D. M. Ladd

D. M. Ladd was an FBI official active in the mid-20th century, serving as Assistant to the Director under J. Edgar Hoover. His primary role involved internal FBI communications on sensitive national security matters. In the context of UAP/UFO research or related fields, Ladd appears in declassified FBI documents related to Nikola Tesla's files, specifically in a memo dated April 3, 1950, from D.M. Ladd to the FBI Director regarding the Alien Property Custodian and Tesla's papers, which were transferred post his death in 1943 amid wartime alien enemy protocols. No direct involvement in UFO investigations, military UFO programs like Project Blue Book or Sign, or UAP research is documented. Birth and death years are unknown from available sources; nationality is American.