AUTHOR CLYDE W. BURLESON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100050072-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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.!.'.i~ CM.CGU TRIBUNE
1 E 18 October 1977
AUTHOR CLYDE Sig. BURLESON told'
us, -"As far as the government is con-
cerned, the whole thing never happened. a
I received a letter recently from George
_ a . . ~,,.~ ha caid_ I
Bush ltormer ci:, uuc_w..?,
`I don't know what. you are talking
about.' But what Burleson is. talking about
in his book, "The Jennifer Project"
[Prentice-Hall], is the recovery of a
sunken Soviet submarine with the latest
nuclear data of the time. The recovery
was done by 'a specially built ship of
Howard Hughes' Summa Corp Every-.
one working on that project. was sworn
to secrecy.
Burleson-said over lunch in the Play-
boy Club, "I read a small . itera., in the
Los Angeles . Times and wrote my fic-
tionalized account..My agent said, 'Get
the real story.' I never wrote a fact.'
book. before, but I ,went to a computer
center and got almost a foot-locker of -
material about the Jennifer-Project, and
it didn't agree with CIA - accounts- I
talked with scientists, . engineers,- and
people in bars and received calls in the
middle of the night. There wa3 a lot-of .~
intrigue, but it shows what a private
citizen really can do. The information -i
the.U.S. received was invalunable at-the
time and gave us a position at the SALT.
'talks that would not have been available
otherwise." Burleson's next book will be
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