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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from the Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence, dated January 1953, asks permission to hire Dr. Luis W. Alvarez and Dr. Thornton Page as ad hoc consultants to the O/SI Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which was to convene on 14 January 1953. It describes Alvarez as a radar expert and Page as an astronomer who had studied the subject. It proposes paying each $50 per day. The request was approved subject to security clearance.
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JAN 9 1953 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence TIROUGH Deputy Director (Intelligence) FROM : Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence SUBJECT Consultants for Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects ## 1. PROBLEM To obtain the services of Dr. Luis W. Alvarez and Dr. Thornton Page as ad hoc consultants to the O/SI Advisory Panel on "Unidentified Flying Objects", scheduled to convene 14 January 1953. ## 2. ASSURPTIONS It is assumed that Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Page will accept employment as consultants. ## 3. FACTS BEARING ON THE PROBLEM a. Item 3 of the Minutes of IAG Meeting, 4 December 1952, states that: "The (Agency) will enlist the services of selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence (of "unidentified flying objects")..." b. Dr. Luis W. Alvarez is an outstanding scientist in the fields of radar operation, characteristics and anomalies. c. Dr. Thornton W. Page is a particularly competent astronomer and astrophysicist. Moreover, he has given considerable thought to the subject of "unidentified flying objects". ## 4. DISCUSSION a. Every effort has been made to consider the most competent scientists whose dispositions are suitable to this complex study. It is believed that the above men would be eminently satisfactory for the task. b. A check of the Consultants' Registry disclosed that consultants presently employed by CLA either did not have the proper qualifications or were currently unavailable.
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.