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This declassified Central Intelligence Agency file includes an Office of Scientific Intelligence memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence dated 2 October 1952 and an attached memo on flying saucers. H. Marshall Chadwell of OSI found that the Air Force's ATIC was the only group studying the subject, and only case by case. Chadwell warned of two national security risks, mass panic and confusion in air defense. He recommended that the National Security Council start research and adopt a public information policy.
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O c. The reasons for silence in the Soviet press regarding flying saucers. 10. Additional research, differing in character and emphasis from that presently being performed by Air Force, will be required to meet the specific needs of both operations and intelligence. Intelligence responsibilities in this field as regards both collection and analysis can be discharged with maximum effectiveness only after much more is known regarding the exact nature of these phenomena. 11. I consider this problem to be of such importance that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council, in order that a community-wide coordinated effort towards its solution may be initiated. H. MARSHALL CHADCELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence
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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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.