PRDPOSED H ... ili.ING 1961 ) ( li.CWDING HR HINE ' S VISIT USAF Historical Archives ASI(ASHAF-A ) AFB Ala 36112 Maxwe ' _ TO: Colonel Wynn SUBJ: Congressional Investigation of the UFO lr-ogram 1. At approxirr.ate 1515 hours 31 July C1L onel Mullins of AFLC called Project Blue Book office reportitg that he had been in .Ja-,j contact with Colonel Bol6ln~s office, .U!L.L slati ve Liason,. concerning Congressional Committee investigation ~ the Air Force UFO Prograrr.. He further stated that a staff investi or for the House Science and Astronautics Corr ttee (Congressmaol-Jverton Brooks, Los Angeles, Chairman) Mr Dick Hines, was going to ~es>it F1D in aLout a week t o 10 clays' and Col. Bolin suggested that~ prepare f or his visit. Col. Mullins was given Major Friends lEI"'We phone number, and was going to give. to Col. Bol&flll a s it ::i.s felt that it would be much to our advantage to hav e Hajor Fri!IRla at F'lD when Mr. Hines rr.akes his visit. NOTIFICATION OF OFFICIAL VISIT 2 . To: AFCIN-4X From: 'fD-E 4. Dates of Visit List of Visito r s Organizatio n Cl~n.ra~ ~ ~echnical hSSistant, H...QY.H. C .t on poie nce & Astronautics 6 . Purpose of Visit: Detailed briefing on the operat.ion of the Ai.t' ~ orce Jl'O t>r ogram 7 . Arrival 8 . Departure Place Time Date Via Time Date Via 9 . Billeting Requirements 10. Office of Primary Inte rest 11. Pro ject Officer Office Ext. r 1a1. Robert J . l<riond 69216 12. Meeting Location 13. Proposed Age nda Attached 14. REMARKS : -lr. Hines will be arriving f rom Colorado ~prlnijs, ~oloraoo. 1ooc of trrutsportatlon is unknown. 15. Name, Grade & Title of Initiating Office r 16. Signature ! n'Ith4 Colonel .1.;,1\Z ua~. f or ~ionce ~ Lompononts PROTOCOl. ARRANGEMENTS (To be completed by AFC I N -4X) 17. ATIC Escort Office r Office Ext. H o me Phone Courtesy call: Does visitor 19. Social Activity wish to visit any base per sonnel at home or office? Note in 14. /d,laciunont 1 to J,l'ICOI J?.-1 HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITED STATES AlA prOACE WRIGHTPATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHI O Congressional Investigation of the UFO Program To: General Pierce 1 . Reference our memo dated 14 July (copy attached) information was received on 1 August from Lt Colonel Joseph E . Boland, Legislative Liaison Office, Secretary of the Air Force, that a congressional inves- tigation of the UFO program i s definitely on the books. Mr. Richard Hines expects to arrive at WPAFB 0900, 14 August. Mr. Hines is the Technical Assistant for the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. Congressmen John McCormick (Mass. ) , Overton Brooks (Calif. ) , and Joseph Karth (Minn. ) are behind the investigation. have alerted Major Friend, the Project Officer on the UFO Program, who is presently on leave, to report back to Y~AFB in time to allow at least one-half day for d iscussion prior to arrival of the Committee. I have also alerted the contractor, Dr. Hynek, to be prepared ~o report to WPAFB on the selected date of reported investigation. 3. I propose to receive Mr. Hines and provi ded you a gree, bring him to your office for introduction, and then conduct the discussions in my 4. I propose to conduct the investigation along the following lines: FTD explores all reports and incidents concerning UFO items. Our objective is to get the facts, to analyze these facts, and to explain as clearly as possible the results of the analyses. We seek no publicity on our part, nor embarrassment of any individuals involved in reporting UFO incidents. As a matter of fact we try to protect, to the maximum, the individuals concerned. 'ltle have funds and personnel to investigate, on the spot, all incidents which appear to warrent such investigation. We utilize our own FTD facilities, and those of AFSC to make investigations and analyses. He call upon the entire resources of the USAF to assist in the investigations of UFO incidents. Where a satisfactory explanation can be found by the local organization or units of the USAF these organizations are utilized to the fullest. e . \ve give great consideration for quick reaction to all UFO incidents where conditions permit. All public information aspects of the UFO Program are handled by the Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Information, Hq USAF. 5. I will keep you posted of any further developments. <: ~WARD H. WYNN Colonel, USAF Deputy For Science and Components HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AIR FORCE SYSTE MS COMMAND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WRIGHT-PATTERSON AI R FORCE BASE, OHI O ATTN Of: TD- E sueJEcT: Congressional Investigation of the UFO Program To: TDG(General Pierce) 1. An article appeared in the 3 July 1961 issue of Ne'YTsweek, stating the possibility of a congressional investigation of the USAF UFO Program. Contact 'vi th the Secretary of Air Force, Legislative Liaison Office(SAFLL) revealed that there was no official information concerning such an investigation. However, SA.TI,L pointed out that unofficially there were indications that such an investigation would take place. Unofficial sources (SAFLL) have it that Congressman Joseph E . Karth, Minnesota, of the House Science and Astronautics Committee (Congressman Overton Brook, Los Angeles Chairman) would head the investigating team. investigation to be directed toward determining generally hm1 the USAF is handling the UFO Program and specifically the capabilities of FTD i n the analysis and investigation areas. 3 . SAFLL s present efforts a r e directed tm1ard heading off the investi- gation or, if it i s to occur, having it take place in Washington D. C. with Dr. J . Allen Hynek, Consultant to the UFO Program and Major Robert J . Firend , Aerial Phenomena Branch TD-E in attendance. 4. If the investigation is carried out at FTD I intend to handle it within the Deputy unless otherwise directed. EDWARD R. WYNN Colonel, USAF Deputy for Science and Components REI'L Y TO AEROSPACE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WRIGHT-PATTERSON A IR FORCE BASE AFCIN-4E/Major Friend/vw/69216 suBJECT: Congressional Investigation To: AFCIN-4E (Colonel Hynn) Major Friend contacted Lt. Colonel Tacker, SAFOI-3d, concern.i ng the article about Congressional Investigation of t he Ai r For ce UFO pro- lone l Tacker indicated that ther e was no official informa- tion on the subject; however he had cont a ct ed the office of Lt. Colonel Boland, SAFLL, regarding the articl e and woul d inform ATIC information which he rece i ve d . Major, USAF Aer i a l Phenomena Branch Pe .. iscoping the Nation llmo~k VI'!. llowlt>l'l llt1ullines o t:onu~ STATE D E PA RTMENT-Behind-the-scenes friction is building up betwee n Secretary Husk and his No. 2 man, Chester Bowles. Rusk is upset by the freewheeling Rowles' p enchant fo r going directly to the White House with his ideas -ideas that Husk sometimes hasn' t even seen. NEJJ'/ YORK CITY-Putting Negroes into high posts o n the New Frontie r has played hob with the top echelon of the National Association for the Advance m ent of C o lored People. The NAACP has lost a lmost as many top men as H a r- vard. Along with its chairman, Hober t \Veavcr {housing chi ef), went a roomful of its top legal brains. Now the NAACP hears it may lose an- other : Thmgood ~-larsha11 (who argued the schoo l-integration case be fore the Supreme Court) is in the running for a Federa l judgeship . /lOUSE CLOAKROOM-Flying saucers are ! back. A special tlU'ce-man House group will soon ' start a probe of 'unide ntified flying objects,'' officialese for saucers. [ts first job will be to stud )' Air Force UFO reports (which have scotched theories that tJ1ey come from outer space). Tile Inside Sory GETTYSB U RG, PA.-Public speculation to the contr ar y, Ike's intimates insist the forme r Presi- d ent is g iving no consideration to proposals that he run for the Senate o r for the governors hip of Pennsylva nia. "He'll remain active in public af- fa irs as a Hepublican leader,'' says o ne friend u t he won't go through anothe r campaig n un- der any cir cumstances now conceivable.'' iVEWP ORT JVEWS, VA.-The aircraft carrier Enterprise, due to put to sea in D ecember, may have to be a ship without a port. \Vitl1 e ight atomic power plants, the huge ship will b e ktpt out of major harbors b y the Navy's own safety r u les, and may be forced to ancho r far from shor e or use secondary p o r ts . NASifVILIJE , TENN.-Here's the sto ry behind .llor on t ' lylnJt StnwPrH Ut fonullt'"' ~w lrobiNn ttklnJt IIOI'IItlUIIIty that Hmry of rumors and denials about Supreme Court Justice H ugo Black re tiring and T ennes- Sen. Estes Kefauver replacing him. T e n- ness<.'<' Gov. Buford Elling ton, who'd like to namf' himself to the Sena te be fore his term runs next year, started the Kefauver talk and a \Vashington newsman tossed Black's nam<.' into th e rumor mil I. Ruuaadin~ Ouf flu ~ews I>EACE CORPS HQ-Sargent Shriver's recruit- have a new headac he: \Vhat about wiser, older hands to head up the task forces of eager ung volunteers? A new drive is in the works to ound up "mature" candidates from such groups Scout leaders, schoolteache rs , 4- H Club supervisors. They would, inci.dcntally, draw l1ig hc r pay than the younger recruits and would s kip the five-and-a-half-hour "entrance exam." HOUSii CLOAKROOM-JFK's m an-on-the- moon project may have to conquer more than gravity. Democratic Re p. Clarence Cannon, hairman of the House Appropriations Commit- tee, already has asked the President to scale down the project, calling it "a fantastic waste of m oney." His argument: \\'hat good is an Ameri- can on the moon if Russians take over the earth? P ENT /iGON-A new and fiendishl y ingenious anti-guerrill a weapon is b e ing tested by the Navy. I t's a delayed-action liquid explos ive, squirted from a Aam'e-throwe r-like gun, that seeps into foxholes and bunke rs. Seconds later, fed by oxygen from the a ir, it blows up with terrific force. \\'lur .\rtc They :Xow MADISON, JV.}.-Whe n the Sovie t pincer s closed to starve the \Vestern Powers out of Berlin thirteen years ago this week, man-o n-the-spot for American ~lilitary Governo r Gen. Lucius C lay was a to ugh , fast-talking, curly-haired frishman, Newsweek, july 3, 1961 (No part of Tl1c Periscope mav IJ11 reproduced tvitiJout 1orittcn per mission) Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley, commander of the Berlin garriso n. Today, H owley, whom the Bus siuns cursed as the "Beast of Berlin" and \Vest Berliners hailed as the savior of tl1cir cily, is vice president of New York University. Tie re turned to NYU (from which he was graduated in 1925) in 1952, three y<'nrs after he left th e Mmy. A for- mer adman, art student (ut the Sorbonne), and a of inte rnational re nown, H owley, now lives here in n house described h y his w ife, Edith, as 'middlc >-nged , like omsclves." They have a 17-ycm-old daughter and three sons, one an first lit>ute nant stationed a t Fort Bragg, the other two college students (at NYU, natmally). Howley, who led the first ground party into Her- lin, rides horseback as often as possible and is a tire less worl d travele r. H is wife says of his com- ings and goings (he just got back from a month- long trip to Africa and Europe): '' ft's tlw story of my life." JJ'IARE 1\'ECK , Jl A.-1.1 Gen . Willi am H . Tunner, cold ly efficient (tit 1111<lndc r of the massive ai rli ft that kept W<~ lkrlin nlive during tlw eleven-month Hcd h!ICIIIL."lmd<', is oul of th e Air Force and down nul l"lc farn1. Jt's a tOO-acrt' spread- mostly cunHtlla this wa terfront town in so11tlwastern Virgini,d i s l1ousc is n white-frame Colonia l, built in l8:ll-wh e re he lives with his wife, Ann, daugl1trrlt11 nannt', 8. (Son William, 27, is a doctor; j<Jst[h ~ 21, is n stud<:'nt at the l lniversity o f Vir~nil. ":> A stern tnskmasttr (his nickname was "Will~ tJ1c Whip"), Tunner pio- big-scale 11i~f ts with th e memorable " Jl ump operation in\""'.7 orld \ Var ll, and retired last year after a 1nur ~ts ~ lATS chief. Now .54, he's a director of s11t - r aJ companies, including Seaboard World Airlil~ s , hut spends most of his "trying to kc('jltl a c fa rm running," fishing, and writing a book-~1 airlifts. The curre nt Ber- 1 in crisis? " It isn 'llll) :>lis i ness." Periscoping the World '\'\'orld \'\'laistus U1VITED IVATIOJVS-Buried in the mass of flg ures in that experts report on divvying up U.N. posts on th e basis of population, was this rriso me fa ct. If Red China, with 650 million ple, should h e admitted to th e U.N., Peking rate no less than .'32 posts-six more th an U.S., U.K., France, and Canada combined. PARIS-Charles de Gaulle's troubles with th e army may not b e over. With 21-! officers jailed (and nearly 1,000 slated for purge or resigna- tion ) for taking part in th e army revolt in Alge- ria, th e French high command has been forced fill key African posts w ith officers taken ut of Algeria because of rig ht-wing leanings. EMB ASSY ROW-\\'esterners will get th eir first look at Yuri Gagarin's spaceship next month. The occasion: A mamnH>th aiYshow to be held at Tushino airport just outside .\ loscow. And no one be too sur prised if th e Kremlin shows off th e 800,000-pound-thrust missile that rocketed Gagarin into space, plus important new military equipment. This hardware di splay would, of be part of the war of nerves over Berlin. Dlttltmu ie touela COIVAKRY, GUI I\'EA-H ere is confirmation that Premier Sekou Toure is not so solidly in the Kre mlin camp as may be thought: H e is hop- ping mad a t the Soviet Union and oth er satellite countries for failing to deliver commercial orders on time And plans for a big iron-ore develop- ment ht>rc call furlitu "lcing by a group of \ Ves t European bankers. PEKII\'G-Tl1c 11(~1( -=llinese are moving to woo more of the world'sH{' --d s out of ~loscow's o rbit. Visiting Heds fromlnr lcmesia, Japan, and I ndia are being royall)lli---d and dined here and at the samt' time they lilt' b eing urged to reorganize the ir thinking 111! Pe king's d eath-to-the- ca pitalists VI ENNA -Is a liiw1la y toute d front-runner in the who'll-succecdKl~ '-lSh chev sweepsta kes fad- ing? D mit ri Po lyansli_ boss of th e Russ ian Re- public, was compitullll( >t1sly absent from three important gniiKA.: rings of Soviet brass. He missed a parley uf 1u t )' lead ers in the Bo lshoi Theater, a spnccnn~r-ocketr)' award- g iving ses- sion, and lasl we!'k'! ;(rem lin gala marking the of the Sovict-Xv ii war. LOJVDOJV-Britain'!t.-t.dmirals n ow are thinking a big c:arricr pmy111 :1. to inc:ludc at least three 50,000-tonners :uul r,. >til' smaller "commando" types. The reasnn: I -:and bases in areas like Southeast Asia nnd t1 e [ ndian Ocean will lose their usefulness <IS 100 e Britis h co lonies become nt nati1ms--and as Red China gets closer to jo ining lhtIJI uc:le ar club. EMB;1SSY ROW - ll ' ' 'llsn't all cha-cha-cha dur- ing I ndonesian Prc1ilw~t1t Sukclrno's r ecent ;o.tos- visit. While siq-I"lg a nd dancing, Sukamo firmly rebuffed all :till-rnpts to woo him into g iv- ing up U.S. gn1niHfif' more than S500 million. DA iCi~lL fiLE COPY AFCIN-4E/M8Jor Friend/vw/69216 Congressi onal Hearings (UFO) AFCIN-4E (Colone l Evans) 1 . On 17 May 1961 Major Col eman, SAFOI-3c , called and informed me that the pressure was on for a congressi onal hearing on unidentifie d flying object s . He ind1cate d that it was the opinion of SAFLL that we would be b ef or e Congress prior t o December 1961. 2 . Major Col eman stated that most of the presen~ pressure was f r om Congressman Downing of Virginia, a s evidenced by a nine page l et t er the Congressman which r e qu1res a paragraph by paragraph a ns wer. ROBERT J. FRIEND Major, USAF Committee on Joseph E. Karth 4t!l District, Minnesota COIDRESS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Washington, D. C. Science and Astronautics rt.ajor Donald E. Keyhoe 1526 Connecticut Avenue, N. vl. 'Washington, D. C. I have read 1-Ti th interest the copy of your lett Overton Brooks including suggested "hearing plans." Perhaps I have been misled in this whole business of UFO. However, it -was my belief that you, your o:!'ganization and othe1s like it, actuaJ Jy had proof that UFO' s did in fact exis-t; and that you 1-rould be p repared to prove this during the course of the hearing. And further that UFO' s vrere not merely the result of space or atmospheric phenomena, but actua J J y -were craft (of sorts) from other planets. "tva.s sadly disappointed as I. rea d your proposed plan, suggestions and v:i.e"tvpoints. I cannot help but feel after so reading, that your primar.y if not sole objective, is to 'be-~lttle', 'defame', 'ridicule' (11ith the least possibl e publicity, you say) and. thereby cause the U. S . Air Force embarrassment tmJ ess they bare to you and others, all informa- tion you seek, inc~luding such information t.rat may well involve our Nation's security. I too am opposed to um~ecessar.y secrecy. Hoi-rever, 1.mnecessar.y or uml8.::ranted secrecy is nothinn; more than a nntter of opinion. And so even though you and I are opposed to such, 1-re may \Tell disagree on extent and content. .As a former mill tary officer, you in your judgment and lmmrlng all the facts, in all probability \vi thheld from the public, kno"trledge I ITOuld not have considered "secret. peat .. I have opposed and 'tli.J~ continue to oppose uml8.rra.nted secrecy. At the same time I wlll not support a proposition smeJJing of sour grapes in disguise. Your letter to Cbai nr.an Brooks (ineludin.g your proposed plan) concerned itself' aln:.ost totally, in U"r opinion, vli. th eVident dislike and ma.licious intent toward a great branch of the rnili tary.. In fact it sounded to me like nothing more than cheap service rivalry. Nmv I hasten to add that I could be wrong, but I have read many plans and proposals i n my day and must say I recognize a little prejudice and/or dislike "1hen I see it. If you are not in a position to make a good case" that UFO' s are some kind of foreign craft, I ' m not even interested in holding hearings. T'.nis I thought to be your purpose. Certainly I'm ClAL _ FlLE COP..Y TD-t!/!obJor FrieDA/vv/69216 l