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é CI. 100-new (CIVILIAN RESEARCH, INTERPLANETARY FLYING OBJECTS) The "Newsletter" and the o newspaper clippings were forwarded to this office by JACK*¥GUNDERMAN, 391) Teleford Avenue, Cincinnati 20, Ohio, under date of 10/20/54. Mr. GUNDERMAN advised that he is employed as a layout artist by the DuBois Company, Inc., 1120 West Front Street, Cincinnati 3, Ohio, and that he began work there on 8/19/5h. 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 Objects 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 1,000 copies at a subscription price of $2.00 per year. GUNDERMAN further, advised that STRINGFIELD regularly communicates with FRANKMEDWARDS, former A..F. of L. radio news commentator, on 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 used his program to publicize his (EDWARDS) saucer interest. 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