Ad Dilinjāt Well, nature is running its course, and Lynn Catoe has invited John to dinner in her apartment. So, his letter is both a response to her letter about the Gordon Evans case and to her invitation. I’ll cut the more personal paragraphs, and just post the former. He describes some of William Donovan’s erratic behavior, and adds an interesting note on the need for better terminology in ufology. “Tamper,” by the way, is a term popularized by Richard Shaver, for interference by the deros and their ray machines.
For their dinner together perhaps Lynn served to JAK a well-done Deren-burger. It would be quite interesting to see JAK’s correspondence during the writing of OTH–hopefully, this is forthcoming.
Comment by Ronald Beaumont — August 6, 2020 @ 3:49 pm
Ronald — I posted John’s correspondence about OTH, especially his negotiations with Playboy, years ago, but it was all lost when the site was hacked. Maybe I’ll have to repost it…
Comment by Doug — August 11, 2020 @ 10:34 pm
[…] from loss to history. A bit of the personalities involved appears here, but more particularly in A Letter to Lynn Catoe, January 29, 1968. This John Keel note gives insight into some of the less-grounded folks in the UFO community and […]
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