"Following the establishment of contact with HCJB, their engineer also contacted Shell Mera, the Missionary Aviation airfield Base, some 100 miles south of Quito, where the girls were staying and in this way, be relaying messages from Seattle to Quito and from Quito to Shell [sic] Mera there was set up in effect a direct contact the parents in Seattle and the young women in Shell Mera."

Report. Paper, 8-1/2" x 11", typed. January 12, 1956. Summary of the conversations Kenneth Fleming (father of Peter Fleming) had been having with Olive Fleming, Elisabeth Elliot, Marilou McCully, Marj Saint, and Barbara Youderian at Shell Mera. HCJB was the short wave missionary radio station based in Quito and the station’s engineer served as the link for communication between Shell Mera and Seattle on January 12. This sheet was probably written by Kenneth Fleming or based on information he supplied. From BGC Archives, Collection 657, Box 2, Folder 11.