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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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## O c. At this time it is desired to utilize the services of these men in this advisory panel only rather than process them as regular CIA consultants. d. The rate of compensation is expected to be $50.00 per day for each consultant. e. Approval of use of these men on matters through SECRET has been obtained from I-50. ## 5. CONCLUSION It is concluded that Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Pago are particularly well suited to serve on the O/SI Advisory Panel on "Unidentified Flying Objects". ## 6. ACTION RECOMMENDED That permission be granted to approach Dr. Luis W. Alvarez and Dr. Thornton W. Page with regard to service as ad hoc consultants on the subject of "unidentified flying objects" and to initiate the necessary personnel action. Approved (disapproved). subject to security clearance. JAN 20 1953 Date 1- chicaw 1- early reading + file SCP 1- artia
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.