy to intimidate you
into silence so as to discourage you from telling the American
people the truth about flying saucers and the people who ride
in them? Mr. Honey's reply: "Yes."
Bear in mind the fact that Mr. Adams1d also said, "Yes," to this question verbally.
Mr. K. Honey acted.as his agent in signing written answers to those questions'..
In a book called FLYING SAUCERS AND COMAION SENSE by Mr. Waveney Girvan, the
English publisher of Adsmski'S FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED, the story was first given
of how government agents had warned Mr. Adamslci to keep quiet and not mention the
government or its services.. He was further warned that a warrant had been signed for
his arrest and that the next time a thing like this happened he would be arrested'.
Ih error, Mr. Girvan said that the agents were all from the FBIf. Mr. Adamaki later
corrected this error. It seems Mr. Girvan got his information from a letter Mr.
Adamski had sent him, and apparently he had said government agents and this got to
mean (-men, and finally it got into the book as FBA:.
Anyhow, FBI records:. show that I have had them under investigation since 1956
regarding the part they played in this hoax on Mr.Adamskie su--ggg~~e~~st youur check my
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to my first inquiry to Mr. Hoover, his secretary, }[ len W. Gandy, tried to dodge my
inquiry by giving me false and misleading information. She told me to write the
Better Business Bureau of Los Angeles for answers to my questions on the matter.
A letter from them revealed they had no information and I was referred back to the
Department of Justice. The Better Business Bureau was never named by Mr. Girvan
in his book and Mr. Adamski was not. in business in Los Angeles. Therefore, when
Hooverta secretary asked me to write them. I"knew before I-even wrote the Better
Business-Bureau that this was foul play. So I sent another letter to Mr. Hoover
about this and he sent FBI agents to my home on August 23, 1956 to give me so more
false and misleading information. M. Zander told me that Mr. Adamaki had claimed
on a radio broadcast on December 7, 1953 at Los Angeles that his book had been
cleared by the FBI and that this was false. He said this was in violation of a law,
Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 709, "False Advertising or Misuse of Names to Indicate
Federal Agency," and this accounted for the visit. However, he refused repeatly to
put his claims in writing. And for this reason, I didn't believe a word he told me
because if he was telling the truth, he wouldn't have been afraid to sign written
statements. r was told by the other FBI agent that I. could investigate saucers all
I wanted to but to leave the FBI out. He told me to forget this story..
t went to the law books to check up on Mr. Zander and the law he said Mr.
Adamski violated. I discovered that amendment passed August 27, 1954 by Congress
amended section to bring in the use of the name or initials of the FBI. But the
radio interview in question took place in 1953. Mr. Zander then got a phone call
from me on September 11, 1957, and I confronted him with this information. He
answered by saying: "What are you--a lawyer?"" 1, of course, said, "No." However,-
neither am I :a fool, because his story wasn't checking out with the facts'. He
then denied having accused M..Adamaki of violating any law. I came back by saying
that he had the law written down on a small piece of paper and that this was the
sort of thing I?feared when insisting at the time they put their story in writing
so there won't be any ba ektracking or misunderstanding. To this he had nothing to
say;o-
Then on August 22, 1958 Mr. Adamaki came up here to Seattle on lecture and
I had him bring with him the tape recording of the broadcast of December 7, 1953
to find out if Mr. Adamski had claimed that his book had been cleared by the FB.I-,.
Mr. Zander was still holding to this portion of his story--a storyt mind you, that
I was told came from Mr. Hoover himself in response to my letter.. Upon listening
to the tape, Ii.discovered that he never made any such claim and that the whole
story given me by the two FBI agents was a vicious hoax. Z am enclosing a transcript
to bear out this fact.
On August 26,. 1958 IF received an unsuspected phone call from an FBIagent,
Mr. Edward G`. Gough, who claimed he wanted to interview me concerning my letters to
the Department of State regarding the "Straith Case." I :told him I 'wanted a taped
interview plus an witness, Mr. Gribble, of Aerial Phenomena Research Group';. This
was not agreeable with him. The reason I wanted this was because I told him how these
agents had come to my home to run down the character of an innocent man and give me a
false story and now Zander begin to change his testimony about what was said. He
knows I Gantt prove what was said, but this is not my fault. They cleverly refused
to put their story in writing. Mr. Hoover could have written no a letter and given
me the story but he sent FBA agents to give me a story verbably and if I-proved it
a hoax, they could always change their testimony.. Anyhow, Mr. Gough said he would
investigate this and call back. He never called back and refused my phone call to him
on February 18, 1959. Ho.rever, I did get in touch with lair. Zander only to have him
tell me the matter was none of my business or his own and that he didn't want anything
to do with it. He said the FBI was too busy to bother with W problems.. He wasn't
interesed in hearing what the tape said nor did he want a copy of it to prove the
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Lot me say right here. There is no law saying I cant investigate the FBI, your
agency, or any other agency of Government, and I do consider the matter my business
and I will not honor requests to forget it. I am doing this investigating because my
information is going into my book AIR FORCE EVIDENCE CONFIRMS ADAMSKI STORM under the
title: "Exposet'of the Silence Group."
Furthermore, I do not blame Mr. Hoover,. Mr. gander, or Mr. Willis,, or Mr. Gough
for this plot to silence Adamski or to give me the false information I received.
After all, your group represents the top intelligence agency in the country and Mr.
Hoover must take orders from you. I personally feel upon careful consideration of
this whole matter that Mr. Hoover is honest and would not have deceived me if he
hadn't received orders from the CIA to cover up for its operations.. So my complaint
is not against the FBI but against you and your group. Mr. Adamski doesn't blame the
FBI-either for its part in this affair because the one FBI agent was under orders of
the CIA._ The facts show that it was your group that was responsible for what I
believe was one of the dirtiest hoaxes I have ever seen.. I am even told by Mr. Adamski
that his attorney made an investigation and founded out that the CIA agent had lied
about any warrant being signed by the Attorney-General and on the way to California.
You and your group should be dissolved by Congress,. for 1fail to see that it is
serving any worthwhile purpose at all, Not only that but you try to use the FBI
to do your dirty,-work as a "front"'in that it was never revealed by the two FBI agents
that the CIA was the one responsible and.IJwouldntt have known this if Mr. Adamski
hadn't told me.
Personally,, I_ think that the FBI:. is.,honest but Z. can't say the same for your
group. You have used the FBI as a tool and I am glad that Mr. Adamski got the facts
to me as to who was to blame for this vicious hoax so that an innocent party-the
FBI wouldn't get blamed for something it wasn't responsible for.
Now that your organization has been revealed by Mr. Adamski to be the "Silence
Group,," the finger of suspicion falls on your men as being the ones who tried to
silence Mt. Albert K. Bender, who headed the International Plying saucer Bureau of
Bridgeport,; Connecticut, and who was warned that if he didn't close his organization
and shut up on the subject of saucers, that he would go to jail. These threats were
made by three men in black clothing of which Mr. Bender was too scared to name. I
can understand why George Adamski was warned not to mention the government or its
services in that he wasn't suppose to reveal the identity of the agents that visited
him. Mr. Bender wasnteither but Mr. Adaraski has now talked and the truth is at. last:
out,. This sort of action taken against Mr. Bender and Mr. Adamski is illegal. The
Government has no right to silence anybody on this subject and it is too bad Mr.
Bender never made this a court case. You couldn't send Mr. Render or Mr. Adamaki to
jail and you know it. This plot to silence Render took place in September 1953,
while the plot against Adamski took place in December 1953 and also by three men.
Why is the government afraid of the flying saucers?' Does the answer lie in the
fact that there have been cases where planes and lives have been lost and the cause
associated with the UFO? There must be some reason why such extreme measures would
be employed to scare people like Mr. Adamski and Mr. Bender,
Of course, this idea of Government agents trying to frighten and bluff people
into silence because they know something is not news to most of the world. It has
been in practice for sometime by the ruthless Soviet Secret Police, but it is news
for America that this sort of thing is going on here too in violation of the Con-
stitution..
BY the way,. ,fames W. Moseley, editor of SAUCER NE1S, Fort Lee, New Hersey was
going to print the answer to the flying saucer mystery and gave notice to this effect
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in the October 1954 issue and was going to print this in the November issue, but it
seems government agents got to him before he could get the information published. It
seems that just about everytime someone finds the answer, the agents get to him first
and silence him. Now I wonder if your group has Moseley working as an informant,
(I'do indeed have certain information that supports this idea), and that his maga?ine
ie being subsidizing by the Government. Instead, of stopping his publication like
in the case of B;nder,, he is being allowed to continue publishing but told what to
print.. That do you have to say about this theoryt
With respect to the so-called State Department letter to lair. Adamski knoem as the
OSv aith letter, `'' this was definitely an inside job by someone who knew a lot about
:fate Department office procedure.. Mr. Trench of FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, published in
tigland, suggest:a that your group was responsible for this letter for the purpose of
trying to discredit IMlr. Ademski. Io this truer
Both :1r. Adamski and Frank Scully claimed that someone tried to bribe them if
they would oh1y sign statements that their books were fiction. If they had accepted,
the government could have got them on mail fraud. as your group behind this toot
It ace=s you had a hand in stopping a law suit between a Kr..Thomas Eickhoff
over Adamskiss book in that you threaten to get injunctions to prevent witnesses.
from testifying--these witnesses being government scientists Mr..Adamski said went to
outer space with him. Apparently, there is just nothing your group wont't do in order
to stop the truth from reaching the people.
I realize that because I -confront you with these issues that you may try to
silence-me and yet while Lb.elieve I have made a careful investigation concerning the
plot to silence Mr. Adamski,, I do. think that it might be an injustice not to confront
you with these issues before having anything printed about your group,. I:do seek the
truth and I know that if I don't confront whoever the charges are being made against
and give them an opportunity to reply-could mean that what 1think is true may not be.
But L do have that tape recording, Mr. Girvant's testimony,; Mr. Adamskilb testimony,, and
FBI' testimony and I have spent almost three years on this thing, so r do not believe
that anything said in this letter is in error but I am willing to give you an opportunity
to state your case in my book. But I must have your reply in writing so that testimony
will be doc'amented and if you reply by the end of March 1959, 1will put your reply in
my book so that my readers will be able to read both sides. As I say,; because I bend
over backyards to be fair and confront you with my complaint, 1know Irun the risk of
being silenced like Bender but I will just have to take that risk in order to be fair
about this thing. Ebwever, I am sending copies of this letter to several individuals
just in case:'
Richard Ogden
MTOLOOURE: Transcript of a radio interview on KNX on December 7,, 1953 and ICFFT
T.V. of December. 26,; 1953. Transcription done by Times Square Steno Service of
414 Olive Way? Seattle,, Washington.
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Since you have the reputation of asking questions and answering none, I do not expect
an answer to this letter. On the other hand, it would not be fair to have charges
printed against you or your group without at least giving you the opportunity to
answer before my book goes to press it England or this countryt Therefore, my letter
has been sent by registered mail to prove to my readers that you have been confronted
with this issue. I do not believe that there has been any error in my long investi-
gation of t:ais matter but if you arc; c-f the opinion that error does exist, then this
is the opportunity to state your case. If I do not hear from you by March 22, 1959,
I will send my book to the publisher and assume that you have nothing to disprove
anything said in the enclosed letter.. If you desire to answer, I must insist that
your answers be in writing or if you send agents to explain your position, the'in-
terview will be taped with or without their permission, since everything must be
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This is a direct copy of a tape owned by William St. Clair, 6531 Philomen Avenue,
Vay Nuys, California. It was copied )y the House of Sight and Sound, 13513
Victory Boulevard, Van Fuys, California. Mr. St. Clair took this recording on
the night of the radio program. He did it automatically by the use of a timer
of the program.
This is W. J. Daly at Punic, California, and the following is a tape recording of an
interview of Mr. George Adamski over Radio K.N.X.. from 11:40 p. m. December 7th to
1:00 a. m. December 8th on the Bill Ballance program. As I was listening to the
interview it occurred to me to record this interview but about five minutes after
the start of the program-and a break in the recording will be noticed as I started
to record at fast speed and changed to slow speed later.
BALLANOE: Here's a George Harris who wants to know why has Robert Cole Gardiner
spoken out against "Flying Saucers Have Landed"?
ADAMSKI: I don't know, I haven't heard Mr. Gardiner, so I cannot answer that
question, but I will say that the picture which has been used on a
T.V. last week and also I understand in a lecture - and I would like
to make this correction just now, not because they're against anyone,
but just because of their truthful information, so that we may not get
all confused and fouled up on this great truth that's coming our way.
Ah, the picture of the little man between two great G-men, standing
chained, almost chains as big as the little man, enough to squash him
down, has been, I understand, taken in Germany and Munich, and was
made there, ah, for the purpose of a joke for a April Fools Day, and
it was brought to this country and it has been promoted on the basis
of truth, which there seems to be no truth. And yet, may I also say
something in behalf of our F.B.I.? I hate to see the F.B.I. being
used that way because they're gentlemen as far as I am concerned -
I have many dealings with them and they're wonderful people, and yet
to be used as brutes over a little man like that doesn't .... well, it
kind of belittles them, and I'd rather see that picture not used at
all anywhere.
(This is the only place in the program where Mr. Adamski made reference to the FBI-.
Unlike Hoover's version of the story given me by Mr. Lambert Zander and Mr. Galen
Willis, special agents of the FBI' Mr. Adamski never said his book or his theories
had been cleared by the FBI. But the mere fact that he did mention the PSI was
used to distort the truth and to send government agents to his home on December
17, 1953 in order to try and make him think he had done something wrong by mentionirg
the FBI. THIS IS A STRANGE WAY FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO HIT BACK AT SOMEONE WHO PRAISED
THE FBI'----RaO:)
(On the other side of the tape, an interview of Mr. Adamski that took place on
December 26, 1953 that consisted of a panal on KFFV T..V..was recorded);
FRANCIS: Getting back, for a moment or two, I understood Mr. Adamski through his
book to say that much of the information he had received was limited in
putting it out by Military? I think Mr. McKay has a question along that
line.
McKAY: Yes, Mr. Adamski, let us aassume$ for the moment, tthat there isi a great
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and that there's a good deal of truth to all these reports about flying
saucers. Then, what conceivable object could our Government have in
suppressing this sort of knowledge?
ADAMSKI: Well, I'm not at liberty to answer that.
McKAY: Who is prohibiting you?
ADAMSKI: There I can't say, Itm not at libertyto even say that.
McKAY: The denial to whose? That sounds like a violation of the Constitution,
freedom of speech, or something like that, I wonder about that a little
bit. Mr. Ed Baltimore again, I believe you've had your hand up there for
a moment?
(In my interview with Mr. Adamski, he named the Central Intelligence Agency as being
the one prohibiting him from answering these question as a result of himself being
silenced by the three government agents on December 17, 1953. Thus, here is proof
of a plot or conspiracy to silence Mr. Ada ski and as Mr. McKay points out, this
sounds like a violation of the Constitution. Mr. Adamski told me he had explained
before going on the air about the visit by government agents and why he couldn't
answer the questions. So the questions were brought up in order to show that he had
been silenced.--.RCO)
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