Good evening, couple of chapters from 'Eisenhower's Close Encounters' By Paul Blake Smith. Enjoy

..“What I've heard was that Truman was at the first meeting, not Eisenhower.”
— a MUFON source

Two middle-aged men named “Paul H.” were old friends and well funded campaign supporters of Dwight Eisenhower, residing at times within a somewhat-upscale resort in Palm Springs called “The Smoke Tree Ranch.” For fully understanding the overall preparation for the 1954 Eisenhower summit with aliens, we must examine how Dwight came to hang out with these two specific businessmen on the outskirts of the peaceful desert community.

Paul Hoy Helms, Jr. (1889-1957) was a Kansas-born, wealthy president of his own baking company and has been described as “a local sports philanthropist.” He hosted the First Couple at his place, but likely knew nothing of any sort of ulterior motive for the president’s visit.

Paul Gray Hoffman (1891-1974), of Pasadena, California, was an Illinois-born Army soldier in WWI; a past president of the Ford Foundation; and the then-current chairman of the struggling Studebaker Corporation. Mr. Hoffman is a key name in this affair, and he was no innocent babe in the government woods. According to www.smokershistory.com, the elite corporate exec once served as an OSS officer during WWII. The long-defunct “Office of Strategic Services” was the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, meaning Hoffman was once a spy, to put it simply. Sneaky subterfuge could, at times, be his business.
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