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This Central Intelligence Agency cable from the Chicago office, dated January 1958, discusses Dr. Leon Davidson's publication "The Air Force and the Saucers, Part Three," and a copy is forwarded with it. It disputes page 13 of the article, which describes a visit to the CIA office in Chicago, and calls parts of that account drama aimed at magazine appeal. The cable says Davidson was promised a code translation and transmitter identification. It urges that he be put in touch with headquarters so Chicago is relieved of the chore.
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RE DR. LEON DAVIDSON X DR. LEON DAVIDSON. WE ARE SENDING YOU BY BUCKSLIP A COPY OF DAVIDSON'S LATEST PUBLICATION ON SPACE SAUCERS ENTITLED: "THE AIR FORCE AND THE SAUCERS, PART THREE: THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BECOMES INVOLVED WITH SAUCERS." PLEASE NOTE PAGE 13 X 13 "VISIT TO THE CIA X CIA OFFICE IN CHICAGO." IN THIS SECTION DAVIDSON DID NOT WITHHOLD NAME BECAUSE ASKED HIM TO, BUT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T REMEMBER IT WELL ENOUGH TO RISK MISSPELLING. SEE THE ADDRESS CLIPPED FROM THE OUTER ENVELOPE. THE "SOUND-PROOFED CONFERENCE ROOM" WAS A CONVENIENT CONFERENCE ROOM ON THIS FIRST FLOOR OF THE COURT HOUSE USED BY ANY COURT PEOPLE WHO WISH TO GO IN THERE. DID, IN FACT, PROMISE TO GET THE CODE TRANSLATION AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE TRANSMITTER FOR DAVIDSON IF POSSIBLE, AND IN ANY EVENT TO GIVE HIM SOME RESPONSE WITHIN A WEEK OR SO. DID NOT X NOT ASK DAVIDSON TO KEEP SECRET THE CHICAGO CIA X CIA LOCATION, BUT ADVISED DAVIDSON NOT TO USE CIA X CIA LETTERHEAD IN HIS FORTHCOMING ARTICLE (BEING FORWARDED UNDER BUCKSLIP) WITHOUT FIRST CLEARING WITH CIA X CIA AUTHORITIES IN WASHINGTON. THE MATTER OF CIA'S CHICAGO LOCATION NEVER CAME UP AND THIS IS SHEER DRAMA AIMED AT MAGAZINE STORY APPEAL. IN OUR TELEPHONE CONVERSATION ON 8 JANUARY 1958 X 8 JANUARY 1958 DAVIDSON ADVISED THAT HIS NEXT ARTICLE (PRESUMably THE ONE WE ARE FORWARDING YOU) WAS IN THE HANDS OF PENTAGON SECURITY REVIEW PEOPLE. POSSIBLY, THEN, THIS ARTICLE IS NOT YET ON THIS PRESS. IN ANY EVENT, AGAIN WE URGE THAT IN VIEW OX THE FACT THAT DAVIDSON HAS BEEN DEALING WITH CIA X CIA, HE DE PUT IN TOUCH WE BE RELIEVED OF THIS CHORE. CH T0T 31/15202 ESV TQT-31/16352 APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE 24 MAY 75 107
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.