Documents / FOIA release
This CIA memorandum to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, released in 2003, answers a question from Major Keyhoe about claims that CIA agents stopped UFO witnesses from making their sightings public. It says the claim probably misreads Agency policy. Sources are asked to keep their relationship with the Agency confidential, but the information they hold belongs to them, and they may reveal or withhold it as they judge best.
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Enclosure COPY MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects REFERENCE: AD/SI Memorandum of 21 March 1958, Same Subject 1. Major Keyhoe's question concerning alleged efforts by CIA Agents to prevent UFO witnesses making public their sighting experiences, suggests a possible misinterpretation of the policy 2. A deliberate effort is made to apprise each source of the relationship between the source and the Agency is confidential in nature. This caveat is not intended to impose a security restriction on the information imparted by the source but to minimize the disclosure of the Agency's relationship with the source. It is conceivable that some confusion may result through failure of a source to distinguish between revelation of his relationship with the Agency and revelation of whatever information he possesses. The former is and should be maintained on a confidential basis; the latter is the property of the source to reveal or withhold as his judgment dictates.
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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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.