Documents / FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency letter from General Counsel Lawrence Houston to Congressman Joseph Karth. It answers Karth's inquiry about claims made by Leon Davidson, who had written to the CIA and the Air Force since early 1958. Davidson alleged that the CIA created the flying saucer furor and was holding back parts of the 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel report. The letter calls both claims entirely unfounded and says that since its 1953 review with the Air Force, the CIA has referred all UFO correspondence to the Air Force.
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```markdown ``` In response to your 30 June inquiry concerning outcasts and by Leon Haridson in his 30 June letter to you, please be assured that Mr. Haridson has been involved in rather extensive correspondence with this Agency and visits the Air Force since early 1958 on the nature of WO's. Mr. Devifera believed that the Central Intelligence Agency is withholding information from all which would prove that this agency is, to quote his letter to you, "... solely responsible for creating the Flyley Cancer Rarote. ..." It believes further that this information is contained in the Scientific Advisory Panel report on WHO's, dated 17 January 1953, (Secret). Mr. Devifera was supplied with the declassified and "official" version of this report, but this apparently has only served to convict those who want to be withheld in information which would prove his claim. This is in spite of the fact that he was informed as long ago as 29 May 1950 that "The complete formal report of the panel has not been fully declassified for security reasons. The formal report is not available to the general public for distribution or reproduction," and "For your information, the classified portion of the formal report and the official supplement did not coal specifically with WHO's but on other matters of intelligence significance which affect the national security." In addition, Major Tucker went to great length, in this four page letter, outlining to Mr. Devifera all of the information currently available on the subject of WHO's interrogating the formal report of the Scientific Advisory Panel, presenting no erroneous or Lesser than Major Lawrence S. Tacker, U.S. Air Force Executive Officer, Public Information Division, Office of Information Services
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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.