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This CIA memorandum by David B. Stevenson of OSI, dated 20 July 1966, records a visit from Sara B. Hunt of the Air Force Office of Information about an Air Force request to declassify the February 1953 Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects. The request followed a 12 May television program on which panel chairman Dr. H. P. Robertson referred to CIA involvement. Stevenson noted that a sanitized version had already been released, and he said further declassification would require significant deletions.
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SUBJECT: Air Force Request to Declassify an OSI Paper on UFO's 6. Mrs. Hunt said that a more specific request would be sent to us in the near future. 7. Mr. Loomis is holding the recent Air Force request until Mrs. Hunt contacts us. DAVID B. STEVENSON Distribution: Orig & 1 - Addressee 2 - DD/GSI 2 - ACMB/DSD/OSI OSI/DSD/ACMB DBStevenson:sjn/7621 (20 July 66)
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.