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This Central Intelligence Agency routing slip, dated August 1958, is attached to an August 20, 1958 letter from Donald Keyhoe of NICAP to CIA Executive Officer J. S. Earman. Keyhoe asks what role the CIA plays in UFO investigations. He also requests the full classified 1953 report of the scientists' panel and an interview with a CIA official. The routing note says the Air Force is the only agency qualified to speak on UFOs and suggests referring Keyhoe's letter to it.
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Mr. J. S. Eirnall B3 Executive Officer Central Intelligence Agency Washington 25, D.C. Dear Mr. Earman With the approval of Board members with whom I have discussed the situation, I am writing again to ask what part the Control Intelligence Agency plays in the official investigation of the unidentified flying objects. Since January 1953 I have been aware of the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency assembled a group of scientists at the Port to examine the evidence on U.S. and to decide or suggest a case of action. Several months ago I was questioned by an investigator of the McClellan Subcommittee on Government Operations. During one of the several interviews in which I gave the subcommittee mass of verified evidence, I told the investigator of the 1951 meeting of scientists and suggested that he ask for the copy the official report. Enter no told me that the Air Force explained that this was not Air Force document and that they would have to ask the approvance the agency involved. On still another occasion the investigator told me that this had proved to be the Central Intelligence Agency that he had been sent a summary of the full report, which was classified. Until that time, the Air Force had officially denied the existence of any such document. However, shortly after I had the verifi- from the McClellan subcommittee investigator, the Air Force atitted that there was such a document, as I had claimed. With a short time they released what they said was a summary of the main points, and the conclusions of the scientists. No matter was made of the connection with the Central Intelligence Agen
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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.