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Letter to All Flying Saucer Researchers

Central Intelligence Agency · 2003-07-07 · 4 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

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“Leon Davidson”2 pages

p. 1 …Leon Davidson, the publisher of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 and…
p. 3 …Leon Davidson, Apt. 10 64 Prospect St. White Plains, N.Y. Date Amount Enclosed (Do not…

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Approved For Release 2003/07/08 : CIA-RDP80B01676R004000110003-5

64 Prospect St. White Plains, N. Y.

WEST PLAINS

OCT 26

12 M

1959

N.Y.

Hon. Allen W. Dulles Central Intelligence Agency Washington 25, D.C.

Cases discussed

The Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948
Geiger Counters at Los Alamos; Green lights in the sky
Daniel Fry's White Sands Saucer Ride 1950
Taking Fry for a ride
The Oskar Linke Landing at Haselbach 1950
Reviving the Hasselbech case
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
The Year of the Big Flap (1952): The CIA plays its aces
The Flatwoods Monster 1952
Creating the Flat Woods "monster"
The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Tremonton films created
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
The "Rover Boys" and the Secret Panel (1953)
Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: the Battelle statistical study, 1955 1955
publisher of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
The Killian Case: American Airlines Flight 139 Paced by Three Lights 1959
The Soutnik Flap: ... Killian

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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.