Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 03 1131-03-p103

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58 Hillenkoetter or W.B. Smith decided that there was a need to have a copy of the authorization with a signature. Smith would almost certainly have been consulted with regard to any highly classified briefing for President Eisenhower, as noted above. As noted earlier, Truman's signature is similar but not identical to that on an October 1, 1947, memo from Truman to Bush. To some people, this proves that the whole thing is a fraud, especially when coupled with a very preliminary but wrong...