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Note: For those who searched "Amelia Earhart" on the internet and ended up here,
be sure to visit the "Home" and "Introduction" page links to the left for additional information. This
page is a sub-link of the overall Forensic Analysis website, "Irene-Amelia.com" Below: Amelia Earhart was a recognized pacifist. She abhorred the ideas of war, violence, and prejudice.
Her persona exemplified what a 'world humanitarian' represented in the public eye. She was also deeply spiritual, an artistic thinker, and she commanded
a supreme intellectual quality. Not in line with some people's thinking, she really was an excellent pilot. True, beyond her
ability to command a variety of fixed wing aircraft she also contributed to the development of the modern helicopter, after
demonstrating great flying prowess with the Pitcairn Autogiro. Apolitical, she spoke several languages and liked oriental
cultures to include the social and religious philosophies of China and Japan. Never was she a war time favor seeker though,
yet this is still misconstrued today. Amelia avoided the unforgiving aspect of addressing the use of airplanes in wars too,
something famous pilots were often subjected to do. And she always had a hard time with limelight living and married life,
accentuating a growing desire for privacy she had at the time of her storied 'disappearance.' When reading the following information,
please bear these things in mind.
"The admiral wanted me to say to
you he thinks you should continue your investigation, and I want to add to that, don't you ever give up. You're onto something
that will stagger your imagination." Spoken by U. S. Naval Commander John Pillsbury in 1962. He was intimating his opinion and that of U. S. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz to Fred Goerner, concerning
Goerner's Amelia Earhart disappearance investigation.
From: The Search for Amelia Earhart
by Fred Goerner, Doubleday Books, 1966. Another Admiral Chester Nimitz quote from the same book: "Earhart and her navigator did go down in the Marshalls and were picked up by the Japanese." In a 1966 letter to Amelia's survived sister Muriel Morrissey, Fred Goerner also mentioned how Admiral Nimitz disclosed
withheld knowledge to him that it was "known and documented in Washington"
how Amelia Earhart continued to exist under the auspice of Japan after she was reported 'missing' in 1937. NOTE: Just as former India Nationalist leader, Subhas Chandra Bose was said to have died in a plane crash at sea while
fleeing Japan after VJ Day--so too had former OSS Lieutenant James Hannon offered how he understood a survived Amelia
Earhart may have died in a liberation plane crash just after VJ Day. Such could have been the misleading intelligence drift
Nimitz was also aware of, meant to bring Earhart's untold ordeal to a final closure for all but a select few. So it may be
no irony how in the years following WWII, many people in India to include Gandhi himself, expressed an awareness of how Chandra
Bose actually made it back to India and lived there after taking a new name. It can also be considered, had Nimitz been aware of Amelia Earhart's survival as a different person in the U. S., he would not have offered the
kind of assistance he did to Fred Goerner. Here, consider this Admiral Nimitz quote: "I don't understand
why they (the U. S. Government) still won't let people know what happened." Admiral Chester Nimitz to CBS Radio Journalist Fred Goerner, from a tape recorded (1965) quote
about the Earhart controversy.
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 "All day I've been
thinking about Amelia Earhart." "I do like her and I'll miss seeing her..." "Life might not have held
such a happy future for her." The words of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a friend and confidante
of Amelia's, found in a letter she wrote to her daughter the day Amelia was reported missing.
Of the
year-long period before Amelia vanished Jackie Cochran wrote "I was closer to Amelia than anyone else, even her husband,
George Putnam." From Jackie Cochran's 1987 autobiography by Maryann Bucknum Brinley. In her earlier 1954 book Cochran downplayed
her visit to the Dai Ichi building in Japan right after VJ Day, and the odd finding of "several
files on Amelia Earhart" there. Ms. Cochran was also involved in the implication for the arrest of Iva Toguri
while in Japan, (Toguri was incorrectly identified as Tokyo Rose) who was finally pardoned by President Ford in 1975. Recall
in 1949 Amelia's mother, Amy Otis Earhart attended Iva Toguri's trial, and soon afterward she told the New York Times she
knew Amelia had ended up in Japan's care, contradicting the previous reports of her daughter having simply 'disappeared.'
NOTE: Jackie Cochran, who was the first woman pilot to break the
sound barrier was also the first American woman to enter Japan after VJ Day. She was green-lighted over there by way of Guam
and the Philippines with red carpet treatment, received by top military brass and military Vicar General, Archbishop
Francis Spellman, (who was later Cardinalized by the Catholic Church) and she later claimed to have retrieved "several files on Amelia Earhart" from the Dai-Ichi building while she was in Tokyo.
She also met with Pope Pius XII in Rome on her way home, and was credited eight years later for helping to get Dwight
David Eisenhower elected as President. Eisenhower would later have his own guest quarters at the Floyd Odlum, Jackie
Cochran ranch near Palm Springs, California where he enjoyed playing golf during his reitrement. No coincidence, in 1991 Monsignor
James Francis Kelley who had known Pius XII, Francis Cardinal Spellman, and the Gervais-Irene quite well, admitted he had
been part of the alliance with Jackie Cochran that ultimately secured Amelia's post war era identity switch to 'Irene
Craigmile.' Cochran, when later pressed about the 'Amelia files' she claimed to have found in Tokyo at the end of the
war, tried to dismiss them as 'just some old newspaper clippings.' But in the context of her 1954 book The Stars at Noon
said 'Earhart files' were mentioned separately by her. The reference appeared in her book this way:
"I did, however, find numerous clippings and photographs about Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Doolittle and other
American pilots, including myself. There were several files on Amelia Earhart."
COMBINE the above info with the curious 1972 State Department slip-up
involving information forwarded to famous Earhart investigator, Joe Gervais. It was not made public until 1997 by Brassey's
of Washington DC and London, and then only in a downplayed manner with important facts misconstrued. Yet the unveiled 'leak'
was that of a 1970s State Department employee, one Arthur Dewayne Gibson of Verdunville, West Virginia. Mr. Gibson had read
the 1966 Goerner book and the 1970 Klaas book, both of which were inspired by the Amelia Earhart investigations of Paul Briand,
Joe Gervais, and Bob Dinger. Arthur Gibson decided to reach out to Gervais after quietly doing 'some State Department digging'
among WWII 'still classified' material. He and Joe Gervais soon began a phone and letter writing relationship, with Arthur
Gibson sharing what he'd learned with Joe Gervais after he was assured confidentiality. Their communications would direct
Joe Gervais to contact the Japanese immigration department in Tokyo. Reason being; Arthur Gibson indicated how an odd Nipponese naturalization request made by Earhart dated 8/19/39 was included in a
file labeled this way: "Special War Problems; Earhart, Amelia."
The
following is the exact worded query from the letter written by Joe Gervais on June 11, 1975 to the Nipponese
Department of Immigration and Naturalization, Tokyo, Japan:
"Dear Sir,
Can you inform me who would be authorized to obtain information from the record
of a naturalized citizen of Japan. All I wish to know is the precise date Mrs. G.P. Putnam became a citizen of Japan,
probably sometime between July and September of 1939 after completing the required twenty-four months residence in the Nipponese
Imperial Islands of the Pacific."
The following is the
complete July 3, 1975 reply from Japan's Naturalized citizens division to Gervais. The sender was labeled Fifth
Division Civil Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Tokyo Japan:
"Sir,
This is to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of inquiry dated June 11, asking us whether Irene Craigmile or Mrs. G. P. Putnam was naturalized to Japan. It
is to our deep regret however, that we are not in a position to answer any inquiry as to whether a certain person was naturalized
to Japan, as a general rule, the records of naturalized persons being closed to the public."
NOTE: Gervais did not include the name "Irene Craigmile"
in his query, yet somehow it all but magically
appeared in the reply sent to him from Tokyo. Again, Joe Gervais based his request on the State Department 'leak' previously
afforded him by State Department employee Arthur DeWayne Gibson. As for the date of 8/19/39, Germany's invasion of Poland
did not occur until a short time after that, and of course Pearl Harbor would not happen for another two years. (NOTE: BELOW
THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS SEE TRANSCRIBED EXCERPTS FROM ONE OF ARTHUR GIBSON'S LETTERS TO JOE GERVAIS.)
Another curious
'find' came from Machine Gunner Robert E. Wallack of 'D' Company, 29th Marines during his WWII experience. As Part
of the U. S. occupation of Saipan in 1944, Wallack and his fellow Marines blew open a safe they had found in a bombed
out Japanese building. He described what happened afterward in this manner: "After the smoke cleared I grabbed a brown
leather attache' case with a large handle and a flip lock. The contents were official looking papers all concerning Amelia
Earhart; maps, permits, and reports apparently pertaining to her around the world flight. I wanted to retain this as a souvenir,
but my Marine buddies insisted that it may be important and should be turned in. I went down to the beach where I encountered
a Naval officer and told of my discovery. He gave me a receipt for the material and said that it would be returned to me if
it were not important. I have never seen the material since." From Randall Brink's book, Lost Star; The Search for
Amelia Earhart, W.W. Norton, 1994. "Is there
any way of ascertaining what the Japanese are actually doing, especially as regards a real search of the eastern fringe of
the Marshall Islands? That is one of the most fruitful possible locations for wreckage." 7/31/37 excerpt
from George Putnam letter to the White House thanking FDR for search efforts. The thought would have never occurred to
Putnam that his business partner/wife could have been trying to exit her public life... while Japan, whose culture
Earhart adored and who the U. S. would still be at peace with for another four years, might have played a part in
some arrangement to help her do such a thing(?) It's a stretch to some, but recall how Amelia Earhart, just like Babe Ruth was
very much loved in Japan in the 1930s.
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"She
stated she was turning north and they continued to hear her at intervals, her signals becoming fainter each time received."
Col H.H.C. Richards U.S. 02 Intelligence memo, 11/1/38"She definitely came to
the Marshall Islands," said Alfred Capelle. "I believe she came for some particular purpose - perhaps to try out
some kind of equipment for the military." United
Nations Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Alfred Capelle, Associated Press interview with Ron Staton;
May 20, 2002. (White House
transcript) "This letter that Mrs. Roosevelt wrote me about trying to get the report on Amelia Earhart... " "If
we're going to release this, (the report) it's just going to smear the whole reputation of Amelia Earhart..." "I
hope I've just got to never make it public." Cabinet Member & Secretary of the Treasury,
Henry P. Morgenthau Jr. responds to a request for 1937 Earhart loss information, made on behalf of Eleanor Roosevelt by her
secretary, Malvina Scheider on 5/13/1938. Mr. Morgenthau, who oversaw FDR's secret service division also oddly referenced
Amelia Earhart as having "disregarded all orders" before she supposedly 'vanished.' The inference of
'what happened' as well played off the rumor of Earhart and Noonan being intercepted by Japan as they entered its controlled
air space. Said notion was later considered by ardent researchers to have been a 'paper tiger ruse.' A few felt more inclined
to believe Amelia had free-willed her own choice. She had specified it was her 'last flight' after all, and mentioned to at
least one acquaintance she 'wasn't coming back.' (Word was both her career and marriage had gotten the best of her.)
As well, and though it may seem a stretch to some, one might also consider how the long held rumor of a pre-fame out
of wedlock child Amelia had in 1924, (who she managed to surreptitiously remain in touch with through the family that took
the child in after Amelia became famous in 1928) may have had something to do with Amelia Earhart's enigmatic personna and
her 'perpetually moving' existence during her nine fame years. (A run that ended just shy of her fortieth birthday.) Noticed
was her curious and very intense privacy, her steadfast unpredictability, and her odd decision making processes that would
eventually become geared, perhaps, towards such a described 'public-life exit.' A fantastic notion to be sure, then again,
the Gervais-Irene story is fantastic. Also recall, Amelia never really sought
fame. Although she was a rare woman pilot, she was a mere Social Worker in charge of children ranging from toddlers to teens,
when in 1928 she received a phone call at work. George Palmer Putnam was on the line, asking her to replace the woman scheduled
to become the first female passenger to fly in an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia accepted and was approved for
the flight. Then just a few months later, having successfully accomplished the feat she was greeted by a ticker-tape parade
in New York upon her return to the United States. She embraced her newfound world fame, although as 'just a passenger' she
remarked how she did something "comparable to what a sack of potatoes could have done." Ultimately though, in a
two out of three way an old saying about 'greatness' could be applied to Amelia Earhart's person: "Some people are born
into greatness, some people achieve greatness, and some people have greatness thrust upon them." By the end of her flying
career in Amelia's case, the latter two 'greatness' mentions were applied in reverse order; for in 1928 she had greatness
thrust upon her first, before she more than certifiably achieved it four years later, by becoming the first woman to solo
a plane across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. In 1990, after being pressured by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii to do so, then U. S. Secretary of State James Baker's
office confirmed the existence of a previously classified file from the World War Two era labled: "Special War Problems; Earhart, Amelia." It declined however, to elaborate on why the file ever existed,
or on the full nature of its contents.
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From a 1972 letter sent by U. S. State Department employee Arthur DeWayne Gibson of Verdunville, West Virginia
to Joe Gervais of Las Vegas, Nevada: "Enclosed are two things
I wish you would check. I only get a good possible. I took it to a police station in Charleston and further had
two artists sketch each. (Another picture of her.) I believe you have access to more technical skill. If you think it is a
good make will you phone me? I ask that you return it soon. After a short time, after I get it back you may use it. I must
replace it.
Oh yes the file date is September 7, 1946.
Refers to wives of officers and top government officials (Japan.) It was closed hence to what it pertained I have no idea.
Also it was the last of a strip of eight photos. (She was the only one American.) (Mrs. Putnam.)" "I believe the FBI files of 5th column agents would help you here. These files are closed to me. I was only able to get a hint of their contents
& as nothing seemed at the time to bear on what I was doing I never pressed the matter. I felt files would be a better avenue of search at this late
date. Even commercial and religious files. I found in State Department files where '"Mrs. Putnam wishes the U. S.
Government to henceforth consider her a National of the Nipponese Imperial Islands.'" It was only a two line sentence
and seemed to have a relationship to the rest, (request dated August 19, 1939.)" [NOTE: August of 1939 was still prior
to Germany's invasion of Poland.] The date of
this letter was 4/5/72. Several phone call and letter exchanges between Joe Gervais and Arthur Dewayne Gibson took place.
Their exchanges eventually convinced Gervais to write to Japan's Immigration department in Tokyo. Another letter
from Mr. Gibson mentioned "Zero wind tunnel tests" the file discribed Amelia was a part of in Japan in "1938"
with Jiro Hirakoshi. (NOTE: 1938 was also prior to WWII.) Mr. Hirakoshi was a
known Japanese plane designer who Amelia, a known 'pacifist' had acquainted on Long Island where he had worked at the
Garden City plane factory there until 1935. (Mr. Hirakoshi returned to Japan and was later given much credit for the development of the Zero.)
Gibson also included
how the State Department 'Special War Problems' material described how Amelia could speak Japanese fluently, and in July
of 1939 she had test flown a 'OO' deck fighter at Kayunmayharu. (Four paragraphs down, consider the 2002 statement made by Marshall
Islands United Nations Ambassador, Alfred Capelle who had remained unaware of the
A. D. Gibson 'leaked' information.) Arthur DeWayne Gibson also mentioned the file contained a picture of Amelia
standing next to a twin engine 'Randy,' a Japanese plane never put into mass production. And he included as well, how the
file was labeled, "Special War Problems; Earhart, Amelia." Perhaps
it is no irony then, how years later in the mid 1980s another State Department employee by the name of Patricia
Morton would also on her own time, stumble upon a recently declassified file labeled "Special War Problems; Earhart, Amelia." (Something the U.S. Department of legislative matters actually
confirmed later after being queried about it by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.) (Ms. Morton's find was also featured
in a 1990 NBC Amelia Earhart mystery TV Special.) The file Patricia Morton located included the fabled "Camp liberated;
all well. volumes to tell. love to mother (*)" unsigned telegram. Researchers Laurie McGlaughlin and Ron Bright
suggested the telegram's author could have been one Ahmad Kamal who had sent it from the Weihsien, China 'Japanese internment camp for allied civilians' to George Putnam (Amelia's '1930s' husband) right after VJ Day. This could be true
as Kamal had been interned at Weihsien and he was a friend of Putnam's. Still, Laurie McGlaughlin's and Ron Bright's
determination remained void of a reason for the file's label; "Earhart, Amelia; Special War Problems." Not
to mention, a former OSS Lieutenant by the name of James "Jess" Hannon had participated in the liberation of the
Weihsien camp, and he later insisted a 'sickly' Amelia Earhart ended up privately sequestered there in special quarters, away
from the other internees. He also described a rumor suggesting how the plane liberating Amelia after VJ Day crashed, killing
all on board. Later, after digesting the 1960s & 1970s investigative research of Joe Gervais, Hannon believed Amelia made
it back to the United States after assuming a new identity. (He further suggested her liberation 'plane crash' story was a
ruse meant for the circle of intelligence individuals who had become privy to Earhart's war time survival.) In 1991 Hannon
wrote a ms about his experience entitled "Amelia Earhart Survived." (Ironcially the same title Rollin Reineck would
attribute to his 2004 book.) Anyway, George Putnam did not receive the Weihsien telegram
until three weeks after it was written. He sent a reply requesting more information, but the file contained no further reply to him. Curious, publicity hound he was, in public circles Putnam never mentioned this to anyone nor
did he ever write about it. (He died in 1950.) However it most likely was the case, after Amelia was already Irene, the post
war design was for George Putnam to always accept how Amelia existed no more after she turned up missing in 1937. (See
the above Jackie Cochran quote under Eleanor Roosevelt's.) Lost
Star author, Randall Brink understood how Jackie Cochran had circumvented high military
command censorship in Ghung King, China before routing the telegram to Putnam through Canada. In other words, it was quite
possible according to Randall Brink, George Putnam was never at all supposed to receive the Weihsien telegram as preferred
by U. S. Military Intelligence. [See Randall Brink's 1994 W. W. Norton book Lost Star for more information on this.]
Amelia's intellect, privacy, and thinking patterns? Consider
these quotes relative to the above that appeared in a newspaper after Amelia's 1928 Friendship flight: "She never mentioned
to me that she even contemplated flying across the ocean." "She speaks five languages fluently." "She
is just the most unassuming and retiring, yet sweet and companionable young woman one could possibly wish to know." Pauline
Coleman, co-worker of Amelia's, 6/22/28. Yet consider this quote as well: "She (Amelia) was a different person for public audiences. But around hangars and mechanics she
could be plenty rough at times, and would swear like a sailor with the rest of them." Former friend and plane
mechanic, Arthur Kennedy. The following are more excerpts from the 1966 book, The Search for
Amelia Earhart by Fred Goerner: "It was only two days later, though, [July
7, 1960] that the roof fell in on the captains. (Bob) Dinger and (Joe) Gervais had been summoned to Fuchu Air Base in Japan
to appear before a panel of U. S. 5th Air Force senior officers and present their information regarding Amelia Earhart."
[Note: Said 'information' pertained to seventy-two sworn affidavits of people once scattered among Japan's war time Imperial
mandate islands, who recalled various aspects of Earhart's post July 2, 1937 existence there.] "The Air Force refused
to divulge the complete story told by Captain Gervais..." "...most of the interview with the two captains was kept
secret and the Air Force clamped a security classification on the claims of Gervais and Dinger." (Gervais later described how
the 'seventy-two sworn affidavits' were actually confiscated by the Air Force panel who had grilled Captain Dinger and himself.)
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In
1987 the Republic of the Marshall Islands issued an artist's beautiful full-color rendering of a five part,
'Amelia Earhart fiftieth anniversary commemorative postal stamp series.' The series depicted (1) Earhart and Noonan's
1937 Lae New Guinea take-off, (2) The coast guard cutter Itasca stationed off Howland Island awaiting their arrival,
(3) Their downed Lockheed Electra with a damaged wing as it rested in shallow water off the coast of Mili atoll of the
lower Marshalls, (with indigenous Chamorros observing from a distance) and the date 'July 2, 1937' low-lined, (4) The days
later arrived Japanese ship the 'Koshu,' hoisting by crane the damaged Electra on board, as Earhart and Noonan observe from
the shore standing next to a Japanese Naval officer. Noonan
is shown with a bandaged knee, Earhart in a fairly casual stance. (The duo does not appear to be in the process
of being arrested or taken captive.)
It's interesting here to again recall the words described to Fred Goerner by Admiral Nimitz in 1965, "...Earhart
and her navigator went down in the Marshalls and were picked up by the Japanese." Recall as well, Nimitz had
been placed in charge of the Marshall Islands after its 1944 U. S. occupation. [Note: Ironically 1965 was the same year
Joe Gervais met and candidly photographed Irene-Amelia just prior to his Earhart investigations lecture
in New York. According to Gervais in a 2001 filmed interview, in said 35MM medium close-up photo that later
appeared in the 1970 book Amelia Earhart
Lives, Irene-Amelia's English husband, Guy
Bolam who was later described by his brother to have been 'MI6,' is shown advising his wife not to agree to the retired
Army Major's photo request. But Gervais was too quick with his shutter after she turned back to him with a
polite smile to decline. After he took the picture she quietly said to him, "I wish you hadn't done that."]
Today one can hear the voice of the late Admiral Nimitz on tape in
a San Francisco library, from an interview conducted by Fred Goerner. In part the Admiral described how he
didn't understand why they still refused to disclose the real Earhart story. Again, it is highly doubtful
the late-great Admiral would have allowed himself to have been engaged by Mr. Goerner at all in the early 1960s,
had he been aware Amelia had somehow returned to the United States and continued to live as a re-identified
person. Not so strange perhaps, after the Gervais-Irene died in 1982 national media support began to surface highlighting
the efforts of Elgen Long, (the crashed and sank near Howland theory) and Richard Gillespie, (the two perished on Nikumororo
theory.) Long was a trusted friend of Amelia's Sister, Muriel who died in 1998. Even Ric Gillespie had managed
to engage the participation of Muriel's grandson as a team medic on one of his Nikumororo expeditions. Indeed, by the
1990s both Long and Gillespie had become national media darlings when it came to the subject matter of Earhart's mystery.
Meanwhile the previous decade's massive combined research efforts of Gervais and Goerner were barely noticed anymore.
This may remind United States citizens of its own 'free press' euphemism. Especially when it comes to stories
of such a high profile and controversial nature.
One quote found in the superb recent years documentary, Orwell Rolls In His Grave by Robert Kane Pappas
soundly profiles media spin and diffusion of said nature in this way: "If a lie is repeated often enough, people
start to believe it." Not so much where national news media managing editors are aware of lies traceable
to their efforts. Rather, where entities who outright own the various outlets of their employ can and often do play
a hand as a controlling influence, when it comes to placing a spin on controversial news items. In the case of Earhart's
so-called mystery,
the story has been consistently regarded enough over the years to a point where there is no doubt a basic national press circuit regard
towards leaving it a mystery that has long been in place. In essence, one will hardly expect to find the Fox News
Network assigning a reputable investigative reporter to look deeply into the 1937 Earhart loss episode, that would include an
end goal of carte blanche honest reporting on his or her most curious findings to its national audience.
Instead the national circuit only reports on the most noted private entities that do such a thing, often omitting the
most confounding items revealed by them. Hence, by the year 2000 it had become fairly clear to the most learned on the
subject of Earhart's disappearance, how a likely tri-partite cohesion between Japan, the United States, and England dating
back to a surreptitiously placed seal over the Earhart debacle from the World War Two era, still somehow guided
the way the United States national press circuit covered the Earhart loss story to its ever increasingly dumbed-down audience, and
therefore to the world public. As an example, think about how long it took for the U. S. national press circuit to ascertain for
its national news audience, how Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson had children together even though said information had
been generally accepted in the public realm for a long time. News editors had begged to truthfully cover the story over
the years, but were not unleashed on it until after DNA proved it outright. Until then, the Jefferson and Hemings had kids story was presented
as a long debated, and often contested rumor.
So where Rutgers University disallowed access to the Gervais-Irene's
body (even to the original Irene Craigmile's son) after she died in 1982, and later offered how she was cremated and
interned in a common grave, not having certifiably
available DNA, fingerprints, or medical or dental records disabled the story's ability to break to the affirmative news wise, regarding Amelia's past name change
to Irene. This remains true, no matter how much other information certified it as a highly contestable debate at least. Afterwards
it even evolved to a point, where when it was brought up in 'official history circles' it was done so only in questioning
ways, to often end up defaced as an old and even 'lurid' hoax. Dr. Thomas Crouch, a long time Senior Curator of the Smithsonian Institute's Air and Space
Museum (a ward of the U. S. government) represents another example of how historical dictum influences have always regarded
the Irene-Amelia conveyance. In a 2003 phone interview with Tod Swindell Dr. Crouch remarked, "We're not allowed to show
favoritism to any Earhart mystery solving theories." Then again Dr. Crouch had no problem telling a national television
audience year in and year out, "It's ninety-nine percent certain Earhart and Noonan crashed into the ocean
and died." What such a credo basically translated to from Dr. Crouch's authorized Smithsonian perspective was and
still remains; 'Don't believe anything except
how Earhart and Noonan more than likely perished at sea.' So much has always represented the closest thing to the United States 'official viewpoint' on the matter.
At least, 'official silence' left it to be the safest answer Dr. Crouch would always offer, when speaking on behalf of the
Smithsonian Institute, about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. In turn, the National Geographic Society could only follow
his lead.
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decades ago. Major Gervais, who was considered by many to have been the most devoted Amelia Earhart researcher ever having
pursued the mystery since 1960, discovered the Irene-Amelia reality in 1965. The controversial 1970 McGraw-Hill book
by Joe Klaas, Amelia Earhart Lives expounded on the enormous amount of Joe Gervais' investigative research, and
displayed the first nationally published photo of Irene-Amelia. Fallout the Amelia
Earhart Lives book caused notwithstanding, and still lacking official authoritative guidance, Colonel Reineck spent
the last several years of his life trying to advance the Gervais claim of Earhart's name-changed survival to authenticity.
Colonel Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived, published in late 2003, was inspired by the Irene-Amelia forensic
studies of Beyond 37's Tod Swindell. Several portions of the analysis appeared in the Reineck book, although more samples
are better displayed in this website. [Beyond 37' was formed in 2001 by the Tod Evan Company in Los Angeles. It is run
by Investigative Researcher/Filmmaker Tod Swindell, who also serves as Chief Editor of Irene-Amelia.Com]
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