Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 3 June 1977, was written by General Counsel Anthony A. Lapham to the Director of Research and Development, DDS&T. It forwards a letter from an acquaintance who proposed a comprehensive research project on the global UFO phenomenon, to be carried out by a multidisciplinary team at SRI. The project would review government policies, analyze UFO data, assess ways of collecting data and propose a national research plan. Lapham states that he strongly suspects the Agency has no interest.
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Anthony Lapham, Esq. General Counsel Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 Dear Tony: I am following up on our earlier conversation suggesting that the Office of Research and Development (ORD) might have an interest in hearing and exploring avenues of research in which we are presently engaged. I would like, if agreeable, to discuss a comprehensive research project on the global UFO phenomenon. Its major elements include - Collection and analysis of existing policy, both official and undeclared, held by key governments on the UFO phenomenon - Analysis of selected data and research on the UFO phenomenon - Formulation of critical research questions on the phenomenon - Assessment of institutional and informal systems for gathering and storing data on the phenomenon - Assessment of alternative policy strategies on the UFO phenomenon - Formulation of a national research plan on the UFO phenomenon. On approval, this project will be executed by a multidisciplinary team at SRI, in collaboration with selected scientific and policy consultants. We anticipate that the analysis of selected UFO data may yield significant insight into dimensions of the UFO phenomenon that have been under-emphasized or overlooked. Policy options will be assessed across an array of potential human values and alternative
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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.