Documents / FOIA release
This CIA-released item, approved for release on 2003/07/08, is a 1959 mailing from Dr. Leon Davidson of White Plains, New York, addressed to Allen W. Dulles at the Central Intelligence Agency. It is a flyer that advertises a planned serial book called "Flying Saucers: Weapons of the Cold War," to run to 25 chapters, and includes the chapter list and a subscription form. The chapter titles describe the saucer story as psychological warfare shaped by the CIA. The mailing also offers copies of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
List of Chapters just necessarily in the order of publication) History is What You Make Of It Part I Chapter 1 Psychological Warfare: Who does what, and with which, and to whom? 2 Setting the Stage (1946-1949): Zimmerman's "Flying Platform" and "Flying Flapjack"; Interservice rivalry; Project GRUDGE. 3 The Turning Point (1950): Allen Dulles' new job; Saucer books start to appear. 4 Buildup Behind the Scenes (1951): Planning "Blue Book"; indoctrinating Ruppelt. 5 The Year of the Big Flap (1952): The CIA plays its aces; good sightings galore; Tremonton films created; Gen. Samford and Dr. Menzel give rebuttals(?); public accepts reality of "saucers". 6 The "Rover Boys" and the Secret Panel (1953): Behind the Washington scenes. 7 Little Men, What Now? (1954--): Overseas flaps; Era of the "midgets"; the traveling circus and its trail of sightings. Part II Strictly Personal 8 Getting Involved: Geiger Counters at Los Alamos; Green lights in the sky; Studying the secret GRUDGE report; Visit to Wright Field. 9 Living in Washington: Invited to the Pentagon; Major Fournet's report; Inside the briefing room; "Saucers will land in 1952". 10 The White Pleins Filter Center: How they handled saucer reports; alone at night. 11 Visited by Three Men: (Only one dressed in black; really Navy blue.): What is K9-XL-APPLE, and how can such an object fly? 12 The Long Grind: Research via U.S. Mail; prying loose the Blue Book report; Extracts from interesting correspondence. Part III The Grand Era of Saucer Research 13 The Spread of Interest: Growth of Clubs, Newsletters, Saucer Magazines; Project A; Hush-ups; Consordance of the chronologies of Ruppelt, Keyhoe, and Adamski. 14 Publishers in Saucerland: The flood of books; articles in slick magazines. 15 Contactees and Cults: Schism in saucer research; growth of study groups; Long John; occult, mystic, and spiritual facets. 16 Science and Technology: Real "flying saucers"; methods of inducing "sightings"; Space and satellites; Lippisch, von Glahn, Coanda; The "German scientists" bit (and did we bite!); NACA. 17 Saucer Magazines: Foreign and domestic, now and then, sane and otherwise. 18 Physical Evidence: Pure tin and pure malarkey; Otto-Maier "code"; Radar. Part IV The C.I.A. Angle 19 Big Dollars and Little Cents: Who gave the cash to Carr, Brown, and Green; The channels of publicity; Financial side of research(in the red!). 20 The International Network: Universal message of "saucer people"; interest in mailing lists; Anti-Atombomben-Aktion; Socio-politics. 21 Naming the Agents: John Smith, Walter W., Miss M., Lt.Col W., Col. A.; those friends of van Tassel; What's at Warrenton? 22 Setting up Contacts: Taking Fry for a ride; How Adamski was enmeshed; Creating the Flat Woods "monster"; Navigating by OmniRange. 23 The Soutnik Flap: Launching the Schmidt story; controlling publicity on good sightings; Reviving the Hasselbech case; Killian. 24 Surveillance From the Sky: Pre-satellite techniques; the military secret; State Department; Those "moving stars"; invisible saucers; the current secret military investigation. 25 Review and Forecast: Reactions of the C.I.A.; What Presidents have said; History of Air Force press releases; What makes a half-truth a lie?; Was Barnum right?; Whose saucers are now really here?
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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.