Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency letter, dated 27 January 1953, is from Assistant Director H. Marshall Chadwell to Dr. Julius A. Stratton, Provost of MIT. It explains that CIA gathered a panel of scientists to study unidentified flying objects and says the agency agrees with the panel's conclusions. It adds that CIA's interest in the subject was kept restricted. Attached material includes a memo on the Advisory Group chaired by Dr. H. P. Robertson, which found the objects pose no threat to United States security. The panel's charge and a list of possible explanations are also attached.
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5. The first business on the agenda was problem by and a change (line 1) to the group by. Until this the followed by a statement of the will in answer by the department that had been requested by IHT to be into the "flight security problem" because of their related national security problems (2) possible co-operation to produce maps in China, (3) the continuing and ongoing interest in observations of "flight security" by the IHT, radar and observer agencies, (4) the current "flight security report" overload in the emergency coordination facilities of the Department of Relief. 6. Because of the quality of the consultants are the excellence of their Introduction to the subject by Mr. Unswell and Dr. Strong the Advisory Group never lost sight of its goals Inspite of the fact that the discussion took any encounters. 7. The Advisory Group submitted its report to AD/31 on 27 January 1933. Their principal finding was that at the present time the unidentified flying objects pose no threat to the security of the United States. They presented the conclusion of progress of observation regarding the sighting particularly as察看 the U.S. radar and discerner system, and for the general public as well. 8. Most of the C.I.I files as this subject are being retained in the offices of the C.I.I. The C.I.I. Division has a considerable file which according to the instructions they would like to dispose of because of the similarity of the Academy Group that "Elysay message" does not present threat to the United States security. Mr. Curtis feels that the material in the Weapons Division file should be maintained in one of the substantive Divisions of C.I.I and has presented that P.I.B Division take them over and maintain them. Mr. Stewart of Weapons Division currently has the material and estimates that several hours per task will be required to keep it current. In indicating that he is interesting to our, there is chief of Weapons Division, that P.I.B Division gets the files. I would like to suggest that the acting Vilas, P.I.B Division discuss this within. I personally don't see any P.I.B Division has any greater interest in this material than Weapons Division. 5. If GP Branch, PIL Division is given the responsibility for the files mentioned in paragraph 0, above, one (1) additional rule will be required. Rillac F. E. J. C. A. G. H. Lt. Colonel, U.S.F. FU20:SS cc: Gr1- & 1 - Div. Off. 1 - Div. 1 - Div. 1 - Originator
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.