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This Central Intelligence Agency memo to the Chief of the Contact Division is dated 4 February 1955, though its text answers a request of 25 February 1955. It reports that the agency got a tape copy of a wire recording that the owners said held a message from outer space. The owners would not give up the original recording, even to the government, but were glad of the interest. The memo says other Chicago radio operators also claim such recordings and offers to track them down.
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Chief, Contact Division, 00 Radio Code Recording - Crec 1. In compliance with your request of 25 February 1955 (no D4S number) we have obtained a tape copy of the wire recording which made of a message from outer space. They write the original wire recording too highly to relinguish it, even to the government; however, they were everjoyed that we showed in interest. 2. They have recently used these Chicago radio operators who also claim to have recorded such messages so if you find this one interesting, we will be glad to track them the others. Our Chicago representative would appreciate that your conclusions are. Inclosure: As stated above.
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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.