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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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ked me if it would be possible for me to do some looking around at NSA for UFO related information. He further explained that he did not mean covert looking but openly checking on what ever I could. I told him my standard answer, that the only thing I could do was to watch for information and to note its declassification date, then, if it was or would be declassified, I would either request the information myself or queue someone on the outside to request the information from the originator. He brought up the fact that "some things could be declassified simply by asking", suggesting that one can not ask for something that they did not know of its existence. I told him that in that case I would have to work that problem strickly from the inside untill such documents or information was declassified. I went on to explain to him that I work in COMSEC, which term he understood, and that I would have very little opportunity, if any, to ever find out if any such information existed. Further that in my experience with the Navy that in general I had seen very little information of interest to the UFO community and that when I had it was not in an official UFO context. He then explained that he understood that there was certain infomation that he, nor andone else in the civilian community, would ever see because of methods and/or sources, but, for example he knew that the National Command Center had sent UFO information to NSA as part of an address group. All in all he was requesting me to watch out for UFO related information within NSA, which I tend to do on my own, but he was requesting that I pass on what I could. I, all in all, left him with the understanding that I was very limited in what I could do. I have, to some degree, checked on character with some people who have worked with him more closely. There is some thought that he would be capable of being behind the fraud and that he is apt to go to most any length to collect information or to bend facts to fit his needs.
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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.