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STANCARD FORM No. 64 . °
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TO ; Director, FBI (62-8389) pate: 7/22/54.

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suBjECT;.. TRUMAN BETHURUM;
C’ FLYING DISCS
MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING

(ESPIONAGE)

Remylet 6/8/54 and Bulet 6/22/5).

Attached are five copies of a memorandum
containing information set out in my letter of June 8,
1954 with additional information furnished by THOMAS

—TICKHOFF on July 2, 195k.

On July 2, 1954, although EICKHOFF had been
so advised at the time of the original interview with
him on June 7, 195i, he was again advised in accordance
with instructions in reBulet,

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ENCLOSURES (5)

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TRUMAN BETHURUM

FLYING I SCS

On June 7, 1954, Mr. Thomas Eickhoff, 3721
Tappan Avenue, Cincinnati 23, Ohio, Operator of Tom's
Beauty Salon, Neave Building, Fourth and Race Streets,
Cincinnati, Ohio, advised that although he belongs to
no organization interested in flying saucers or discs,
he has been interested in this subject.

He said on June 3, 1954 an ad appeared in
“The Cincinnati Enquirér", a newspaper of general circu-
lation in Cincinnati, Ohio, to the effect that on June
11, 1954 a program would be presented atthe Taft
Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio on "the real flying
saucer story." Mr. Eickhoff advised that this advertise-
ment disclosed no sponsor for this program and it was
only noted on the ad that tickets for the program sold
for $2.00 per person and would be on sale at the Central
Ticket Office in Cincinnati.

Mr. Eickhoff continued that because of his
interest in the subject of flying saucers, he desired
to know the sponsor of the program and found out from
the Central Ticket Office that the ad had been placed
by Henry~tMaday, 36 West Lewiston Avenue, Ferndale 20,
Michigan. He said he telephonically contacted Maday
on June 3, 195. and found that Maday was only the agent
having rented the Taft Auditorium and that he was
acting on behalf of Truman Bethurum and George Hunt
Williamson.

He continued that on June }}, 195). Maday
called him back and told him there had been a dis-
agreement between Maday, Béethurum and Williamson over
Maday's arrangement for the sale of tickets of the
program and the renting of the auditorium. Eickhoff
advised that Maday at no time said anything to discredit
either Bethurum or Williamson and indicated that their
disagreement concerned only Maday's placing the ad
in "The Cincinnati Enquirer" prior to having tickets
for the program available in Cincinnati.

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270 NOV 19 1964

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Mr. Eickhoff further related that about ten
minutes after he had talked to Maday on Friday, June h,
1954., he received a call from George Himt Williamson and
a Mr,>Manspeaker, who confirmed to him that Maday was no
longer associated with them, and asked that Eickhoff meet
with them at a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel,
Cincinnati, Ohio on June 7, 195).

Mr. Eickhoff, in explanation of his interest
in this matter, advised that he h…