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Unidentified Flying Objects

Central Intelligence Agency · 1953-02-02 · 3 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memo by F. C. Durant, dated 31 March 1953, reports that the Office of Current Intelligence is no longer following UFO reports. It proposes that O/SI keep watch on the subject by naming David E. Stevenson of the Applied Science Division as action man, routing future UFO messages to him, and transferring the O/CI files, most of which Durant recommends destroying. Panel Reports are noted as held in the Operations Staff office.

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5. If the above plan appears suitable and you so desire, I'll prepare directive memos.

B-3.

F. C. DURANT

OSI/FCDurant:bm

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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.