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L-48a FEDERAL BUREAU OF wars : LABORATORY Date i]__1947 . Harbo 7659 . Long 7639 . Parsons 7639 . Baughman Tips . Conrad 7140 je ___Mr. Downing 7630 Ay ___Mr. Sizoo 7601 Vy ___ Miss Frawley 76359 ___ Miss Keough f § 1639% ____ Miss Mills y 763hy ___ADMINISTRATIVR Floo PERSONNBL RE 6655 ; ASE NE eh Ee, EE SU PS BS tom CRYPTANALYSIS SECON ROOM 7630

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__Mr. _Mr. Baumgardner __Mr. __Mr. _Mr. Brown ND-6 SECURITY DIVISION - FBI INTERNAL SECURI TY SECTION STRICKLAND DeFORD SUPERVISORS Ackerman __Mr. Howe __Mr. Jennings Blakesley _Mr . Jones Bly __Mr. McAndrews __Mr . Meehan _Mr . Casper __Mr. Milnes __Mr . Collier _Mr . Power s __Mr. Costello _Mr. Ranst ad __Mr. Donohue __Mr. Smith __Mr. Fletcher __Mr. Turner _Mr . Harvey _Mr. Whitson __Mr . Hayden _Mr. Winterrowd --.Mr . _MI SS ________ _ __.RECORDS SECTION __ROOM____ ____ _ __Send file __Mrs. Dorset, 1736 __Bring file up- to-date _Mrs. Walch, 1736 __Flace on Record __Miss Arnold, 1742 __Fl ace on Record and __Miss Niedjelski, 1649 Retu rn __Typists, 1641 __Indicate index reference __correct _...Please call me __Redate __Please see me ---Note and return , 'f7 Q@ , _.. -R"OOM-..-'/ -~¢w:;;:a&.._ _ _

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COUNTY IRRITANT lrom our Mail lox EE::E::::r::::: - - =······-···-+i±±ei ulling for Decoders a~11mo1e About nine at night 011 July -Ith I recei,ed the follow­ Ing shortwa,e me,,:,age in code, origin unknown. I kept listening, onct ahoul an hour later the mes­ sage wa~ repeated letter for letter. I can't figure out what It means, but lWl'e It ls; DITEH 1-"0 NUHMA SOESNENN TWON I.ATWA !.IOTCIA WRA Rl'SPIDCXIT DREOR LASOR STEYMS SO STEN YLI-WG si.ro.s llAN WLIL EST UP WI.Olm DREOR NERUO TIR­ M.\NAS TEAL HIST ARYE. -Radio Ham. (Nt-ilher ran we. but we hope lt'a legal. Ed.)

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.;-:q 21, l 7 ECORDED ~,;; - ;- _; F,tJ~- &?IY .~~. A. o. Snrbhnis /' [endereço omitido] fticks-villo, Long Iclnnd , 'ar, York Dcnr Ura. Sarba."li.s, I wish to a.c~·noulodge receipt of your lotter and anclotl:iro dated July 10, 1947. I have i.notructed tho Special A03nt in ~e of our .cm York OJ"tice t.o havo a Spocinl A.cent oall. t:Pon you tor- tho purponc of' obtaininc 1\J~bor infornation in camcct.ion v!.th :tb!s r-.attor . ?oar intcreat. in calling tbis info:rcntion to r!f1 att ti on io inaood npprecintad . Sincerely- youro, John Roovor Director cc - Novr York (With ~ • There is no idcntii'iablo j.n.fomation in the .files ·or't~e B.ircau concerning the m-it er of this letter . Tho docoding of the oeasage on the nC1f8Pa,cr c~lp;;ing w,s r2fcrrcd to the Laborator-.r , who subsequ8Iltly advised that the writer's decodinc; was substantially correct . Thero is beinG set forth bol0':7 tho ro:ru.l.ts or tho Laboratory's decoclinc: "TIRED OF 1-.tUW.ll NOJ:SErSE l":01-Pr AUA!T ATOl:.ITC l'lAR DISRUFTI m ORDER SOLAR SYSTEM 5':) s:NT FLYII:G DISl'S AlID iTILL SCT UP WORLD ORDER trnmn ~RTIA'l'S UTE Tll1S YEA~. <'"'1 ~- ~ e.....

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f .... •ibbl?ral ilur.eau nf lnu1?sti9ation Unifl?h ~uit.l?s i11?purtm1?nt of Yust icl? New York, N. Y. IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO F ILE N O .----- - September 4, 1947 Directo r, FBI Attention : FBI Laboratory Re : Mrs. A. ~IS, Informant Dear Sir: Reference is made to Bureau lette ted July 21, addressed to Mrs. A. G. SARBANIS, [endereço omitido], HioksVl. sland, New York, a copy of which was sent to the New York Office . Yrs . SARBANIS was interviewed by Special Agent William A. Johnson on August 12, 194?, at which time she advised that this coded message had appeared in "Newsday," the local newspaper of Nassau and Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. She stated that the message had appeared in the "County Irritant, 11 a feature of this paper, and had been signed "Radio Ham." ~(r. JACK ALTSCHUL, City Editor of 11Newsday," Hempstead, New York, was interviewed and advised that this article had been sent to the newspaper by letter which was signed "Radio Ham," and explained that he had no way of determining the identity of the writer . Mr. ALTSCHUL stated that it was his opinion that the code had been made up by some local 11 screwball" who had been affected by all o,Yhe newspaper publicity that had been give n at that time to the story abou~ fly:i.ng discs . There is enclosed an article appearing in the July 12th issue of "Newsdayl' concerning this coded message , which might be of interest in this matter . Unless advised to the contrary, no furtaer effort is being made to establish the identity of the person who signed himself "Radio Ham." ..

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I• ? / J.i/'/7 &,,~ " . COUNTy' \!IRRITANT" lrom our Mail lox Coming His Way Merrick-Out all day yesterday looking for a house to rent, but no luck. I yot so disgusted I e nded up in a tavern and got lit. When I got home and went in the house I SAW FLYING SAUCERS IN AIR! -No Foolin . Garbles Westbury - B,. 11 more Radio Ham's message seems to be from some gentleman occupying an Olympian height. As with many of these erudite souls, the sender can ­ not resist including a few "garbles" in his code. Or is our Ham guilty? Here is your message: TffiED OF ~ H U M A N NONSENSE WONT AWAIT ATOMIC WAR DISTURB· JNG SOLAR SYSTEM SO SENT FLYING DISKS AND WILL SET UP WORLD UNDER MARTIANS LATE THIS YEAR. - Simple transposition. Hope all your readers are appropriately warned. -Stephen M. Schuster. (Other ungarblers got "outlaw" ( ATLAW) instea d of "await ," • isrupting" instea d of "disturb• I g." Miss Rita Flood of *t ashington expects the wo ld ENCLOSURE der to be set up under " • i.ter." Is Radio Ham satisfie d Erl:) BECOM.lilf)

STANDAf!-0 FORM NO. 64 - • •Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ,,, Mr. J. P. Coy DATE:{ TO 9/17/47 Mr. Tolson llr. E. A. Tam_\ FROM W. v. Cl eve land Mr. CleggMr. Glav1-n -- llr. =--~---_-_ SUBJECT: Mrs . A . d rbanis ::: ~~;~~Is__ 11r. 1'racy-­ Informant llr. carso-n -- Mr. Egan._-_-_-_-_ Mr. Gurnea__ ::: ::hrbo-t- You will recall that a letter was received from the Ml". PeM-,ng=t=on­ llr. Qu!nn Tam­ above captioned individual dated July 10, 19b7, in which she Tele. Room - Mr. Neas•-­ inclosed a newspaper clipping signed "Radio Ham." This news ­ M!ss Ho~ M188Gan<ly- paper clipping contained a coded message which Mrs. Sarbanis decoded. The FBI Laboratory checked Afrs . Sarbanis' decoding of this message and advised that it was substantially correct. The Labocatory ' s decvding of the message is being set forth below: "TIRED OF HUMAN NONSENSE i'/ONT AWAIT A'f£!,MIC WAR DISRUPTING ORDER SOLAR SYSTEM SO SENT"7'LYI NG DISKS AND WILL SET UP WORLD ORDER UNDER MARTIANS LATE THIS YEAR.,, The New York OJ/ice was asked to interview Mrs . Sarbanis to determine from what newspaper the clipping in question was obtained . They were further instructed to contact this newspaper in 9n effort to ascertain the identity of the p er son who sent in the coded message , in order that the person might be interviewed for information a? ncerning the alleged receipt of the coded messag e. By let te r dated September 4, 1947, the New York Office advised that they had ascertained from Mrs . Sarbanis that the coded • message had appeared in 11Newsday , " the local newspaper of Nassau and Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. The City Editor of this news ­ paper stated that the original had been signed only "Radio Ham" and knew of no way of dete rmining the identity of the write r. It was the City Editor 's opinion that the code had been made up by some local "screwb all" who had been affected by all of the newspaper publicity that had been given to stories concerning ''flying discs ." The FBI Laboratory has now advised that the FCC maintains their amateur records by a geogra p hical breakdown as well as by call l etters and that the Laboratory could possibly get the names of all amateurs in the Bellmore , Long Island , New York Section in the event it is desired that another attemit be made to identify the person who sent this coded message to the 'News~ay . t, ;_ _ [ ... .1. " rl RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended th . o further action be taken in connection with this mat t e r in view j the opinion ~xp~essed by the City Edi tor of the "Newsday " that the 1 ette~ ' rebe i\,-ed' " by hf m si gned 11"Radio Ham" was from some local ".screwba t . f" ~~~:;~•- 9 -17,6 ~ ~~~ ~

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