The Air Force had inadvertently helped Keyhoe--in fact, they made his story a success. He and several other writers had contacted the Air Force asking for information for their magazine articles. But, knowing that the articles were pro-saucer, the writers were unceremoniously sloughed off. Keyhoe carried his fight right to the top, to General Sory Smith, Director of the Office of Public Information, but still no dice--the Air Force wasn't divulging any more than they had already told. Keyhoe construed this to mean tight security, the tightest type of security. Keyhoe had one more approach, however. He was an ex-Annapolis graduate, and among his classmates were such people as Admiral Delmar Fahrney, then a top figure in the Navy guided missile program and Admiral Calvin Bolster, the Director of the Office of Naval Research. He went to see them but they couldn't help him. He _knew_ that this meant the real UFO story was big and that it could be only one thing--interplanetary spaceships or earthly weapons--and his contacts denied they were earthly weapons. He played this security angle in his _True_ article and in a later book, and it gave the story the needed punch. But the Air Force wasn't trying to cover up. It was just that they didn't want Keyhoe or any other saucer fans in their hair. They couldn't be bothered. They didn't believe in flying saucers and couldn't feature anybody else believing. Believing, to the people in ATIC in 1949, meant even raising the possibility that there might be something to the reports. The Air Force had a plan to counter the Keyhoe article, or any other story that might appear. The plan originated at ATIC. It called for a general officer to hold a short press conference, flash his stars, and speak the magic words "hoaxes, hallucinations, and the misidentification of known objects," _True_, Keyhoe and the rest would go broke trying to peddle their magazines. The _True_ article did come out, the general spoke, the public laughed, and Keyhoe and _True_ got rich. Only the other magazines that had planned to run UFO stories, and that were scooped by _True_, lost out. Their stories were killed--they would have been an anti-climax to Keyhoe's potboiler. The Air Force's short press conference was followed by a press release. On December 27, 1949, it was announced that Project Grudge had been closed out and the final report on UFO's would be released to the press in a few days. When it was released it caused widespread interest because, supposedly, this was all that the Air Force knew about UFO's. Once again, instead of throwing large amounts of cold water on the UFO's, it only caused more confusion. The report was officially titled "Unidentified Flying Objects-- Project Grudge," Technical Report No. 102-AC-49/15-100. But it was widely referred to as the Grudge Report.