Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 26 April 1976, is a heavily redacted reply to a request for analytical guidance on UFOs in a case involving private UFO research. It reports that an Agency science and technology official found no apparent government program to identify or solve the UFO phenomena. Some Agency offices and personnel were monitoring the subject, but not on an official basis. The official offered to evaluate further information, so the case was kept open.
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REFERENCES: A) TELECON, 22 APRIL 1976 B) 1. PER THE REQUEST IN REFERENCE (B), WE ATTEMPTED TO OBTAIN ANALYTICAL GUIDANCE ON THE UFO SUBJECT. 2. WE CONTACTED THE A/DDS&T (DR TO SEE IF HE KNEW OF ANY OFFICIAL UFO PROGRAM AND ALSO TO ATTEMPT TO ANSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS POSED BY DR EXHIBITED INTEREST IN WHICH WAS HANDCARRIED TO HIS OFFICE. AFTER A SHORT EXAMINATION OF ITS CONTENTS DR ADVISED US THAT HE WOULD PERSONALLY LOOK INTO THE MATTER AND GET BACK TO US. AS WE DISCUSSED IN REFERENCE (A) DR HAS SINCE CONTACTED US AND RELAYED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION. 3. IT WOULD APPEAR TO BE BEST IF YOU ADVISED THAT HE SHOULD
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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.