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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from the Acting Assistant Director for Operations to the Director for Scientific Intelligence is dated 1 April 1958. It answers a question from Major Keyhoe about claims that CIA agents stopped UFO witnesses from making their sightings public. The memo says Contact Division sources are asked to keep only their relationship with the Agency confidential, and that the information they hold is theirs to reveal or withhold. It also notes a November 1957 UFO collection request and records on Dr. Leon Davidson.
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Director for Scientific Intelligence OBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects REFERENCE All/BT Honorandus of 21 March 1950, same Subject 1. Major Nigson's question concerning alleged efforts by CIA Agents to prevent UFO witnesses making public their sighting experiences, suggests a possible misinterpretation of the policy governing the relationship of Contact Division field personnel and their sources: 2. A deliberate effort is made to apprise each source of Contact Division that the relationship between the source and the Agency is confidential in nature. This caretat is not intended to impose a security restriction on the information imparted by the source but to minimize the disclosure of the Agency's relationship with the source. It is conceivable that some confusion may result through failure of a source to distinguish between revelation of his relationship with the Agency and revelation of whatever information he possesses. The former is and should be maintained on a confidential basis; the latter is the property of the source to reveal or withhold as his judgment dictates. 3. On 6 November 1957 a directed collection request for UFO information was levied on Contact Division by the Office of Scientific Intelligence under Responses to the requirement were forwarded to Collection 8th X, OBI on 14 November 1957. 4. Contact Division has a detailed History of Dr. Leon Davidson's activities in the field of UFO's and outer space communications. ATIC has also communicated with Dr. Davidson to their mutual dissatisfaction. 5. Copies of the pertinent Contact Division field correspondence are enclosed. ## Acting Assistant Director for Operations Exclosures (1) Name to Chief, CD/CD from Chief, Detroit Office, Cated 7 Nov 57, Subject, Case (2) Ximo to Chief, CD/00 from Chief, dated 12 Dec 57, Subject, Quev (3) Copy of ZNX to MXUR, WN-21283, Duplicated (1 April 58) Distributions Orig & 1- Addresses, 1- Acting Chief, CD/00, 2- 00, 1- Stayback APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE 24 hrs 25
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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.