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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from W. E. Lexow, Chief of the Applied Science Division, responds to letters from Leon Davidson and Donald E. Keyhoe seeking the 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel report. It says Edward J. Ruppelt's book misstated the panel's mission, and it recommends sending the declassified version without revealing the panel's CIA link. The attached 17 January 1953 report says UFOs posed no direct threat to national security. It also recommends stripping them of their special status.
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## O ## O We suggest that this aim may be achieved by an integrated program designed to reassure the public of the total lack of evidence of inimical forces behind the phenomena. /0/ Lloyd V. Berkner Associated Universities, Inc. /0/ H. P. Robertson, Chairman California Institute of Technology /0/ S. A. Goudsmit Brookhaven National Laboratories /0/ Luis W. Alvarez University of California /0/ Thornton Page John Hopkins University
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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.