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This is a short CIA letter from Philip G. Strong to astronomer Dr. Thornton Page, dated March 1959. Strong thanks Page for a copy of his 13 March letter to Mr. Fred A. Kirsch about UFOs and calls it a masterpiece for its down-to-earth approach. Strong says the agency is still besieged by people writing about flying saucers, though less often, and jokes that he will borrow Page's wording. Distribution notes include the UFO Project file.
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1424 33rd Street, B. W. Washington 7, D. C. 267 March 1959 Dr. Thornton Page 319 Washington Terrace Hiddleston, Connecticut Dear Doctor Page: I have just received a copy of your letter of 13 March to Mr. Fred A. Kirsch and I appreciate very much your keeping be current on your correspondence concerning UFO's. Your letter is a masterpiece and I vish that earlier in this latent go-round of flying saucers' correspondence we had taken the very same dam-to-earth approach that you have done in this letter. We still are besieged, though on a diminishing scale, with people who write us on this matter and I am afraid that in the future I am going to plagiarize from you. Kiniest personal records. Sincerely, Rullo G. Strong Distribution: Orig - aidressee Orig - addresssee 2 - ASX (Lexov) v/2 thermos 18 Mar letter AD/SI v/1 thermo 18 Mar letter 1 - UFO Project file v/carbon of 18 Mar letter 2 - DAD/C/SI chrono v/thermo of 18 Mar letter OSI PCStrong:cb (26 Nov 59) UFO μμ 33 83
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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.