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This is a CIA letter dated 26 March 1959 from Philip G. Strong to Dr. Thornton Page. Strong thanks Page for a copy of Page's 13 March letter to Mr. Fred A. Kirsch and for keeping him informed of Page's UFO correspondence. He calls the letter a masterpiece and praises its down-to-earth approach. He says the agency still receives letters on the subject, though fewer than before. The distribution list includes a UFO Project file.
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1424 33rd Street, B. N. Washington 7, D. C. 26 March 1959 Dr. Thornton Page 319 Washington Terrace Midletoon, Connecticut Dear Doctor Page: I have just received a copy of your letter of 13 March to Mr. Fred A. Kirsch and I appreciate very much your keeping me current on your correspondence concerning UFO's. Your letter is a masterpiece and I wish that earlier in this latest go-round of flying saucers' correspondence we had taken the very same drawn-to-earth approach that you have done in this letter. We still are besieged, though on a diminishing scale, with people who write us on this matter and I am afraid that in the future I am going to plagiarize from you. kindest personal regards. Sincerely, Philip G. Strong Distribution: Orig - addressee 2 - AS2 (Lexsuv)w/2 thermos 18 Mar letter AD/SI L/I themo 10 for letter (12) - UFO Project file w/carbon of 13 Mar letter 1 - DAD/C/SI chrono v/thermo of 15 Mar letter OSI PGStrong:nb (26 Mar 59)
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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.