Documents / FOIA release
This CIA memorandum for the record, dated 16 May 1958 and written by the Assistant to the Legislative Counsel, describes a meeting between CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence and Air Force representatives about unidentified flying objects. The Air Force planned a press release to dispel the mystery around the 1953 flying saucer report and a reply to Dr. Leon Davidson, with references to CIA convening the panel deleted. The Air Force also raised concern about Admiral Hillenkoetter's association with Major Kehoe's group.
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# Approved For Release 2004/07/09: CIA-RDP91-00965R000400050068-8 5. Several other points were discussed during the meeting, the most important of which was the matter of Admiral Hillenkoetter's association with a group headed by a Major Kehoe. The Air Force feels that Major Kehoe's organization is keeping this subject in the public eye and that the position which it has taken is not entirely sound. They also feel rather strongly that Admiral Hillenkoetter's connection with this organization gives it considerable prestige and they seriously doubt that the Admiral is aware of the position which this organization has taken concerning the UFO report. The CIA representatives agreed to look into this and consider approaching Admiral Hillenkoetter on it. Aside from this, no further action is required by CIA until the Air Force draft news release is forwarded to us for coordination. Assistant to the Legislative Counsel Distribution: O - Sen. Govt. Operations File 1 - A-DD/S 1-Col. Grogan
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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.