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This Central Intelligence Agency cable from the Chicago office, dated 31 January 1958, concerns Dr. Leon Davidson. It forwards his article "The Air Force and the Saucers, Part Three: The Central Intelligence Agency Becomes Involved with Saucers" and disputes details on page 13 about his visit to the CIA office in Chicago. The cable says the office's location never came up in that visit and calls this part of the article drama for magazine appeal. It asks that Davidson be referred to another contact so the Chicago office no longer has to deal with him.
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2A CITE CHGO 9337 SUPPORT FROM RE DR. LEON DAVIDSON X DR. LEON DAVIDSON. WE ARE SENDING YOU BY BUCKSLIP A COPY OF DAVIDSON'S LATEST PUBLICATION ON SPACE SAUCERS ENTITLED: "THE AIR FORCE AND THE SAUCERS, PART THREE: THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BECOMES INVOLVED WITH SAUCERS." PLEASE NOTE PAGE 13 X 13 "VISIT TO THE CIA X CIA OFFICE IN CHICAGO." IN THIS SECTION DAVIDSON DID NOT WITHHOLD NAME BECAUSE ASKED HIM TO, BUT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T REMEMBER IT WELL ENOUGH TO RISK MISSPELLING. SEE THE ADDRESS CLIPPED FROM THE OUTER ENVELOPE. THE "SOUND-PROOFED CONFERENCE ROOM" WAS A CONVENIENT CONFERENCE ROOM ON THIS FIRST FLOOR OF THE COURT HOUSE USED BY ANY COURT PEOPLE WHO WISH TO GO IN THERE. DID, IN FACT, PROMISE TO GET THE CODE TRANSLATION AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE TRANSMITTER FOR DAVIDSON IF POSSIBLE, AND IN ANY EVENT TO GIVE HIM SOME RESPONSE WITHIN A WEEK OR SO. DID NOT X NOT ASK DAVIDSON TO KEEP SECRET THE CHICAGO CIA X CIA LOCATION, BUT ADVISED DAVIDSON NOT TO USE CIA X CIA LETTERHEAD IN HIS FORTHCOMING ARTICLE (BEING FORWARDED UNDER BUCKSLIP) WITHOUT FIRST CLEARING WITH CIA X CIA AUTHORITIES IN WASHINGTON. THE MATTER OF CIA'S CHICAGO LOCATION NEVER CAME UP AND THIS IS SHEER DRAMA AIMED AT MAGAZINE STORY APPEAL. IN OUT TELEPHONE CONVERSATION ON 8 JANUARY 1958 X 8 JANUARY 1958 DAVIDSON ADVISED THAT HIS NEXT ARTICLE (PRESUMably THE ONE WE ARE FORWARDING YOU) WAS IN THE HANDS OF PENTAGON BE WRITE REVIEW PEOPLE POSSIBLY, THEN, THIS ARTICLE IS NOT YET ON THIS PRESS. IN ANY EVENT, AGAIN WE URGE THAT IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT DAVIDSON HAS BEEN DEALING WITH CIA X CIA, HE DE PUT IN TOUCH WITH FOR FURTHER (INTERMINABLE) BUSINESS, AND WE BE RELIEVED OF THIS CHORE. CH TOT 31/15202 ESW TOT. 31/16352
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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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.