Excerpt: ...of hoaxes that always accompany UFO publicity. Last, it
would provide us with material on which to base a study of the
effect of newspaper publicity upon the number and type of UFO
reports. Colonel Dunn liked the idea of the clipping service, and
it went into effect soon after the first publicity had appeared.
Every three or four days we would get an envelope full of
clippings. In March the clipping service was sending the clippings
to us in letter-sized envelopes. The envelopes were thin-maybe
there would be a dozen or so clippings in each one. Then they began
to get thicker and thicker, until the people who were doing the
clipping switched to using manila envelopes. Then the manila
envelopes began to get thicker and thicker. By May we were up to
old shoe boxes. The majority of the newspaper stories in the shoe
boxes were based on material that had come from ATIC. All of these
inquiries from the press were adding to Blue Book's work load and
to my problems. Normally a military unit such as ATIC has its own
public information officer, but we had none so I was it. I was
being quoted quite freely in the press and was repeatedly being
snarled at by someone in the Pentagon. It was almost a daily
occurrence to have people from the "puzzle palace" call and
indignantly ask, "Why did you tell them that?" They usually
referred to some bit of information that somebody didn't think
should have been released. I finally gave up and complained to
Colonel Dunn. I suggested that any contacts with the press be made
through the Office of Public Information in the Pentagon. These
people were trained and paid to do this job; I wasn't. Colonel Dunn
heartily agreed because every time I got chewed out he at least got
a dirty look. Colonel Dunn called General Samford's office and they
brought in General Sory Smith of the Department of Defense, Office
of Public Information. General Smith appointed a civilian on the
Air Force Press Desk, Al Chop, to handle all inquiries...
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