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This Central Intelligence Agency report (No. 00-W-27452), distributed 18 August 1953, compiles translated newspaper items from Athens, Brazzaville and Tehran published March to May 1953. German engineer Georg Klein claims the Germans planned flying saucers from 1941, flew one at Prague in February 1945, and that the Soviets seized plans and personnel at Breslau. It also reports four discs seen over Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari in November 1952, saucers over Homs, Syria, and a luminous object over Abadan, Iran.
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# CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. 00-W-27452 CD NO. COUNTRY Germany, USSR, French Equatorial Africa, Syria, Iran DATE OF INFORMATION 1952-1953 SUBJECT Military - Unconventional aircraft DATE DIST. 18 Aug 1953 PUBLISHED Daily, thrice-weekly newspapers WHERE PUBLISHED Athens, Brazzaville, Tehran DATE PUBLISHED 11 Mar - 20 May 1953 LANGUAGE Greek, French, Persian Newspapers as indicated. ENGINEER CLAIMS "SAUCER" PLANS ARE IN SOVIET HANDS; SIGHTINGS IN AFRICA, IRAN, SYRIA GERMAN ENGINEER STATES SOVIETS HAVE GERMAN FLYING SAUCER EXPERTS AND PLANS Athens, I Vradyni, 13 May 53 Vienna (Special Service) -- According to recent reports from Toronto, a number of Canadian Air Force engineers are engaged in the construction of a "flying saucer" to be used as a future weapon of war. The work of these engineers is being carried out in great secrecy at the A. B. Roe Company [transliteration from the Greek] factories. "Flying saucers" have been known to be an actuality since the possibility of their construction was proven in plans drawn up by German engineers toward the end of World War II. Georg Klein, a German engineer, stated recently that though many people believe the "flying saucers" to be a postwar development, they were actually in the planning stage in German aircraft factories as early as 1941. Klein said that he was an engineer in the Ministry of Speer probably refers to Albert Speer, who, in 1942, was Minister for Armament and Ammunition for the Third Reich and was present in Prague on 14 February 1945, at the first experimental flight of a "flying saucer." During the experiment, Klein reported, the "flying saucer" reached an altitude of 12,400 meters within 3 minutes and a speed of 2,200 kilometers per hour. Klein emphasized that in accordance with German plans, the speed of these "saucers" would reach 4,000 kilometers per hour. One difficulty, ac-
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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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.