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This Clinton Presidential Library file (NSC Records Management, record 9506127) holds 1995 correspondence from Steven M. Greer and his Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) asking President Clinton to meet with them and to issue an executive order declassifying UFO materials and releasing witnesses from their security oaths. It includes the Project Starlight Coalition letter of June 4, 1995, a list of 35 enclosed documents, CSETI strategy papers and biographies, and a White House reply of August 3, 1995 that forwarded the meeting request.
>IV. The EO would fully utilize the powers of the Presidency to terminate certain 'black projects' activities which appear to be operating out of the constitutional chain of command. While certain aspects of reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology (and other matters) may not be fully accessed through this EO, it would enable definitive witness testimony to be disclosed. Efforts to keep the President, the Executive Branch in general and the Congress 'out of the loop' would thereby be neutralized. POINTS SUPPORTING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO RELEASE WITNESSES FROM NATIONAL SECURITY OATHS AND TO DECLASSIFY DOCUMENTS RELATED TO UFOs/ETI > I. Such an Executive Order (EO) would permit witnesses to speak openly about the historical aspects of the subject without fear of legal action against them. If no substantive information is forthcoming from such witnesses, then at least the 'air would be cleared' on this issue, and if major disclosures are forthcoming then an end to inappropriate secrecy would be effected. /If the President and Executive Branch maintain after such an unsanctioned disclosure that they knew of the subject, but were not connected to the disclosures, the President may be accused of supporting a cover-up, which would be unfair in light of the actual facts of how this subject has been covertly handled. >111. An EO would restore public faith in government in the long run, since such an order would be seen as an act of support of democratic principles, as opposed to the maintenance of the covert status quo. >V. Provided that the disclosure process (as conceived by Project Starlight) avoids xenophobic, fear-inducing and militaristic overtones, the EO would set events in motion which would usher in a new era of global awareness and unity. The world community could begin the long awaited dialogue on the implications and promises of initiating early interplanetary relations. >11. Should significant disclosures occur without an EO, the President would be viewed in one of two equally damaging ways: / If the President and Executive Branch of the US Government maintain that they did not know anything about a subject this important. Presidential stature and credibility would be significantly damaged. >VI. In summary, the risks of not providing an Executive Order on this issue far outweigh the risks of doing so. The benefits of such an issuance are numerous and far-reaching, and would be viewed as a just and moral Presidential act by peoples around the world. 20 March 1995/ Steven M. Greer M.D., CSETI.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 105 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.