Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated May 27, 1953, went from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division of OSI. It was approved for release in 2001. It puts that division in charge of keeping current knowledge of reported unidentified flying object sightings, and it asks the Applied Science Division to support it on weapons and hardware. It also says where the existing UFO files are held and suggests the division take custody of the files it needs.
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Approved F Release 2001/08/07 CLARP81R00 R000100030013-5 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN
TO : Chief, Physics and Electronics Division/OSI DATE: MAY 27 1953
FROM : Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence
SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects
1. Responsibility for maintaining current knowledge of reports of sightings of unidentified flying objects is hereby assigned to your division. By carbon copy of this memorandum, Chief of the Applied Science Division is requested to provide support from a weapons and hardware standpoint.
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2. Major files on U. F. O.'s are located in Air Branch, Applied Science Division. A file of key documents and administrative papers are on file in the Operations Staff office. of IPS is presently the custodian of certain files on this subject which were transferred to IPS from O/CI. It is suggested that Physics and Electronics Division take over custody of such of these files as are necessary for it to fulfill the above responsibility. The Division should also arrange through so that material on this subject being forwarded from O/CI will be routed directly to Physics and Electronics Division.
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H. MARSHALL CHADWELL
OSI/
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Distribution:
Orig and 1 - Addressee
1 - Reqts/SI
1 - IPS/SI
1 - ASD / SI take one centar,
2-AD/SI
1 - Subject file
1 - Daily reading file
1 - Chrono
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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.