Documents / FOIA release
This undated Central Intelligence Agency paper, released under the title "National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)", describes how the private group was run. It names Stuart Nixon as Executive Director and describes an Editorial Review Board and an advisory group that includes former CIA and Defense Intelligence people. It also covers a regional network of about 35 investigators, a $40,000 budget with 3,500 members, and a planned computer project called Project Access to analyse more than 15,000 reports.
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NICAP currently operates on a $40,000 yr. budget and has 3,500 dues paying members. Both the membership and the budget may be expected to increase xxsubstatially due to the recent UFO flap. A computer project codenamed "Project Access" is currently in the mill. "n effort is being made to develop some sort of pattern analysis out of the 15,000 or more raw reports reportedly in NICAP's files. This apparently will take the following form: 1. event- including time, place, terrain, weather speed, color, six shape and other information 2. principals-including data on all witnesses and others involved in reports such as bio data, medical info and psychological aspects 3. investigation- including evaluation of reports and special notes from the regional investigator on witness discrepancy in testiony etc... The following is apparently the xm organizational structure and relationships within NICAP:
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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.