Documents / FOIA release
This 1961 Central Intelligence Agency file holds an internal memo and a proposed reply from General Counsel Lawrence R. Houston to Representative Joseph E. Karth. It concerns a constituent, Mr. Davidson, who had written to the CIA about flying saucers since the 1950s. He claimed the Agency created the flying saucer phenomenon and was withholding parts of the Scientific Advisory Panel report of January 1953. The reply calls his claims entirely unfounded. It says CIA took part in the 1953 study with the Air Force and has since referred all saucer correspondence to the Air Force.
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Henarella Joseph E. Karth House of Representatives Washington 2j, D. C. Sure No. Sure: In response to your 20 June inquiry concerning statements made by Leon Levinson in his 20 June letter to you, please be advised that Mr. Levinson has been involved in rather extensive correspondence with this Agency and with the Air Force since early 1956 on the matter of 1950's. Mr. Davison believes that the Central Intelligence Agency in upholding information from him which would prove that this Agency is, to go to his letter to you "... solely responsible for creating the Flying Sensor future." He believes further that this information is contained in the Scientific Advisory Final Report on 1800's, voted 17 January 1953, (Secret). Mr. Davison was supplied with the declassified and "Official" version of this report, but this apparently has only served to convince him that what is being disclosed is information which would prove his claims. This is in spite of the fact that he was informed so long ago on 20 May 1950 that "the complete formal report of the panel has not been fully declassified for security reasons. The formal report is not available to the general public for distribution or reproduction," and "for your information, the classified portion of the formal report and the official supplement did not deal specifically with 1800's but on other matters of intelligence significance which affect the national security." In addition, Major Foster went to great lengths, in this four page letter, outlining to Mr. Davison all of the information currently available on the subject of 1800's, interpreting the Final Report of the Scientific Advisory Level, concerning on erroneous or Fighter pilot Major Lawrence J. Tacker, U.S. Air Force Executive Officer, Public Information Division, Office of Information Services
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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.