It is up to you and at your responsibility wh at you want to tell him
about the content of this letter.A lban Towers
Washington, D.C.My dear Neill:- I •
March 8, 1956I'm enclosing a photostat copy of a letter I received from
Ritter. The poor fellow is in the throes of his alleged friend Boadella.·
His remark with regard that birth is not a shock shows his abysmal
ignorance and charlatanism.
In spite of my 35 years of high-pitch psychiatric skill I'm still poor
in handling such minor things as the case of Ritter.
I do not write him directly since he is only waiting for a letter from
me to entangle me endlessly.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
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March 9, 1956Ruppelt's book arrived just as I took to my bed for a week
with bad influenza. So that it came at the right moment. Many thanks.
The guy is typical of the stiff-stomached breed, full of fears and doubts
and tied to an anchorage. Yet the book has one merit at least... it
does debunk some of the more phantastic claims made for saucers ...
The satisfying feature is that even Ruppelt has to admit that a per
centage can't be explained away. My own doubts about space ships arise
from the fact that there has never been any proof of a landing or any
wreckage, which means that another planet has reached the stage of
100% safety which is hard to believe. Another doubt is why most of
them over U.S.A.? Some say because of the atomic energy plants, but it
- An English university student who learned of Reich through Neill's writings.
To Reich's extreme indignation, he had taken it on himself to describe Reich's
work in a lecture about flying saucers.