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This is a CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum for record by David B. Stevenson, dated 23 August 1966. It covers three phone calls in August from Mrs. Sara Hunt of the Air Force Office of Information about the Air Force's request to declassify a CIA UFO report. Stevenson told her the response had gone out and that references to CIA and the names of CIA employees had been removed. The Air Force confirmed it had received the reply and asked for its copy of the report back.
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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD: SUEJECT: Air Force Request to Declassify CIA UFO Report REFERENCE: 1. Memo to Ch/DSD dated 20 July 1966 2. Memo for Record dated 12 August 1966 1. Mrs. Sara Hunt of the Air Force Office of Information called the undersigned twice on 16 August and once on 18 August. 2. The first time she asked if our response had gotten out and I told her it had. She requested the phone number of the office responsible for issuing the reply and I gave her number. 3. The second time Mrs. Hunt called she wanted to know the extent of the deletions, if any. I told her that, at least, reference to CIA and names of CIA employees were removed, and that I had heard that some additional sanitizing probably was done in the processing of the reply. 4. The earth call was to state that Air Force had received our response, and to ask for the return of their copy of the CIA report which had been forwarded to us with the request for declassification. DAVID B. STEVENSON Distribution: Orig & 1 - ACME/CDD/OSI 1 - DSD/OS1 1 - EO/OSI OSI/DSD/ACHB DEStevenson:sjn/7621 (23 Aug G6)
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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.