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This CIA memorandum was released in 2001. It is dated 13 October 1952 and was written by James Q. Reber, Assistant Director for Intelligence Coordination, to the Deputy Director (Intelligence). It says Air Force analysis through ATIC had explained all but 20 per cent of about 1500 reported sightings, and that OSI found no evidence the saucers were Soviet-made or Soviet-controlled. It concludes that fundamental scientific research is the Defense Department's responsibility and proposes a letter from the DCI to Secretary Lovett.
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# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020011-8 Security Information 5. Conclusions: a. The instigation of fundamental scientific research is the primary responsibility of the Defense Department. b. The DCI should dispatch to Secretary Lovett along the lines of the attached. The cover sheet explaining to the IAC why the proposed letter is submitted is also attached (We shared discussion this draft + the idea with A-2 before IAC) c. It is far too early in view of the present state of our knowledge regarding Flying Saucers for psychological warfare planners to start planning how the United States might use U.S. Flying Saucers against the enemy. d. When intelligence has submitted the National Estimate on Flying Saucers there will be the time and basis for a public policy to reduce or restrain mass hysteria. 25X1A JAMES Q. REBER Assistant Director Intelligence Coordination
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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.