1948-49, institutional hardening.
Mantell to Project Grudge
The Mantell P-51 fatality. Air Defense Command's baseline. Project Grudge and the Vital Installations correspondence. Oak Ridge. The Cuneo, Jones, Winchell channel: proof that source proximity, not source content, triggered Bureau action.
9 cases in this thread / 4 headline reads
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1947-08 Peter Camerton Jones / Walter Winchell / Ernest Cuneo Los Angeles 1947 Sighting Routed to Hoover, July 1949 (High-Level Information Routing, Failed Location, Institutional Memory Loss) MEDIUM FBI - 02
1948-01-07 Captain Thomas F. Mantell P-51 Fatality of January 7 1948 (Dayton Journal-Herald Clipping with Last Radio Transmission Verbatim, Wright-Patterson 240+30 Statistics, and Project Sign 'Real Aircraft of Unconventional Design' Language) HEADLINE FBI - 03
1948-02-04 Air Defense Command Institutional Baseline Policy on Flying Disc Investigations, February 4, 1948 (Dismissal Threshold, Military Investigation Protocol, FBI Coordination) MEDIUM FBI - 04
1948-08-05 Mrs. Madeline Gwynne Merchant Patriotic Civilian Report / Eastern Air Lines Chiles-Whitted Sighting Routed to Director, August 1948 (Field-Office Dismissal Mechanism, Credibility Filtering, Institutional Non-Escalation) MEDIUM FBI - 05
1948-12-28 Lonnie Noack Physical-Object Examination, 30 Miles East of Lone Pine California, December 1948 (SAC Houston Joint AAF Interview) MEDIUM FBI - 06 1948-1950 DOW-UAP-D017 — The Sandia Base Green Fireball File: New Mexico Aerial Phenomena, 1948-1950 HEADLINE PURSUE
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1949-01-10 Oak Ridge Flying Saucers, Gasser Atomic-Propulsion Interview, AEC Photograph-Suppression Operation, and the Bureau Policy Reversal of March 1949 HEADLINE FBI - 08
1949-01-31 The Project Grudge Cluster: Vital Installations, Lincoln La Paz Green Fireballs, Camp Hood–Killeen Base Sightings, the Walter Winchell Affair, and the May 1949 USAF Recovery Denial (December 1948 – May 1949) HEADLINE FBI - 09 1949-07-XX Ernest Cuneo / Walter Winchell / 'Jones' Follow-up Correspondence (1949): The Bureau Says Yes This Time MEDIUM FBI