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These Central Intelligence Agency minutes cover a P&E Division branch chiefs' meeting on 11 August 1952. Mr. Sullivan announced a new "Flying Saucers" project to keep a file, build outside contacts and bring the Division up to date so it could form an opinion when needed. The minutes say ATIC collects flying saucer information for CIA. Branch representatives were named, and Ray Gordon was made Project Officer, tasked with gathering ATIC reports and past findings in meteorology, radar and other sciences.
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The meeting was at 0835 in Mr. Steele's office with a quorum consisting of Mr. Sullivan, Chairman, Mr. Ahern, Mr. Barnard, Mr. Engle, Dr. Fairchild, Dr. Fondiller, Gordon, Dr. Harkin and Mr. Rajala. Mr. Sullivan opened the meeting by saying that a project is to be started in the P&E Division on "Flying Saucers." It was suggested by Dr. Odarenko that this project be set up to maintain the file to establish outside contacts on such matters and to build up the up-to-date knowledge of the available ports to permit the Division and office to take a stand and to formulate an opinion as might be required. ATIC has the job of finding out about these flying saucers and keeping records. It is responsible for getting information for CIA. All members of the P&E Division are to look into this project and see what they can contribute to this problem. Each Branch appointed a representative: Mr. Elby for Physics, and Mr. Barnard for Electronics and Communications. Ray Gordon is Project Officer for the P&E Division. He is to find out who is handling the project in ORR and get a past history of what has been found out in the field of meteorology, radar and the other sciences. He should secure reports from ATIC and bring us up-to-date on what has been done. Mr. Steele wanted to know if P&E should be in the position to answer requests coming to us. Since ATIC has a standard form for reference purposes, requests would be answered through contact with them. Air Force has local agents to look into any questions coming to them. ATIC has a record; it was believed, to cover the whole world.
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.