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with
submachine guns. I have two 9" scars on my left arm that came from
wounds given me in the cave when I was 50 feet from a moving
object of any kind and in perfect silence. The muscles were nearly
ripped out. How? I don't know. My friend has a hole the size of a
dime in his right bicep. It was seared inside. How we don't know.
But we both believe we know more about the Shaver Mystery than
any other pair.
You can imagine my fright when I picked up my first copy of
Amazing Stories and see you splashing words about the subject.
Do not print our names, we are not cowards, but we are not crazy.
Palmer would later reveal this the author as Fred Lee Crisman
Background
Crisman was born on July 22, 1919, He moved with his family to
Vale, Oregon, in 1933 where his father was the proprietor of a hotel.
He graduated from Vale Union High School in 1939 and attended
Eastern Oregon College in LaGrande, Oregon, for a short time during
the 1939-1940 school year before leaving to go to work for the Union
Pacific Railroad as a brakeman. In 1942, Crisman joined the military.
He was a graduate of Williamette University with degrees in political
science, history, and education and psychology -“Crisman Native Tacoman,”
Tacoma News Tribune, Dec 16, 1975
In 1942, in Ontario, Ore., he married Filomena Veristain just before he
was sent to the Pacific Theater as a fighter pilot in the US Army Air
Corp. Later that year, Filomena gave birth to a daughter, Rita Louise
Crisman who was killed in a car accident in 1964.
In 1955, Filomena
gave birth to a son, Fred Lee Crisman Jr.
According to political ads, he enlisted into army service on May 26,
1942 and he flew 211 combat missions, was wounded twice, and was
shot down twice. He separated from the Army Air Force on February
19, 1946 and went to work for the State Department of Veterans
Affairs.
In Crisman’s own words, in his book “Murder of
a
City…
Tacoma” he would state: “in 1946-1947, as a recently released fighter
pilot, I had been appointed a Special Investigator and assigned to a
now defunct
department
of
the state
government, The
State
Department of Veteran Affairs. My job – take a look at the variety of
rackets, con jobs and out right cheating of newly discharged veterans
from our Washington located camps of the armed forces.
My job
brought me into contact with many of the local men and most of the
political leaders of the day.”
Crisman would also relate he had a close
working relationship with most of the police officers of Tacoma and
Seattle and most of the judges and a great many lawyers.
It is highly likely that Crisman met Harold Dahl at this time and
established what would appear to be a mutually beneficial relationship
that often seemed strained.
According to an FBI report on Crisman of September 13, 1947 after
working for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs up until March 31,
1947, he “went to work for Harold Dahl piloting Dahl’s personal
plane.”
Note: This is the only reference we have seen that Dahl owned a
personal plane.
Crisman worked for the State Veterans Rehabilitation Council from
March
20, 1946
to
March
31, 1947
handling Veteran
problems
“Particularly those in trouble with the law.” Crisman was terminated
following a reduction in force and is stated to have then worked for
Harold Dahl. An unknown person interviewed by the FBI stated they
thought Dahl “was rumored to be a black market operative.”
Crisman told an informant that he had developed an idea for a log
patrol
and beach
patrol, which
would
involve the recovery of
unmarked logs from Puget Sound and the patrolling of summer beach
cottages for private owners.
Crisman said that Dahl stole this idea
from him.
A few days after the Kelso crash Crisman was ordered by the Army to
Alaska. There is no evidence of Crisman actually going. A statement
given to the FBI on August 8th led the Fourth Air Force headquarters
to revoke his Air Force Reserve Commission as “undesirable
submachine guns. I have two 9" scars on my left arm that came from
wounds given me in the cave when I was 50 feet from a moving
object of any kind and in perfect silence. The muscles were nearly
ripped out. How? I don't know. My friend has a hole the size of a
dime in his right bicep. It was seared inside. How we don't know.
But we both believe we know more about the Shaver Mystery than
any other pair.
You can imagine my fright when I picked up my first copy of
Amazing Stories and see you splashing words about the subject.
Do not print our names, we are not cowards, but we are not crazy.
Palmer would later reveal this the author as Fred Lee Crisman
Background
Crisman was born on July 22, 1919, He moved with his family to
Vale, Oregon, in 1933 where his father was the proprietor of a hotel.
He graduated from Vale Union High School in 1939 and attended
Eastern Oregon College in LaGrande, Oregon, for a short time during
the 1939-1940 school year before leaving to go to work for the Union
Pacific Railroad as a brakeman. In 1942, Crisman joined the military.
He was a graduate of Williamette University with degrees in political
science, history, and education and psychology -“Crisman Native Tacoman,”
Tacoma News Tribune, Dec 16, 1975
In 1942, in Ontario, Ore., he married Filomena Veristain just before he
was sent to the Pacific Theater as a fighter pilot in the US Army Air
Corp. Later that year, Filomena gave birth to a daughter, Rita Louise
Crisman who was killed in a car accident in 1964.
In 1955, Filomena
gave birth to a son, Fred Lee Crisman Jr.
According to political ads, he enlisted into army service on May 26,
1942 and he flew 211 combat missions, was wounded twice, and was
shot down twice. He separated from the Army Air Force on February
19, 1946 and went to work for the State Department of Veterans
Affairs.
In Crisman’s own words, in his book “Murder of
a
City…
Tacoma” he would state: “in 1946-1947, as a recently released fighter
pilot, I had been appointed a Special Investigator and assigned to a
now defunct
department
of
the state
government, The
State
Department of Veteran Affairs. My job – take a look at the variety of
rackets, con jobs and out right cheating of newly discharged veterans
from our Washington located camps of the armed forces.
My job
brought me into contact with many of the local men and most of the
political leaders of the day.”
Crisman would also relate he had a close
working relationship with most of the police officers of Tacoma and
Seattle and most of the judges and a great many lawyers.
It is highly likely that Crisman met Harold Dahl at this time and
established what would appear to be a mutually beneficial relationship
that often seemed strained.
According to an FBI report on Crisman of September 13, 1947 after
working for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs up until March 31,
1947, he “went to work for Harold Dahl piloting Dahl’s personal
plane.”
Note: This is the only reference we have seen that Dahl owned a
personal plane.
Crisman worked for the State Veterans Rehabilitation Council from
March
20, 1946
to
March
31, 1947
handling Veteran
problems
“Particularly those in trouble with the law.” Crisman was terminated
following a reduction in force and is stated to have then worked for
Harold Dahl. An unknown person interviewed by the FBI stated they
thought Dahl “was rumored to be a black market operative.”
Crisman told an informant that he had developed an idea for a log
patrol
and beach
patrol, which
would
involve the recovery of
unmarked logs from Puget Sound and the patrolling of summer beach
cottages for private owners.
Crisman said that Dahl stole this idea
from him.
A few days after the Kelso crash Crisman was ordered by the Army to
Alaska. There is no evidence of Crisman actually going. A statement
given to the FBI on August 8th led the Fourth Air Force headquarters
to revoke his Air Force Reserve Commission as “undesirable
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