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This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated May 27, 1953, went from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division of OSI. It gives that division responsibility for keeping current knowledge of unidentified flying object sighting reports. The Applied Science Division is asked to support it from a weapons and hardware standpoint. The memo also says where existing UFO files are held and arranges for incoming material from O/CI to be routed straight to the division.
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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Chief, Physics and Electronics Division/OSI DATE MAY 27 1953 FROM : Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects 1. Responsibility for maintaining current knowledge of reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects is hereby assigned to your division. By carbon copy of this memorandum Chief of the Applied Science Division is requested to provide support from a weapons and hardware standpoint. 2. Major files on U. F. O.'s are located in Air Branch, Applied Science Division. A file of key documents and administrative papers are on file in the Operations Staff office. Mr. Jackson Hookert of IPS is presently the custodian of certain files on this subject which were transferred to IPS from O/CI. It is suggested that Physics and Electronics Division take over custody of such of these files as are necessary for it to fulfill the above responsibility. The Division should also arrange through Mr. Hookert so that material on this subject being forwarded from O/CI will be routed directly to Physics and Electronics Division. ? H. MARSHALL CHADWELL OSI/OSStrong1 (20 May 1953) Distributions Orig and 1 - Addresses 1 - Reqts/DI 1 - IPS/3I 1 = ASD/SI 2 = AD/SI 1 - Subject file 1 - Daily reading file 1 - Chrono 1 - Chrono 44 cm 1.1 cm 1.1 cm
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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.