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This Central Intelligence Agency file dated 2 December 1952 holds a memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence. It says that sightings of unexplained high-speed objects at great altitudes near major U.S. defense installations need immediate attention. Chadwell proposes a consulting group of qualified scientists. The file also holds a draft memorandum to the National Security Council and a draft directive. Together they would have the Director of Central Intelligence run a priority program of intelligence and research to identify unidentified flying objects.
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6. Attached hereto is a draft memorandum to the NSC and a simple draft NSC Directive establishing this matter as a priority project throughout the intelligence and the defense research and development community. H. MARSHILL CHADVELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence Attachments: Draft rumo to NSC with draft Directive Distribution: Orig. & 1 - forward 1 - DD/I 2 - AD/SI
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.