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CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90

CIA (Gerald Haines) · 1997 · 18 pages · text from the file's own layer

This 1997 study by Gerald K. Haines, National Reconnaissance Office historian, traces CIA interest in UFOs from the late 1940s to 1990 using Agency records compiled after DCI R. James Woolsey ordered a 1993 file review. It covers Air Force projects SIGN, GRUDGE and BLUE BOOK, the 1953 Robertson panel, U-2 and OXCART flights mistaken for UFOs, and disputes with Keyhoe and Davidson. It concludes that Agency concern was substantial until the early 1950s and limited and peripheral since.

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BedellSmithsupposedlyreplaced For
restal on 1August 1950following
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Watch theSkies, pp. 258-268.
Dr. LarryBland, editor of TheGeorge
C.MarshallPapers,discovered that one
of theso-calledMajestic~12docu
ments was acompletefraud. It
contained theexactsamelanguage as a
letter fromMarshall toPresidential
candidateThomasDeweyregarding
the Magic intercepts in 1944. The
dates andnames had beenaltered and
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original. NooriginalMJ-12docu
ments have eversurfaced.Telephone
conversationbetween theauthor and
Bland, 29August 1994.
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