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This undated National Security Agency memorandum for the record, addressed to D4, contains a chronology written by an employee who checked in at Fort Meade in July 1978. The employee reports telling NSA officials about their UFO interests and attending the Mutual UFO Network 1978 UFO Symposium in Dayton, Ohio. There they judged letters shown publicly by Robert Barry to be fraudulent, and NSA later confirmed this. The memo also describes a phone call in which a UFO researcher asked for help finding UFO information inside NSA. The employee says they turned the request down.
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The following is reported for the record. Background information is provided to maintain perspective. Monday, 10 July. 1978 Checked aboard Ft. Meade Friday, 21 July I explained my association with UFOS to my supervisors and contacted (former S1 staff) who inturn arranged an appointment with of D4. Monday, 24 July Discussed UFO status with D4 concluding that I understand my position, and that NSA prefers that I keep an extremely low profile. Wednesday, 26 July Had a security brief by M5 where I explained my position on UFO matters and related that I had checked with D4 on this and that I had an understanding of my position relating UFOs, NSA and me. Discussed UFOs at length. NOTE: Upon checking into a command I do not generally surface this problem till I am settled in but in this case I was due to attend a UFO Symposium in Dayton, Ohio on the 29th and 30th of July and thought it proper to notify NSA because of the remote possibility of the symposium getting some national media coverage and the possibility that my name or photograph might be associated with such coverage. Saturday and Sunday. 29-30 July Attended the Mutual UFO Network 1978 UFO Symposium, Dayton, Ohio. On Saturday a program was presented by a Mr. Stringfield and as an adjunct he introduced a Mr. Robert Barry. Barry discussed, and showed publicly, two letters he allegedly My immediate opinion was that the letters were fraudulent. Sunday I was introduced to Mr. Stringfield and requested copies of the letters. I explained that I felt that the letters were frauds and that I thought I could possibly have them checked out. Thursdav. 3 August Contacted NSA on the matter of the letters, who inturn referred me to requested I provide them with copies of the letters, which I did, wherein they eventually
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Memo, from the nsa 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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.