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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## OO [ ] CHARGE TO O/SI ADVISORY GROUP OR UNIVERSITY FLYING OBJECTS 7. To review available evidence on unidentified flying objects and to consider possible dangers to national security related thereto. 2. To advise concerning the amount and kind of data necessary for a scientific evaluation of these phenomena. 3. In particular to connect on: a. Validity of current CII evaluation of related b. Methodology and scope of current and planned ATIC investigation. c. Advisability of further meetings of this group or further review of the subject by a larger panel.
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.