Documents / FOIA release

Proposed Research Project

Central Intelligence Agency · 1977-06-03 · 3 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

"scenarios" for the UFO phenomenon itself. Our product will include a final report, suitable for selected or public release.

By coincidence I will be in Washington, D.C. on June 9 and would be available to meet then. Alternatively, I could meet at any future date of your convenience, given reimbursement of travel expenses.

With all good wishes.

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

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.