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This Central Intelligence Agency file, released in 2025, collects 1968 cable traffic and dispatches between CIA headquarters' Western Hemisphere Division and the JMWAVE station about AMBUD dependency payments to families of Bay of Pigs brigade members. It covers closing trust accounts held by the agent AMTIKI-1, settling the account of a dead brigade member's mother, and handing case administration to MHMUTUAL. It also contains 1960 financial reports of the Democratic Revolutionary Front. The file has no UFO content.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency release dated 2025-06-12 under the JFK Act. It collects 1975 newspaper and magazine clippings. They include Mark Harris's New York Times Magazine essay on a UCLA "Conspiracy in America" conference and the conspiracy-theory mindset, a Jack Anderson column on stalled CIA reform, and wire reports of Richard Helms calling CBS newsman Daniel Schorr "Killer" after he testified to the Rockefeller Commission. There is also an essay on power and a publishing item about Philip Agee's book.
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA release, dated 2025-06-12, collects 1976 CIA paperwork on Harold Weisberg's request (76-F-382) for records on Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes routing slips, an Operations Staff memorandum listing releasable press items and exempt cables, dispatches and memoranda, and a CI Staff reply citing a 1968 Office of Security memo on Coretta Scott King. It also contains a 16 May 1968 memo to the FBI reporting that Gerald Lee Richards, investigated in Japan, did not resemble suspect James Earl Ray.
This CIA release, dated 2025-06-12, is a file of newspaper and magazine clippings from April and May 1975. They cover former CIA Director Richard Helms testifying before the Rockefeller Commission on alleged CIA assassination plots and denouncing CBS reporter Daniel Schorr. Other items include commentary defending or questioning the Warren Commission, calls to reopen the Kennedy assassination case, a book review, and L. Fletcher Prouty's account of a CIA team sent to kill Fidel Castro. None of the clippings concern UFOs.
This is the National Intelligence Survey Gazetteer for Mexico, published by the Central Intelligence Agency in March 1956 and prepared by the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior. It contains about 53,000 entries for places and features in Mexico. It gives official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names along with unapproved variant names, and lists coordinates, feature designations and map references. It is marked for official use only and has no UFO content.
This Central Intelligence Agency file on Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, approved for release in 2026, collects cables, trace requests and index cards from 1965 to 1971. They follow his capture during an infiltration of Cuba from the Dominican Republic around December 1964 and his Havana television appearance, which JMWAVE judged demoralizing for exiles. Other cables cover an Army intelligence (ACSI) operation linked to him and letters he later smuggled out of Cuban prisons. The file does not discuss UFOs.
This Top Secret study by the Interdepartmental Coordinating Group on Germany and Berlin, dated July 12, 1961, and released by the Central Intelligence Agency, answers NSC Directive No. 58 of June 30, 1961. It sets out courses of action for the Berlin crisis but does not judge their merits. It covers imminent presidential decisions, a three-phase timetable running to January 1, military preparations and mobilization, covert action, economic sanctions, public information, negotiating positions and checkpoint procedures for East German personnel.
This Central Intelligence Agency historical essay, of unknown date, profiles the first three Directors of Central Intelligence: Sidney Souers, Hoyt Vandenberg and Roscoe Hillenkoetter. It describes their reluctance to serve, the setup of the Central Intelligence Group, the push for the National Security Act and the CIA Act of 1949, and criticism of Hillenkoetter's leadership. It notes that Hillenkoetter served on the board of NICAP, a civilian UFO group, from 1957 to 1962.
This is a CIA office memorandum dated 31 July 1950 from the Assistant Director for Operations to the Management Officer, on a proposed realignment of agency functions. The Office of Operations advises against a general reorganization unless there is clearer evidence that it would benefit CIA, and comments on each recommendation. The phrase "flying saucer" appears only as a joke, describing NSC 50 as "orbiting between the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom." The memo contains no UFO content.
This Central Intelligence Agency file is a compilation of Top Secret Director's Log entries from September and December 1951. The entries are daily reports from CIA offices such as OSO, OPC and OO on covert operations and intelligence matters. They cover leaflet drops over mainland China, agent teams sent into Albania and Bulgaria, plans for defector detention centers in Panama, liaison with British, French and Spanish services, and the opening of the Trotsky papers at Harvard. None of the entries mentions UFOs.
These are CIA minutes of the Deputies' Meeting held Monday, 18 August 1952, with General Smith, Wisner, Wolf and Becker present, released through the agency's Historical Collections. Mr. Wolf reported on the Career Management Program and got the Director's approval for Col. White to attend the ADs meetings. Mr. Becker described a conversation with Col. Todd, USAF, about Air Force views on the FTC report. He also said OSI would give a briefing on flying saucers in the Director's Conference Room on 20 August.
This is a CIA record of the Director of Central Intelligence's Deputies' Meeting held Thursday, 4 December 1952, attended by General Smith, Dulles, Wisner, Wolf, Amory and Earman. Participants covered project approvals, a cable from a senior representative, and items for the IAC. Mr. Amory briefly discussed preparing an estimate on flying saucers, noting others could not assist because of workload, and the Director asked him to raise the matter at that day's IAC meeting. The release is heavily redacted.
These are minutes of a Central Intelligence Agency Director's Deputies' Meeting held on Friday, 5 December 1952, with General Smith, Mr. Dulles, Mr. Wisner, Mr. Amory and others present. They cover attendance at a meeting on the French labor question, a planned meeting with a Colonel G., and arrangements for a briefing room for General Eisenhower. Mr. Amory also reported that the IAC had accepted a proposal to set up a committee of scientists to study the flying saucer problem further.
These are Central Intelligence Agency minutes of a Deputies Meeting held Wednesday, 10 December 1952, attended by General Smith, Dulles, Wisner, Wolf, Hedden, Amory and Earman. General Smith asked Mr. Amory to prepare a brief memorandum of about three paragraphs on flying saucers, so that he could discuss the subject with the President on 12 December. The remaining items cover unrelated business. These include propaganda about the Rosenbergs' sentence, a possible defection at the UN, a JCS evaluation study and CAT aircraft transport.
These are CIA minutes of the Director's Deputies' Meeting held on Friday, 12 December 1952 with General Smith, released through the Historical Collections Division. The deputies discussed several matters. General Smith said a memorandum from AD/SI on flying saucers did not give him the information he wanted. The meeting agreed to delay his report to the President on the subject until 19 December, after an Air Technical Intelligence Committee meeting at Wright-Patterson. The FBI asked to be kept informed, and the Rosenberg matter was also raised.
This Central Intelligence Agency record contains the minutes of a Deputies' Meeting held on Wednesday, 14 January 1953, with Messrs. Dulles, Wisner, Wolf, Becker, Hedden and Earman present. Dulles noted a Log item about a conference on unidentified flying objects and said he wanted to meet briefly with the people attending it. The other items covered the Office of Training paper, reserve officers doing active duty with CIA, Soviet comments on a Washington Post editorial, and a Summary Evaluation paper for the NSC.
This is a secret memorandum for the Director of Central Intelligence from Colonel Donald H. Galloway, Assistant Director for Special Operations. It summarizes a conference held at the FBI on 18 July 1946 about handing responsibility for intelligence coverage in Latin America from the FBI to the Central Intelligence Group. The two agencies agreed to form joint working committees to identify FBI assets that could be transferred. The committees' work would lead to a coordinated takeover plan that avoids gaps in operations.
This is National Intelligence Estimate 11-5-61, Soviet Technical Capabilities in Guided Missiles and Space Vehicles. It was submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence and concurred in by the United States Intelligence Board on 25 April 1961. The estimate assesses Soviet surface-to-air, antimissile, air-to-air, air-to-surface, ballistic, ICBM, naval and space programs. It concludes that the first Soviet ICBM unit was probably operational around 1 January 1960. It also says there is no evidence the Soviets are developing offensive space weapons. It contains no UFO material.
This is a CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, published in Washington in 1992 and approved for release in 2011. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974, which developed and flew the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. It traces the U-2's development, the overflights of the Soviet Union, the downing of Francis Gary Powers on 1 May 1960, and later operations. One section is titled U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated December 1961, sends a verbatim translation of a Soviet article from the TOP SECRET version of the journal Military Thought. The article, "The Theory of Military Art Needs Review" by Colonel-General A. Gastilovich, appeared in the first 1960 issue. It argues that nuclear missiles call for short "blitz" wars, smaller ground forces and missile troops as the main arm. It has no UFO content.
This CIA dispatch, dated 8 September 1958 and released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, answers a name trace request on Josef Flachslander, born 3 February 1900. It sends on the results of a Berlin Document Center check on him and reports that the station's files hold no traces. It adds that a further records check needs the branch of service he served in and, if possible, his rank in a specific year. The UFO heading is an OCR misreading.
This declassified Central Intelligence Agency cable from Pullach, dated 27 October 1957, was released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It says UPSWING found no derogatory traces on the Deutsche Indische Studiengesellschaft, which was founded in Stuttgart in January 1951. Sources believe the vice president and treasurer of its Berlin branch, Werner Glasenapp among them, are Eastern agents. It also reports that Glasenapp offered to recruit for the Federal Republic, and it asks Berlin for advice. The cable has no connection to unidentified flying objects.
This Central Intelligence Agency name trace file was released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and centers on Lothar Greil. It includes a 6 April 1956 request from the 7982 USAREUR Liaison Group asking for file searches on about ten individuals, among them Greil, Erich Kernmayer and Angela Witte. The CIA base replies quote file extracts saying Greil became president of the "Association of Harmed and Threatened by Communism" in Munich. They also describe Kernmayer as a writer and former officer. The file contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, found in the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act file on Emil Hoffmann and declassified in 2007, is badly garbled in the scan. It appears to go to the Chief of Base, Berlin, and forwards copies of correspondence named in an earlier reference, including memos and a letter that answered an All Agency Check Form. The text says nothing about any UFO sighting, even though a routing line reads "UFOs."
This Central Intelligence Agency secret cable, dated 13 January 1960 and declassified in 2008 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is part of the agency's file on Amin el Husseini. It says the Grand Mufti had been in Baghdad for some time on a trip arranged by the Iraqi military attache in Beirut and was asking the UAR for permission to return to Cairo. It also notes the UAR's belief that he had no more than a dozen loyal followers in Gaza.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified in 2008 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is a page from the Zsolt Aradi files with a largely illegible cover dispatch and an attachment to EGMA-30009. The attachment passes on Gehlen Organization information about Hungarian émigrés, including Zsoltan Arady, former colonel Jenoe Puy, and suspected AVH agent Bela Jarvas. It covers their reported intelligence links, Jarvas's claimed escape from Hungary, his Radio Free Europe connection and his Munich newspaper. It contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency reference form abstracts a 9 January 1950 document on Hungarian emigre groups in Central Europe. It was cross filed in 1954 and declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The quoted German-language excerpt concerns the Hungarian veterans' association MHBSZ and says Gyorgy Kollenyi was a former Hungarian military attache and intelligence officer. It says he worked for US intelligence, which made the association's leadership resentful. The document has no UFO content.
This is a CIA-released report from Detachment 35 on Operation WARY TOR-1118, dated 20 April 1951, declassified in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It describes a 17 April 1951 interview in Mattsee, Austria, with Korponay, a former chief of staff to General Zako of a Hungarian emigre organization. He explained why he split with Zako and proposed a resistance and courier network into Hungary. The report assesses him and recommends a limited subsidy. It has nothing to do with UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, declassified in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is a September 1954 routing sheet that forwards a set of source reports. They describe a source's meetings with a contact named Richter from January to August 1954. The source passed Richter reports on émigré groups, including Polish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian ones, and was paid 200 DM a month. The legible text contains no discussion of UFO or UAP sightings.
This is a CIA page from the Michael Korzhan file, volume 2. It was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The page carries a date stamp of December 13, 1956, but the rest of the scanned text is badly garbled and mostly unreadable. It seems to mention UFOs, but the text as extracted does not support any clear subject, finding or conclusion.
This undated, secret Central Intelligence Agency debriefing memo to the Chief, CSOB, records the life story of Clevland O. Hahn, a Latvian born in 1919. It covers his family and pre-war life, the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia, his anti-communist resistance group at the Jelgava Academy, and his post-war activities in Sweden. An appendix gives numbered biographic notes on Latvian emigres, intelligence figures and police officers. The document contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency file from the Ludtke, Wilhelm Karl special collection, declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains a routing sheet and a dispatch from the Chief of Base, Berlin to Chief, EE dated October 1955. The dispatch records an oral contract under the BECRIPPLE project engaging an individual from 1 October 1955 at a monthly salary of 500 DM West, with expenses, per diem limits and termination terms. It does not concern UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains a routing and record sheet and a dispatch from the Chief of the EE division to the Chief of Station, Germany, with a copy for Berlin, dated 6 December 1955. The poorly legible dispatch covers the handling of a source, including whether he should take a test, repayment of missing funds, and a termination gratuity. It does not discuss any UFO incident.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is an Allied Military Government application form, in English and German, for a temporary travel document or exit permit, dated 1950. The applicant is Jon Margarit, who was born in Romania and is listed as Rumanian at birth. The form gives his father's and mother's names and nationalities and lists his occupation as a free-lance journalist. It was declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It contains no UFO or UAP content.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency classified cable dated 25 November 1952, sent from the Director of CIA to a field station. It sits in the agency's file on Boris Ragula. The garbled text sets out operational guidance: headquarters approval requirements, the need for plans for operations affecting third countries, and a reference to penetration targets of greatest interest. It was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It contains no UFO material.
This is a CIA pouch dispatch dated 24 March 1954, sent by the Chief of Mission in Frankfurt to the Chief of BOB. It was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and filed with the Arno Scholz records. It lists special connections that the Mission Project Review Board reviewed and approved for continued contact because they cost little in time and money. Some approvals carry qualifications, including a warning to use caution given the connections' official ties. The dispatch does not discuss UFOs.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 February 1952, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act from the Sergie Shebalin file. It is a poor-quality scan. It says the subject has found work in Vienna and has accepted the cover arrangement suggested in a referenced message, and that documentation will be secured as soon as possible. A note for Frankfurt only mentions documents needed to provide the cover. The text says nothing about unidentified aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency incoming classified message dated 24 March 1953 comes from a file on Sergie Shebalin. It was declassified and released in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It is a brief routine cable in which a source with the cryptonym GRALLSPICE 1 asks that his wife receive 655 DM as an allotment for March. The document has no connection to UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
This is a corrected copy of a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 5 May 1952, declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The OCR text is badly garbled. It relays source information that Yaroslav Stetsko was allegedly trying to enter the United States from Canada. It asks whether headquarters has been able to alert Canadian authorities, and it recommends that any pseudonym or false papers be checked if Stetsko arrives in the U.S.
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 25 February 1971, records name trace results on Yaroslav Stetsko, identified as president of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and chairman of the European Freedom Council, and a former prime minister of Ukraine. It lists his aliases, birth details and wife, reports no traces on one paragraph of the query, and cites earlier agency documents from 1958 and 1960. It does not concern UFOs.
This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from a Chief of Station to the Chief, Foreign Division, released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It assesses the operational potential of the Hungarian emigre group led by Andras Zako, including its KOPJAS and MHBK elements. It reports that the group passed off refugee debriefings as agent reports, and it concludes that the group is politically worthless and unfit to serve as an intelligence or resistance network. The "UFO" in the text is an OCR error, not a reference to aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 21 November 1960, was released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It reports a source's trip to Salzburg about a group of Hungarians linked to Andreas Zako. The source said the group's headquarters is in Innsbruck and that the French seem to have cut Zako's budget. It also says the group was selling information to any buyer and working in the black market. In this document "UFO" is the name of the Hungarian group and has nothing to do with unidentified flying objects.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is part of the collection CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1949-56, Volume 2, in the section on ZIPPER operations and counterintelligence. It contains early 1950s memoranda on Russian, Ukrainian and other emigre groups, a plan for a stay-behind network and for evacuating ODEUM staff if war broke out, a JUPITER status report dated 16 April 1951, and evaluations of Zipper reports. It does not discuss UFOs.
This declassified CIA dispatch, dated 16 April 1953 and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, sets out plans for closing the KIBITZ-15 agent net in Germany. It lists the agents to be debriefed in Stuttgart, Würzburg, the Pfalz and Cologne. It also gives the debriefing questions, the quit claims agents must sign pledging silence, the return of equipment and DM 100 goodwill bonuses. It proposes a special settlement for KIBITZ-150 and contains no UFO material.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency classified cable dated 6 February 1957, sent from the Director to Munich and filed in the QKACTIVE project file. It asks the Munich station to identify and evaluate the sources behind a UFO memo numbered 5-57 and dated 29 January. It also asks Munich to say whether the memo was distributed anywhere else. The document was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency classified cable dated 22 July 1957, filed under QKACTIVE. It was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The message says headquarters received an overt request to hire a person and that records show the person is still on another party's payroll. It asks whether the request has been approved. Nothing in the text concerns unidentified flying objects, even though the routing line contains the word UFO.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency incoming classified message dated 24 February 1949, sent from Heidelberg to Policy Coordination in Washington and filed in the QKDEMON project outline. The cable asks for authorization to pay a lieutenant money owed to him for the period from 25 November 1948 to 25 February 1949. It was declassified and released in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The text contains nothing about UFO sightings.
This Central Intelligence Agency document is an undated secret memorandum about a travel advance. It was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 2007. It records a travel advance of about $48.39 made to Willard M. Staley in London, England, and lists the ways the advance could be repaid or accounted for. It also says that any future advances must be accounted for to the Chief of Station. The distribution line includes a garbled entry that reads "UFO", but the memo contains no UFO content.
This CIA document, from the OBOPUS BGFIEND operations files, is a SECRET covering memo and attached proposal written ahead of a meeting with a cryptonymed partner service. It argues that the Albanian exile National Committee is too narrowly based. It proposes broadening the committee to include other exile parties, and it warns that subsidies would be withdrawn from resisting factions. It also raises possible liaison with Yugoslav-dominated refugee groups. The document does not concern UFOs. It was declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 2007.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 4 December 1953 and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, forwards a letter from Mrs. Page Johnson asking about the wife and son of a cryptonymed individual living in Alexandria, Egypt, along with the reply. The dispatch discusses a customs bill of about 9,400 Egyptian pounds, a reported hostile campaign by Uruguayan Communists, and whether the family could obtain exit visas. It contains no UFO material.