Documents / Memo
This CIA file, released in 2001, gathers 1952 memoranda from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence, along with draft letters to the Secretary of Defense and the NSC and a briefing on the Air Force position. It concludes that flying saucers carry national security implications, namely mass panic and air defense vulnerability. It recommends expanded scientific research, a public information policy and study of Soviet interest, noting that about 20 percent of roughly 1500 Air Force reports remained unexplained.
“United Press”5 pages
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R01560R000100020012-7 SECRET Security Information Security Information findings affecting their areas of responsibility. c. On the basis of these programs of research, CIA develop and recommend for adoption by the National Security Council a policy of public information which will minimize the risk of panic. H. MARSHALL CRAINEELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence 25X1A OSI bxd (11 September 1952) Orig. & 4 - Addressee 1 - Ad/SI 1 - Daily Reading 1 - Subject 1 - Chrono SECRET Security Information
Memo, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 36 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.