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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, dated 9 January 1953, asks permission to engage Dr. Luis W. Alvarez and Dr. Thornton Page as ad hoc consultants. They would serve on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which was scheduled to convene on 14 January 1953. The memo cites a December 1952 IAC decision to enlist scientists to review UFO evidence. It proposes paying each consultant $50 per day, and approval is subject to security clearance.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence THROUGH Deputy Director (Intelligence) Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence SUBJECT : Consultants for Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects ## 1. PROBLEM To obtain the services of Dr. Luis W. Alvarez and Dr. Thornton Page as ad hoc consultants to the O/SI Advisory Panel on "Unidentified Flying Objects", scheduled to convene 14 January 1953. ## 2. ASSUMPTIONS It is assumed that Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Page will accept employment as consultants. ## 3. FACTS BEARING ON THE PROBLEM a. Item 3 of the Minutes of IAC Meeting, 4 December 1952, states that: "The (Agency) will enlist the services of selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence (of "unidentified flying objects")..." b. Dr. Luis W. Alvares is an outstanding scientist in the fields of radar operation, characteristics and anomalies. c. Dr. Thornton W. Page is a particularly competent astronomer and astrophysicist. Moreover, he has given considerable thought to the subject of "unidentified flying objects". ## 4. DISCUSSION a. Every effort has been made to consider the most competent scientists whose dispositions are suitable to this complex study. It is believed that the above men would be eminently satisfactory for the task. b. A check of the Consultants' Registry disclosed that consultants presently employed by CTA either did not have the proper qualifications or were currently unavailable.
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.