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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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misleading statements or false report in certain Haywood's book, "The report of Untreatified Firing Objects", and explaining any a portion of the report was classified. A copy of this letter is required for your information. In summary, Mr. Jackson's belief that this agency is involved in the "Flying Taucer Nuclear" and is using this as a tool in psychological warfare is entirely unfounded. His indication that CIA is manipulating persons in leading them to believe in Flying Taucers is also entirely unfounded. This agency in conjunction with the Air Force investigated, in 1973, the threat to national security of the then president Flying Taucer reports. Since that time, CIA has not participated in any Flying Taucer activities and has reformed all correspondence to the U. 3. Air Force. Very truly yours, LOUVRANCE R. KURTZ CENTRAL COUNCIL ## Evalatures: 2. Inser, 26 June 1961, Ira L. Tavlema 2. Lovaton, 20 Mar 1936, Irae Majar Lovaton ## Distribution: C12. 1 - 70 2. Coreral Counsel 1 - Inspector General 1 = AD/SI 2 - ASD/6X (15)
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.