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This Central Intelligence Agency Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum, dated 8 December 1953, reports a consultant's review of Donald Keyhoe's book "Flying Saucers from Outer Space" for possible security violations about CIA's role in flying saucer investigations. The consultant calls the book distorted and full of half-truths, notes CIA appears only on page 242, and says the CIA panel never recommended hiding information from the public. The memo finds no security breach and recommends no further action.
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d. "Therefore, Keyhoe, having built up a 'case' for saucers being interplanetary, insists that the Air Force (and CIA) know the 'truth' and are refusing to give the public the facts. e. "I saw Dr. Stefan T. Possony (Chief, USAFOIN Special Study Group) recently. He was not aware of any particular concern in the Pentagon over Keyhoe's assertions. However, it might be wise to check directly with the officer who replaced Major Dewey Fournet in Current Intelligence. I believe his name is Smith. Part of his duties are to follow all reports of sightings of U.F.O.'s. f. "As to the possibility of a security breach, it is difficult to say. I suspect that Chop heard of CIA's being briefed but that no leak occurred regarding the O/SI Panel." 2. It is believed that no security breach is involved and any investigation of this book would only serve to focus additional attention on an obvious bit of sensational science "fiction". It is recommended, therefore, that no further action regarding the book be initiated by this office.
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.