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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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. Mr. Chidon 3 OSI/TCD=auto B-3
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.