Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 22 January 1959 and written by the Chief of the Contact Division, Office of Operations, responds to continuing inquiries from Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Director of NICAP. Keyhoe had asked whether CIA agents told UFO witnesses to keep their sightings secret. The memo describes a November 1957 interview in which a Contact Division employee reviewed photos of alleged UFOs. It recommends asking Keyhoe why he wants the information and attaches a draft reply.
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Major Donald K. Keynes, DRC (Not) Director of NICAP 2535 Connecticut Avenue, K. V. Washington 6, N. C. Dear Major Ryboe: Thank you for your letter of January 12th. As you can readily understand we do not normally pace, outside of official channels, either affirmative or negative information in response to an inquiry such as yours. Would it be possible for you to tell us why you require the information, so that we may here a
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.