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  Maury Island incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In spite of the threat Dahl had reported the incident to his immediate superior, Fred Crisman, who had long claimed to have experience with unusual phenomena (and who was later linked to the John F. Kennedy assassination).
Crisman gathered more of the slag, then called in the press, who in turn called in Kenneth Arnold to investigate the incident.
The investigators were largely unimpressed with Crisman and with his evidence, but agreed to take some of the slag with them for further inquiry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maury_Island_incident   (654 words)

  
 SUMMARY OF
Crisman was also involved with a government program to 'help gypsies', was tied_in with the O.S.S., and was a member of a secret fraternity of former Intelligence officers, and was also involved with organized crime, according to Garrison's investigations.
Of course the strangest aspect of the Crisman connection was that it was Fred L.
Crisman himself who handed over 'metal_slag' samples that were reportedly found after a UFO dropped the substance over the Maurey Island area near Tacoma, Washington in 1947.
www.newsmakingnews.com /crismankimory.htm   (670 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Patrick Leahy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The 1998 election was noteworthy in that Leahy had the rare endorsement of his Republican opponent, Fred Tuttle.
Fred was the lead actor in the Vermont movie Man With A Plan, in which a farmer decides to run for the House.
Fred was persuaded to run in real life for the Senate; after a surprise defeat of the other Republican candidate Jack McMullen, Fred told voters to vote for Leahy because he didn't want to move to Washington D.C. Leahy was touched by this gesture; he once said that Fred was the "distilled essence of Vermonthood".
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Patrick_Leahy   (618 words)

  
 disinformation | maury island ufo: fred crisman and covert infiltration of ufology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
If Crisman was making a bid to become a UFO celebrity like Kenneth Arnold, he did little after that to further the cause.
Crisman declined to offer his own address due to his distaste for publicity (a claim contradicted by his soon-to-come career as a shock jock, if not by the lecture itself), but he did provide an address for Harold Dahl.
Crisman closes with a report that he went to the original Maury Island UFO site, and found it barren of plant growth and surrounded by signs that the area would be razed for the sake of an unnamed federal project.
www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id904/pg1   (1050 words)

  
 Conspiracy Planet - Killer Spooks - Fred Crisman:Key Man in JFK/UFO Conspiracy/Coverup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crisman is also named in New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's 1968 investigation into the Kennedy assassination, in which Garrison maintained that Crisman may have been an assassin working on behalf of aerospace concerns to kill Kennedy.
Dahl reported these events to Crisman, who is described as Dahl's "superior." Crisman went to Maury Island to take a look, and not only saw a great deal of both materials on the shore and recovered some for himself, but also claimed to have had his own sighting of a doughnut-shaped craft.
Crisman turned samples of the debris to them, which was loaded into their plane, a B-25 bomber.
www.conspiracyplanet.com /channel.cfm?channelid=94&contentid=1033&page=2   (849 words)

  
 DEROS
When Crisman was gone, Arnold told Brown and Davidson he'd been to see Dahl's boat and found that while it was old and battered, it didn't really display the kind of damage from the falling slag Dahl claimed.
Fred Crisman had served in the Army Air Force in World War II, and in 1947 found himself recalled to active duty.
Garrison's sources felt that Crisman might be one of the three "tramps" arrested on that November morning 1963 in Dallas, and Garrison called him before the grand jury to testify.
www.newsmakingnews.com /crismanderos.htm   (3280 words)

  
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Dahl reported these events to Fred Crisman, a man he believed to have some connections in the intelligence community.
Crisman subsequently went to Maury Island to investigate the incident.
Crisman was later compelled to turn over his samples to the two investigators.
www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/ufo04u15.htm   (748 words)

  
 Robertson Panel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
According to FBI records on Crisman, disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act and on file at the Assassination Archives and Research Centre (AAC) in Washington, D.C., Crisman was a Captain in the Army Air Corps and had seen active service during the Second World War.
August 1947, Crisman was either appointed as a Harbour Patrol worker, or more likely as there are no records of him in this position (although this is not to say he didn’t hold that job) he collected and sold salvage.
It is likely that it was Crisman who was contacting the press to alert them to Arnold’s presence and the nature of his enquiries.
www.violations.org.uk /book3/deniability/plausiblepart2.htm   (4203 words)

  
 Fred Lee Crisman Archive
Crisman is constantly leaving jobs, not because he was fired, but because the CIA asked him to resign.
Fred L. Crisman incidentally was a 'witness' to the Maurey Island event and had helped two Army G-2 agents acquire 'slag samples' which fell from one of the six DONUT-SHAPED ships observed.
Fred Crisman was the first man Clay Shaw called when he heard that Garrison intended to implicate him.
www.newsmakingnews.com /crismanarchive.htm   (2218 words)

  
 Maury Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fred Crisman was flying fighters in the Pacific until the end.
At the end of the war, Crisman, supposedly discharged from the military, entered a special OSS Internal Security School and was quietly transferred to the newly formed CIA (the CIA was chartered in 1947), where he operated as an "extended agent", primarily as an internal security specialist in "disruption" activities.
Their arms were loaded with the heavy lava rock fragments and Crisman had a number of pieces of the white metal that he said came from the aircraft that Harold Dahl told us about.
www.seanet.com /~johnco/maury.htm   (5149 words)

  
 Famous UFO Crashes - UFO Evidence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arnold interviewed Crisman an his associate Harold Dahl who claimed they were harbour patrolmen (their first lie).
Crisman reported that they had seen a doughnut-shaped craft dump piles of slaglike material on the beach of Maury Island in Pugent Sound.
Crisman and Dahl later confessed to investigators that they had made up the story.
www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1687.htm   (4558 words)

  
 The Maury Island UFO Mystery, UFO Casebook Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the letter, Crisman claimed that he was a Harbor Patrolman at Tacoma, Washington and that he and an employee of his named Harold Dahl had seen several UFOs near Maury Island in Puget Sound.
Crisman did not believe Dahl, and was in fact angry about the boat being damaged.
Crisman, meanwhile, had taken a boat out to the spot on Maury Island to investigate.
www.ufocasebook.com /mauryisland1947.html   (798 words)

  
 Project Blue Book - UFOs and Project Blue Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On one piece that Crisman handed us we could plainly see that two parts of it had been riveted.
It is also now known that Fred Crisman himself was no lowly harbour master nor salvage collector.
In fact, Crisman both had strong CIA connections and was later indicted for the assassination of President Kennedy, of which more later.
www.violations.org.uk /book3/confusion/project_blue_book.htm   (860 words)

  
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Palmer stated that strange men in dark suits, possibly govern- ment agents, were seen in the area, and his conversations with a high- ranking Air Force officer were bugged and he himself was under surveil- lance.
Fred L. Crisman who was a principle 'witness' to the Maurey Island event was a good friend of Clay Shaw, whom Louisiana District Attorney James Garrison [see the movie "JFK"] accused of being the CIA-Mafia go-between in the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Crisman was also, according to Anthony Kimory, a good friend of Marshall Ricon- osciuto, the PRO-HITLER father of Michael Riconosciuto who had gain- ed notoriety for his role as a witness in the "INSLAW" investigation of Justice Dept. corruption, computer piracy, etc. Michael was also a Wackenhut employee at the Nevada Test Site.
www.paranormalnews.com /textfiles/ufos/Bruce_Walton_The_Underground_Nazi_Invasion_35.txt   (4600 words)

  
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Fred Lee Crisman, Jim Hicks and Jim Braden (alias Eugene Hale Brading) were also recruited at this point.
Crisman received the command from Hicks and caused Frenchy to fire a shot from a position behind the fence on the knoll, about twenty feet west of the corner of the fence.
Fred Lee Crisman - OSS and CIA domestic agent from Tacoma, Washington.
www.acorn.net /jfkplace/03/Whole/TOA   (19597 words)

  
 BEFORE ROSWELL
Fred Crisman not only didn't admit it was a hoax but in the January 1950 issue of FATE he called those accusations a "bald-faced lie."
Their arms were loaded with heavy rock fragments and Crisman had a number of pieces of the white metal that he said came from the aircraft that Dahl had spoken about.
In the 95th Congress at the hearings before the select committee onassassinations, it was suggested that Crisman was one of the three tramps at Dealy Plaza.
n6rpf.com-us.net /mauryisl.html   (1902 words)

  
 EARLY NEWSPAPERS OF PORTER COUNTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He leaves a wife and two children by a former wife, Fred HESS, of this county, and a daughter in Grand Island, Neb. The funeral will be held from the late home tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
Fred KUEHL of this city, a half brother, John REASON, of Cairo, Nebr., a brother, Charles REASON, of Chicago, and three sisters, Lena REYNOLDS, of Missouri, Emma STROM, of Chicago, and Bertha MOFFIT, of Chicago.
Surviving are three sons, Edward, William and Herman of Valparaiso; Fred of Wheeler; one daughter, Mrs.
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 disinformation | casolaro's octopus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the 1960s, Crisman was subpoenaed by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison as part of his investigation of the Kennedy assassination.
Some researchers claimed that Crisman was one of the "railyard tramps" arrested near Dealy Plaza on November 22, 1963; others note that he possibly gave refuge on his Oregon ranch to a member of the Minutemen, an early militia group investigated by the Warren Commission.
Little suggests that Casolaro knew of the Crisman connection, or of the significance it might hold for what he already knew about Area 51 and the other secret airbase that held his attention, Australia's Pine Gap.
www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id901/pg2   (1395 words)

  
 06-21-1947
Crisman reported that he and anĀ­other harbor patrolman, Harold Dahl, had seen flying saucers and had fragments of material that had dropped from them.
Crisman said that when he had gone out to the beach to retrieve some of the material, one of the flying doughnuts "circled the bay as if it was looking for something." Arnold got the distinct impression that Crisman "definitely wanted to domineer the conversation...
The next day Crisman and Dahl brought pieces of lava rock and white metal and brought them downstairs to meet several rough-looking men who were introduced as members of the crew.
www.waterufo.net /item.php?id=59   (1892 words)

  
 Cold War Ghost Rockets Kenneth Arnold Doolittle Mount Ranier Roswell Jesse Marcel Wright Field George Adamski John ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dahl reported the incident to his ‘boss’, one Fred L. Crisman, who at first did not believe his tale and reprimanded him for damaging the boat.
Crisman found the beach covered in slag, estimating nearly 20 tons of the material, and then, one of the strange donut shaped machines swooped out of the clouds towards him.
Crisman that consideration be given to revoke his Air Reserve commission and flying status as an undesirable and unreliable officer." (23)
www.violations.dabsol.co.uk /confusion/confusionpart2.htm   (2393 words)

  
 UFOSearch # 5 part 2 of 3 - Premonitions of The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crisman says that he went out to the island and there was a lot of debris there.
Crisman is a ball of fire, says he was a fighter pilot during World War II, in Burma.
Crisman had told Arnold that he knew of Palmer through "Venture Magazine." But Arnold knew there was no such magazine but Palmer's company was called "Venture Publishing." The United Press building was right across the street from the hotel.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1997/may/m30-023.shtml   (4286 words)

  
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Crisman had been A FLIER IN WORLD WAR II, and he was suddenly RECALLED into the service in 1947, FLOWN TO ALASKA, and later stationed in Greenland.
District Attorney JAMES GARRISON of New Orleans subpoenaed one FRED LEE CRISMAN of TACOMA, WASHINGTON, to testify before the Grand Jury listening to Garrison's evidence against Clay Shaw (Jim Garrison was portrayed by Kevin Costner in the popular motion picture "JFK" - Branton), according to wire service stories in November, 1968.
Of course, the CIA was in its infancy in 1947 at the time of the Maury Island case and was then largely staffed by NAVAL personnel from World War II intelligence units.
www.fortunecity.com /roswell/prediction/51/text-files/mojave/mojave12.txt   (11830 words)

  
 Chemtrail Central :: View topic - Waaay OT: Neu Schwabenland
According to FBI records on Crisman, disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act and on file at the Assassination Archives & Research Centre (AAC) in Washington, D.C., Crisman was a Captain in the Army Air Corps and had seen active service during the Second World War.
Crisman’s activities can then be traced to 21st August 1947 when the FBI carried out a security check on him for an unspecified position with the Atomic Energy Commission — although Crisman never took up the post according to the files.
That they were on their way to Wright-Patterson AFB with the objects Crisman had given them, was entirely logical — Wright Patterson (then Wright-Field) was the major research and development centre where many of the Nazi scientists had been taken to continue their work.
www.chemtrailcentral.com /forum/msg22316.html   (14831 words)

  
 Majestic Documents.com: Evidence We Are Not Alone
There is also much speculation surrounding Crisman, and rumors suggest that he was not an innocent party in the affair and was linked with the world of intelligence and may have been tied to the wartime Office of Strategic Services.
CIC agent Crisman had spoken to Kenneth Arnold, who on 26 June 1947, had reported a flight of UFOs over Mt. Rainier, Washington, and filed his report after he had spoken to Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown.
In our ongoing validation project, we are posting here the FBI’s officially released file on Fred Crisman and the Maury Island incident — all of which combined reveal a wealth of information on the events in question and on the life of Fred Crisman.
www.majesticdocuments.com /personnel/crisman.php   (467 words)

  
 Harold A. Dahl
De retour au port, Dahl rapporte les événements à son officier supérieur, Fred Crisman.
Crisman promet de rappeler Arnold dès que le problème serait résolu.
The film from our camera, developed showed these strange aircraft, but the negatives were covered with spots similar to a negative that has been close to an X-ray room before it was exposed except that the spots printed white instead of fl as in the usual case.
www.rr0.org /DahlHaroldA.html   (1787 words)

  
 Christian Defense League by D. Boylan 2004 Revision
Crisman is another intriguing character that became a subject of interest by both Jim Garrison and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Beckham credited Crisman's connections to "The Organization" in helping locate Beckham in Lincoln, Nebraska where he "took off after the assassination of the President." Crisman suggested that he relocate to Omaha where Garrison couldn't reach him.
Crisman became a subject of investigation by Garrison in his probe.
cuban-exile.com /doc_026-050/doc0046.html   (4948 words)

  
 UFOS at close sight: 1947 July 31, Maury Island UFO crash hoax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The story surfaced from Ray Palmer (editor of Amazing Stories), regarding a man called Fred Crisman who claimed to have actual physical evidence of a flying saucer, July 31, 1947.
Crisman reported that they had seen a doughnut-shaped craft dump piles of slaglike material on the beach of Maury Island in Puget Sound.
A sceptic association investigated the case, which they date to 21 June 1947 instead of 31 July 1947 (?), and gives the explanation "foundry slag, unrelated plane crash", note that Ed Ruppelt was involved in the investigation and classifies the event as "admitted hoax".
ufologie.net /htm/maury47.htm   (359 words)

  
 Historic UFOs - Metal Found In UFO Probe On Fatal Plane Crash -1947
Smith said the pieces of metal or lava were "extremely heavy" and when he and Arnold obtained them, showed evidence of having been subjected to extreme heat.
Arnold had gone to Tacoma earlier this week to investigate a story told by Harold Dahl and Fred L. Crisman of Tacoma who operate a concern known as Harbor Patrol, according to Arnold.
Dahl and Crisman, according to Arnold, said that their boat was struck by portions of what had appeared to be a flying disc "in trouble" and they had recovered portions of the metal.
www.rense.com /historic/ff.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Alien-UFOs.com Network Forum - E-BAY prt5 :)
Shortly after that a man named Fred Crisman sent Ray Palmer (the air force calls him the father of the Flying Saucers) a box of fragments said to come from a Flying Saucer that appeared to be in distress over Maury Island.
Over the years these fragments have been analyzed but the result have been inclusive except the calcium didn’t burn off at the temperature it normally does and it is heavier then it should be.
It also can’t be proved where is came from, except that is where Crisman said it came from.
www.alien-ufos.com /forum/printthread.php?t=5700   (554 words)

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