Documents / FOIA release
This CIA file on flying saucers includes a memorandum from Director Walter B. Smith to the Director of the Psychological Strategy Board. Smith says unidentified flying objects may matter for psychological warfare as well as intelligence and operations. The file also holds an Office of Scientific Intelligence study, draft NSC and Secretary of Defense papers proposing a centrally run research program, a briefing on the Air Force's small ATIC section under Captain Ruppelt, and a Project Blue Book paper on weather and research balloons.
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6. Additional work, differing in character and emphasis from that presently under way will be required to meet the specific needs in this field of both operations and intelligence. ## RECOVERY DATIONS One of the two feasible courses of action set for the below is proposed; one requires ESC action, and the other requires action by Secretary of Defense: 1. ESC action: under this course, it is recommended: e. That the DOI present to the ESC a draft ESC directive (ZAB A) which proscribes that a centrally administered research program under RD3 be established, in accordance with Sec. 214 (a), National Security Act of 1947, this program having for its research objectives requirements to be specified by the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central Intelligence, and Director of theological Strategy Board. That upon sequence of this NSC directive, CIA exercises its function in providing coordinated intelligence requirements and intelligence support to ICS. under this course, it is recommended: at the ECI request to Secretary of Defense along lines of the that coordinated resource program would be available to CII, and the study is information by Defense, that coordinated intelligence be provided by CII before the study is started.
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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. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.