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This CIA memorandum for record was written by D. B. Stevenson of the Office of Scientific Intelligence and dated 11 August 1966. It records a 10 August phone call from Miss Sara Hunt of the Air Force Office of Information, who asked about the status of an Air Force request to declassify a CIA UFO report. On Dr. Walter Mackey's instructions, she was told the declassified report was being retyped and would be sent soon. Hunt said the Air Force wanted to show it to newsman John Leard, who had written about UFOs in the Saturday Review.
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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD: SUBJECT: Air Force Request to Declassify CIA UFO Report REFERENCE: Memo for Chief, DSD/OSI, dated 20 July 66 1. MIsg Sara Hunt of Air Force Office of Information phoned on 10 August to determine the status of our response to their request. 2. Upon instructions from Dr. Walter Mackey I told her that the declassified report was being retyped and would be forwarded soon. Miss Hunt's restraint was admirable. She pressed gently for a more specific response, which was not forthcoming. 3. Miss Hunt concluded by saying that Mr. John Leard, a newsman, had an article on UFO's in last week's Saturday Review. She stated that they wanted to show the new version to him as soon as it was declassified. D. B. STEVENSON B3 Distribution: Orig & 1 - ACMB/DSD/OSI 2 - DSD/OSI OSI/DSD/ACMB D8Stevenson sjm/7621 (11 Aug 66)
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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.