AMELIA EARHART'S SECRET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200480009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 11, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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-ad. owland Island,' a tiny landfall Lindy."
ip be. the Western Pacific Marianas, . The dol fuI fate of a captured
story ith precautions or sa ety and spy is th your country can co
.dde resident Rooseve t It was 2 500 that the two were executed
e aria I gre -iCt will owland in the neigghborhood of died of ctsentery, though this
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first woman to .fy t e Atlantic itement. In her Lockheed lec- n ov , finally VOmU1g
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solo Pad. dar g-of this country ra the adventure began~Ma 20, down on 111 Atoll in the south
eastern arch
and'tha, v~orl suffered the fate 937, and In late June she and alls, where they
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~lia Earhart's
TH1+'S&'Oi4 ~AMELIA Rpocbal night wen s factory adio corrmitpleatlon
Fred Goerner. arhart flew the Atlantic alone with the plane, Indicating,
32$ pages. l ustrated. Dou- 1928 and received the Distin- the flyer were lost and short o
bled . $5.8 ; uished Flying Medall at a joint fuel. No ing more was heard.
IT' seems iricre le,- but for 30 ession of"Congress. There was and fQr he ,next 30 .,days the'
years, or ever since her mys- White House dinner and largest nd most. eitpensivi~
te;ftlut sarance in the oreign honors galore. In 1931 search history was condp te;i
iq -f, 9A;_a,,'round-the- ohe mat ted publis er George. P. over 262, square miles off' the
world .light in July, 1937, the tram, a prom e de luxe, Pacific cean. What actually
United States C,tovernment has nd`when news got about of the
4 _,happene was that Each cnowp,what happened to Amelia roposed globe -encircling flight art Ad
en
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Earhait. The famed aviatrix, here was a fever of public ex- Noonan d changed course
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Japanese In those pre-Pearl Har- uinea and were ready for the ana late conveyed to Saipan,
bor days of turmoil and sus- ng over - water Pacific seg- a milita headquarters island'
picfoh, and a tight lipped tent. near Gua in the Carolines. The
' - official diet was -lost at
raaseelttrwl Ity 1 s ept_the fact con- 3odies Recovered In 1944 sea," a 1 for months the
avor sinra
those in a~~ in ds, mandated to Japan and buried in aipan, and the bodies
nture to come in 1941. We the Ame can invasion. Japan
c1et the facts which -
ce to the memory o 4 fiat was going gh in tle-se Ioca- ' affair, a hough documentary
lert moves. i articularly were .n voivea un overed by Mr. Goer-
trical atmosphere of a interested in Japanese Truk, ner appeal to be conclusive.
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ms~n~of us Aviation wstll - ith its airfields and repair an tin$ 1 ate
ang wand just made eks. spotty atis ^1960, wher a na i enwthe omanl v
li
er li had ust made There was s t and ups.
aaiu uieL e naa seen the nyers
as prisone In Saipan. He made'
four trips o Guam and Saipan
in the ne five years and his
experien form an exciting
tale of de ' g-do and a remark-
able perse erance. But in Wash-
Ington an elsewhere In the
country found a wall of
silence d a display of
shoulder - shrugging that he
couldn't b ak down even with
the help f the late Admiral
Nimitz.
Some r ponsibillty goes to
those in bi places too, it would
seem, and general air of con-
spiracy s to have hovered
over the S to Department, the
Navy, the Marine Corps, the
Central telligence Agency
(Goerner's discovery of a Na-
tionalist C 'nese spy school on
Saipan wa a factor), and as-
sorted oth centers of Federal
power.
It is a pu ling hash of govern-
mental poi y and method, and
not too ha y a disclosure. Mr.
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