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commented on Crisman “Fact: Fred Crisman is always
present; in The Shaver Mystery, in the flying saucer mystery…in the
Bay of Pigs, in the assassination of Diem ,in the John Kennedy case,
and quite often causing Ray Palmer all kinds of hell.” - Palmer, Ray
Forum, November, 1973 p.12
    On April 13, 1975, he married Mary Frances Borden, whom he had
met when he was a member of the Tacoma Library Board of Trustees.
He had been appointed to the board in 1970 by the outgoing mayor of
Tacoma, A.L. Slim Rasmussen, and a compatriot in the local political
wars. Fred Lee Crisman died at the age of fifty-six of kidney failure in
the Seattle Veterans Hospital on December 10, 1975.
The official
cause of death on his death certificate was Cardiac Arrhythmia and
Severe Coronary atherosclerosis.
    Notes: Crisman led a very covert secretive life with a pattern of
creating discrediting reports
at
Boeing, misleading statement,
and
running cover church businesses.
    Were psychiatric units convenient hideouts? It was common for CIA
operatives to check themselves into psychiatric hospitals to perhaps
hide for a period of time or “lay low.” Because of privacy of medical
records, they would have been perfect sanctuaries. It is interesting that
Beckham was established with a second hand shop perhaps similar to
Harold Dahl’s second hand shop.
An autopsy was performed on Crisman. Autopsies are not performed
normally unless there is a reason. This autopsy would have either been
prior requested by Crisman himself or his wife.
Of interest also is in the FBI reports on Crisman in Sept. of 1947 filed
by Guy Hottel SAC, the character of case is listed as “Atomic Energy
Act Applicant. Crisman had requested an application and the FBI was
more than interested in doing a complete security check on Crisman.

Raymond A. Palmer
    Ray
Palmer would continue
over
the
years
to
adamantly
question
the
military
on
the
Maury Island Sighting.
Palmer
perhaps
wanted
to
assert
his
innocence in the whole affair or
deflect
his involvement
in
the
death of Capt. Davidson and 1 st Lt. Brown.
    Raymond Palmer, the person who assigned Kenneth Arnold to the
case claimed that he had “Photostats of [Charles Dahl’s] hospital
record” Palmer, Raymond. The Truth about Ruppelt’s Book Flying Saucers,
December, 1958 p.37
Background
    The “Father of Science Fiction,” Raymond Palmer was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 1, 1910. A healthy baby he was even
featured as a healthy toddler in advertisements. In 1917 at the age of
seven, his foot got caught in the spokes of a wheel on a passing milk
truck and his spine was so severely damaged that it would affect him
the rest of his life.
    Palmer spent the next five years until age 13 in the hospital. He
educated himself.
A voracious reader, Raymond read as many as
fifteen volumes a day brought by the Milwaukee Library and became a
fan of Jules Verne, HG Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1930, he
edited the first fanzine, “The Comet.” In 1938, he became the editor
of Amazing Stories. In 1948, along with Curtis Fuller, he founded Fate
Magazine. Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of “flying saucers” and the
Maury Island incident were featured in the first issue of Fate Magazine.
In 1957, he started Flying Saucers Magazine, which also featured a
serialization of “Coming of The Saucers” and other articles on the
Maury Island UFO incident.
Kenneth Arnold first heard from Palmer on June 15, 1947. He was
interested
in
an
article
on
his
sighting of “flying discs.”
     
Ray Palmer in one of his last interviews in 1977, Guy Baskin.
    Kenneth Arnold would later write of his reaction...from Palmer when
he sent him a letter dated June 26, 1947
“At the time had I known who he was, I probably wouldn’t have
answered his letter... It wouldn’t have been because he wasn’t a sincere
or a good man, but later I found he was connected with the type of
publications that I not only never read but had always