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This Central Intelligence Agency foreign press report, distributed 18 August 1953, collects unevaluated newspaper items published in Athens, Brazzaville and Tehran between March and May 1953. It relays German engineer Georg Klein's claim that wartime German flying saucer designs and specialists were seized by the Soviets. It also reports four discs seen over Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari, on 22 November 1952, flying saucers over Homs, Syria, and a luminous object over Abadan and Khuzistan, Iran, on 18 May 1953.
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REPORT NO. 00-W-27452 CD NO. -- COUNTRY Germany, USSR, French Equatorial Africa, Syria Iran SUBJECT Military - Unconventional aircraft DATE OF INFORMATION 1952-1953 HOW PUBLISHED Daily, thrice-weekly newspapers DATE DIST. 18 Aug 1953 WHERE PUBLISHED Athens, Brazzaville, Tehran DATE PUBLISHED 11 Mar - 20 May 1953 LANGUAGE Greek, French, Persian CENTRAL INTELLISEMS. OVERAGES CLASSIFICATION Cancelled Changed In BY AUTHORITY SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. SOURCE Newspapers as indicated. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION ENGINEER CLAIMS "SAUCER" PLANS ARE IN SOVIET HANDS; SIGHTINGS IN AFRICA, IRAN, SYRIA Vienna (Special Service) -- According to recent reports from Toronto, a number of Canadian Air Force engineers are engaged in the construction of a "flying saucer" to be used as a future weapon of war. The work of these engineers is being carried out in great-secrecy at the A. B. Roe Company translation from the Greek factories. GERMAN ENGINEER STATES SOVIETS HAVE GERMAN FLYING SAUCER EXPERTS AND PLANS Athens, I Vradyni, 13 May 53 "Flying saucers" have been known to be an actuality since the possibility of their construction was proven in plans drawn up by German engineers toward the end of World War II. Georg Klein, a German engineer, stated recently that though many people believe the "flying saucers" to be a postwar development, they were actually in the planning stage in German aircraft factories as early as 1941. Klein said that he was an engineer in the Ministry of Speer probably refers to Albert Speer, who, in 1942, was Minister for Armament and Ammunition for the Third Reich and was present in Prague on 14 February 1945, at the first experimental flight of a "flying saucer." During the experiment, Klein reported, the "flying saucer" reached an altitude of 12,400 meters within 3 minutes and a speed of 2,200 kilometers per hour. Klein emphasized that in accordance with German plans, the speed of these "saucers" would reach 4,000 kilometers per hour. One difficulty, according to Klein, was the problem of obtaining the materials to be used for the construction of the "saucers," but even this had been solved by German engineers toward the end of 1945, and construction on the objects was scheduled to begin, Klein added. ARCHIVAL RECORD PLEASE RETURN TO AGENCY ARCHIVES APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE 6 hrs CLASSIFICATION
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.