After reading an advert in the underground magazine "Oz" (in 1969) for the "International Fortean Organisation" (INFO), an American group "founded in 1966... by Paul and Ronald Willis," who had acquired material from the original Fortean Society (started in 1931, but in limbo since the 1959 death of its founder Tiffany Thayer), Rickard began to correspond with the brothers, particularly Paul. Rickard was instrumental in encouraging the Willises to publish their own Fortean journal – the "INFO Journal: Science and the Unknown" began intermittent publication in Spring, 1967 – and sent them many British newspaper clippings, although few saw print.