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This Central Intelligence Agency release, approved in 2001, contains a December 1952 memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence. It also includes a draft memo from Walter B. Smith to the National Security Council and a draft NSC directive. Chadwell reports that sightings near major U.S. defense installations are not attributable to natural phenomena or known aircraft. He proposes a consulting group. The draft directive would have the DCI run a research program on identifying unidentified flying objects.
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6. Attached hereto is a draft memorandum to the NSC and a simple draft NSC Directive establishing this matter as a priority project throughout the intelligence and the defense research and development community. 25X1A H. MARSHALL CHADWELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence Attachments: Draft memo to NSC with draft Directive
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