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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from the Chief of the Contact Division, Office of Operations, is dated 4 January 1959. It covers Major Donald E. Keyhoe's attempt to learn whether a CIA agent told UFO witnesses to keep their sightings secret. The memo describes how five UFO photographs were returned to a witness. It suggests the witness or Keyhoe misunderstood what was said. It recommends asking Keyhoe why he wants the information and attaches a draft reply, noting an earlier finding that no CIA employee ordered any witness to stay silent.
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to return five photographs of alleged UFO's which were obtained, 7 November 1957, by a CD/CD employee in response to an CBI requirement while was returning the photos asked if he night station on a TV program that an intelligence organization had viewed the pictures and thought they were of interest. reply was negative. then asked if he could write a letter to the DCI asking his evaluation of the photos and ask his permission to present the resulting tutorial on TV. replied that would have to make his own decision about writing such a letter. This completed the interview. 3. We understand that who has a reputation as possibly being overenthusianlc about UTD's, is well and favorably known to Major Keyhoe, and therefore, we believe that has disclosed his content to Keyhoe. If so, it appears that either may have misinterpreted remarks or the Keyhoe may have misunderstood story, or combination of the two. 4. Normally, since our field representatives are overt and carry credentials identifying their association with the Agency, we respond affirmatively to any outside inquiries. In this case it seems that Kayboo, wants to prove a CIA agent told a UFO witness not to make his information public. ## 5. The possibilities for reply must themselves: (1) not normally provide the kind of information he wants in the absence of a reason for the inquiry and ask him why he wants to know. This might come out a reply leading back to his contention that a CIA agent told a UFO witness not to make public his information, and further that he has reason to believe was the agent. Should this occur Kayton could then be referred to Mr. Darman's memorandum to him on 17 April 1958 which explained that Agency records had been checked and revealed that no CIA employee at any time had ordered any UFO witness to remain silent about his observation.
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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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.