Spying on Stringfield
Last week I posted a story concerning my research into those people within the UFO research community who had been the subject of government surveillance, which included the late Leonard Stringfield, whose involvement in UFOs extended as far back as the the early 1950s.
It was in the late 1970s, and up until the time of his death in 1994, that Stringfield’s name became forever connected with that of the crashed UFO. A collector of numerous accounts concerning all-things crashed and ufological, Stringfield published a number of Status Reports on those same accounts.
My post prompted one emailer to ask if I could elaborate on the surveillance of Stringfield. Yes I can. Stringfield became the subject of an FBI surveillance file that dated back to at least 1954. An extract from one FBI report contained in the file states:
A source of unknown reliability, an aquaintance of Leonard H. Stringfield who is the Director of the captioned organization Civilian Research Interplanetary Flying Objects, in October 1954 advised that Stringfield is the Director of the organization and is assisted by his wife, and that Stringfield writes and publishes monthly the multi-lithographed ‘Newsletter’ of the organization. He uses the ‘Newsletter’ to report news pertaining to the sightings of flying saucers and he claims the ‘Newsletter’ now has a world-wide circulation of about 4,000 copies…
…The same source furnished a copy of the ‘Newsletter’ [that] reports [Stringfield] had a private talk with Lieutenant Colonel John O’Mara, Deputy Commander, Intelligence, United States Air Force, on September 21, 1954, and that in essence Colonel O’Mara told Stringfield that flying saucers do exist and that past contradictions were unfortunate…
…Stringfield has stated that he believes his home telephone is being monitored, presumably by the Air Force, and that he therefore makes his phone calls to Lieutenant O’Mara at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from his office. Stringfield in talking about the possibility that the US Air Force might stop his operations, made a statement to the effect, “The Air Force can’t do anything to me. i’m claiming saucers are interplanetary.”
So much for the 1950s. Researcher Bill Moore claimed in the September 30, 1989 edition of his now-defunct Focus magazine that: “Drawing from my own knowledge and experience, I can summarize the individuals and organizations who were the subject of intelligence community interest between 1980 and 1984. It is important to remember here that in some cases, I was not personally involved, but rather only aware of these goings-on through conversations with others…”
Moore continued: “Stringfield remained the subject of some interest through 1983, after which I heard very little about him. The [counter-intelligence] people seemed to know a lot about Len and his sources. The impression I had was that someone else much closer to him than I, was keeping tabs on his activities, but of course I never knew for certain.”
In his 1991 booklet, UFO Crash-Retrievals, Stringfield himself wrote: “…I have other sources today who seem to know that I am currently a subject of interest to the intelligence community. If I could draw any conclusions from the travails of my past experiences, then I am also being subjected to both good information and disinformation.”
All researchers of the crashed UFO mystery can relate to that last comment, I am quite sure.
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Feb 27 2007 
February 27th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
You know what’s really interesting?
I was thinking to myself today about a story highlighted on Wonkette’s blog, about Bush I snowing Jimmy Carter with crash retrieval disinfo.
http://wonkette.com/politics/bush-41/jimmy-carter-targeted-by-bush-41s-bizarre-ufo-scam-239788.php
I thought to myself “Hmm, I am skeptical of this, since crash retrieval stories like this were not terribly popular until later in the 1970s with the Roswell/Aztec revival. Except of course for Leo Stringfield and a few others, and his ideas would have been pretty obscure for the CIA to use in disinfo.”
I guess not.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Dammit, I just posted a comment, and it doesn’t seem to have gone through.
Anyway, check this story out, of Sheehan via Wonkette
http://www.ufomystic.com/the-redfern-files/spying-on-stringfield/
on Bush I scamming Jimmy Carter with crash retrieval documents. I thought to myself that this story seems odd, since crash retrieval stories weren’t in fashion yet. Except to people like Leo Stringfield, but he must have been too obscure to base disinfo off his ideas.
But I guess he wasn’t
February 28th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Sorry, about that second comment. I like how I degenerated into abject inompetence (notice the link) after getting frustrated by what I thought was a failed attempt to make the first post.
Feel free to delete the second one.