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FERRIE
ODD CHURCHES
November 15, 1967
TO:
District Attorney
FROM:
TOM BETHELL
RE:
MORRIS BROWNLEE and DAVID FERRIE
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I spoke to MORRIS BROWNLEE in this office on
Tuesday, November 7, 1967 and I asked him how he first
met DAVID FERRIE.
BROWNLEE said that he first met FERRIE in 1953,
as a result of BROWNLEE'S interest in rockets. At that
time, BROWNLEE was building model solid fuel rockets, and
was interested in progressing to liquid fuel rockets.
He
met a friend (unidentified) who was in the C.A.P. who
advised BROWNLEE that he should contact Captain FERRIE if
he was interested in rockets. BROWNLEE then went to the
Moisant C.A.P. Squadron where he met FERRIE (in 1953).
FERRIE talked at length about liquid fuel rockets and
BROWNLEE was fascinated by his eloquence and intelligence.
They became friends. In 1958 BROWNLEE himself became a
civilian instructor in the C.A.P. (N.O. Squadron) teaching
"natomy and first aid.
the a
As a result of their association, and, evidently,
the influence FERRIE had on him, BROWNLEE was later baptized
.convert to the Catholic faith. FERRIE was present at the
ceremony, in the capacity of BROWNLEE's godfather. BROWNLEE
now regards himself as "somewhat of an apostate at the present
time. I cannot reconcile my own convictions and the Catholic
main line. His conversion, he recalls, was of an intellec-
tual character.
BROWNLEE remarked that after FERRIE left St Mary's
Seminary, Cleveland, Ohio (in 1940) he later became a Sishop
in a schismatic sect which has legitimate holy orders. FERRIE
to
may have celebrated mass, though BROWNLEE has never seen him
is
BROWNLEE advised that he last saw DAVID FERRIE
<<<<
a
year before BROWNLEE was questioned by this office (vihich
was December 1966) i.e. approximately December 1965.-At
this time FERRIE was depressed, and, according to BROWNLEE
predicted that he would not live much longer.
to is N 18
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