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This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, is addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division of OSI. It is dated May 27, 1953, and was drafted on 20 May 1953. It gives that division responsibility for keeping current on reports of unidentified flying object sightings and asks the Applied Science Division for weapons and hardware support. It also says where the UFO files are kept and tells the division to take custody of the files it needs.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects
1. Responsibility for maintaining current knowledge of reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects is hereby assigned to your division. By carbon copy of this memorandum, Chief of the Applied Science Division is requested to provide support from a weapons and hardware standpoint.
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2. Major files on U. F. O.'s are located in Air Branch, Applied Science Division. A file of key documents and administrative papers are on file in the Operations Staff office. Mr. Jackson Heckert of IPS is presently the custodian of certain files on this subject which were transferred to IPS from O/CI. It is suggested that Physics and Electronics Division take over custody of such of these files as are necessary for it to fulfill the above responsibility. The Division should also arrange through Mr. Heckert so that material on this subject being forwarded from O/CI will be routed directly to Physics and Electronics Division.
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H. MARSHALE CHADWELL
CSI/PGSstrong:kv1 (20 May 1953)
Distribution:
Orig and 1 - Addressee
1 - Reqts/SI
1 - IPS/SI
1 - ASD/SI
2 - AD/SI
2 - AD/SI
1 - Subject file
1 - Daily reading file
1 - Chrono
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.