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This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated 8 August 1955, is from the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division to the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reviews the division's 1953 assignment to keep current knowledge of unidentified flying object sightings, which took 10 to 25 analyst hours per month. It states that no intelligence of concern to national security was developed. It recommends terminating the project and placing its files in dead storage.
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5. It is requested that this Division be relieved of the responsibilities assigned to it under Reference A since: a. No intelligence of concern to national security has been developed from the project. b. The project as defined by Reference C does not fall under the provision of DCID 4/4 on Critical National Intelligence Objectives. c. P&E's successful participation in the FY-1956 OSI Production Program requires that all non-essential activities be terminated. 6. In view of the fact that no positive intelligence of significance has been produced, under the subject project, it is recommended that the project be terminated and the files thereof be placed in dead storage. Тодом Гассевенко TODOS M. ODARTIKO
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.