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This Central Intelligence Agency file contains memoranda to the Director of Central Intelligence from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, dated October 1952. They find that the Air Force's Air Technical Intelligence Center explains flying saucer reports one case at a time, which is not enough to resolve the problem as a whole. The memos warn of two national security dangers, mass psychological panic and air defense vulnerability, and recommend that the National Security Council be briefed and that research begin.
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policy of public information which will minimize concern and possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified objects. H. CHADWELL H. MARSHALL CHADWELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence ANEXIS: TAB A--Memorandum to DCI, through DDI, Subject: Flying Saucers. TAB B-Letter to National Security Council with enclosure. TAB C-Memo to Director, Psychological Strategy Board with enclosure. CONGUPRENCES: Date: ___ LOFTUS E. BECKER Deputy Director/Intelligence ACTION BY APPROVING AUTHORITY: Date: Approved (disapproved):___ WALTER B. SMITH Director
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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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.