Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999
Albert K. Bender silenced by three men in black (book review retelling)
1953 ยท Bender's home, United States, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Both reviewed books cover the 1953 silencing of Albert K. Bender, the flying saucer investigator and editor of Space Review who abruptly abandoned his work in October that year. In Randles' version, which treats it as a government job, Bender had been told by contacts in government about inside involvement in the UAP phenomenon and had written to a colleague about it. A few days later three middle-aged men dressed in black arrived at his home in a dark car, one of them holding the very letter he had posted, and their mood was very threatening. Bender had no doubt they were US intelligence agents. Wintle records this but adds that one still wonders.
What Hind made of it
Wintle notes Randles treats it as a government job, though he himself remains unsure.
Explanation offered
US intelligence agents
In their words
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He had no doubts that they were US intelligence agents.
Cross references
- The Truth Behind the Men in Black
- Casebook of the Men in Black