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This is an Office Memorandum dated 8 December 1953 from the Chief, Operations Staff, O/SI, to the CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reports a consultant's review of Keyhoe's book "Flying Saucers from Outer Space", which was checked for security breaches about CIA's part in flying saucer investigations. The consultant found the book distorted. The CIA mentions, on page 242, were judged not to reveal the O/SI panel. The memo concludes that no security breach occurred and recommends no further action.
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# Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence DATE: 8 December 1953 FROM : Chief, Operations Staff, O/SI . SUBJECT: Report on Book Entitled "Flying Saucers from Outer Space" 1. As requested, the subject book was reviewed by one of our consultants with particular reference to possible security violations concerning CIA's part in the flying saucer investigation. Pertinent comments of this consultant are as follows: a. "The book itself is highly readable, but the content is highly distorted and filled with so many half-truths and inferences that I feel certain that the author is knowingly committing a perpetration. Prominent in the book is one Albert M. Chop, an Air Force (Reserve) Public Information Officer who was on duty at the Pentagon "until recently returning to inactive duty. The author, Keyhoe, makes extensive use of Chop's statements and implies that the Air Force is deliberately concealing positive conclusions from the public. b. "CIA is mentioned several times on page 242 of the book --- nowhere else. Keyhoe states here that a friend of his, with high level 'contacts', told him about February 17, 1953, that: (1) CIA 'people' advised the Air Force to put out a report debunking the snusers, tell the public the project was ended and then carry it on underground, Top Secret. (2) Some of the 'intelligence boys' were mad as the devil at CIA for even suggesting the above action. c. "CIA is supposed to have made these recommendations following a 'secret high level briefing'. There is no apparent knowledge of the CIA panel restings although the Fanol's recommendations might have been interpreted by a fanatical saucer 'believer' as 'dubunking'. However, there was certainly no recommendation that suggested hiding any information from the public. 5le
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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.