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This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated 8 August 1955 and released in 2001, went from the Chief of the Physics and Electronics Division to the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It notes that the division had kept track of UFO sighting reports since 1953, spending 10 to 25 analyst hours a month on the work. Because no intelligence of concern to national security had come out of the project, the memo recommends ending it and putting its files in dead storage. A routing slip signed by Herbert Scoville approves the proposal.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP TO INITIALS DATE 1 Chief, P&E/SI 9/7 no. 2 Col. white. 3 In accordance with AD/SI note, can you arrange to properly store the old files? 4 no. 5 no. FROM INITIALS DATE 1 AD/SI 2 3 APPROVAL INFORMATION SIGNATURE ACTION DIRECT REPLY RETURN COMMENT PREPARATION OF REPLY DISPATCH CONCURRENCE RECOMMENDATION FILE ## Remarks: Approve proposal. The project might be tickled again when program is revised if any new information develops, perhaps in connection with satellite program 25X1A HERBERT SCOVILLE, JRV 2001/04/02 CIA RDP81R00560R00010008005
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.