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This Central Intelligence Agency file holds an internal Office of Scientific Intelligence memo and a proposed reply from CIA General Counsel Lawrence R. Houston to Representative Joseph E. Karth. The reply answers a constituent's claims that the CIA created the flying saucer furor and was withholding parts of the January 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel report. It calls these claims entirely unfounded. It states that the CIA studied the national security threat with the Air Force in 1953, has taken part in no saucer activities since, and refers all correspondence to the Air Force.
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Assistant Director, SI Reply to the Honorable Joseph E. Karth 1. In response to your 5 July request, a proposed reply to the Honorable Joseph K. Earth is attacked. 2. As is indicated, we have received a number of letters from Mr. Davidson on the subject of Flying Saucers since 1950. We have in every once referred these letters to the Air Force for appropriate reply insnuch as they are the Executive Agent in such matters. In each instance we have notified Mr. Davidson of such action. 3. Our file on this matter is rather extensive and should you have any additional questions, we would be pleased to attempt to answer them. Philip G. Brown Eberbert Scoville, Jr. Attachment: Reply to Honorable Joseph E. Karth
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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.