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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for record, dated 5 March 1958 and signed by the Chief of the Applied Science Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence, covers requests to release a panel report to Mr. Davidson and Major Keyhoe. The Air Force information office, through Major Tacker, insisted on answering the letters itself, with copies of the unclassified report. The CIA agreed to forward the letters and suggested this procedure as a precedent for all future UFO inquiries.
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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT : Comments on Letters Dealing with Unidentified Flying Objects REFERENCE: Memo to Assistant Director/SI from Chief, ASD/SI, dated 4 April 1958, same subject 1. Major Byrne's office (AFCI) was contacted in regard to the release of the panel report to Mr. Davidson and Major Keyhoe. I was referred to Major Tacker, Office of the Secretary of Air Force Information Service (SAFIS). 2. In response to our query as to whether Air Force had any objection to our answering these letters enclosing a copy of the panel report, Major Tacker indicated that he had rather the CIA forward the letters to him with copies of the unclassified report and he will answer the letters. He stated that the Air Force is endeavoring to impress upon Major Keyhoe and others in a similar position, that his office is the proper place to come for such information. 3. In view of my conversation with Maj Tacker, I called Frank Chapin in the DDGI's office and advised him that the Air Force not only preferred to answer the letters, but was most insistent that they be permitted to answer them. He, therefore, is going to send the letters to Major Tacker and advise Mr. Davidson and Major Keyhoe of this action. 4. I think we can use this procedure as a precedent henceforth in all inquiries regarding UFO's. Mc E Léow to 100,000,000 Chief, Applied Science Division, SI Daucedine & Kekaenopoulos by ... Electronic Thin AF Warmest wishes . I am not sure if you are asking for the number of people in the image or the number of people in the sentence.
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.