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Dear Dr. Arcier:

How very kind you have been to me in taking your very valuable time to investigate and report back to me so fully regarding what I really saw reflected in Puget Sound on that bright August day in 1950.

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With your pex~ission, I shall use a substantial part or your letter in my weekly Sunday column to the Tacoma (\fash.) News Tribune, probably next week. I shall a~nd you a clipping.

Again, many thanks, Dr. Arcier. I feel it great privilege to have met you and I hope our paths may somehow bring us again.

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Wright Patterson A1rtoroe Bese Ohlo

Dear. Dr. Arc ier1

Perhaps JOU will remember me as being the only woman who was present ·at the briefing in which you participated on June 20, in the office ot Congressman John E. Henderson of Ohio. I was there representing Congres stTtan ·rollefson who was

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You will find enclosed photost~tic copies ot t~ articles which appeared in the Tacoma, washing ton News Tribune & SundaJ Ledger. These give the details in regard to the dnc1dent I related to you after the briefing session.

The Article which appeared August 20, 1950, wus printed the day tollow1. ng the one when I wrote the artie le which appeared a week later •

You ve17 kindly offered to look back in the files and try to determine tor me what if any record and/or explanation the Airtoroe has on this incident. I shall be looking forward to hearing tram you on this matter.

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