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This Central Intelligence Agency file, from the OBOPUS BGFIEND operations volume and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains a secret dispatch dated 14 December 1953. It forwards a copy of a letter to a Mr. Yarborough, who is being held in Egypt over customs charges. The letter asks about rumors of a Communist campaign against him and damage to his Long Island estate. It suggests that his wife and son leave Egypt and asks for details of his negotiations over roughly 10,000 L.E. in duties. It does not discuss UFOs.
This declassified Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from the Chief of Base, Munich, dated 15 April 1954, transmits a peripheral report to Headquarters under separate cover. The cover sheet labels the material UFOs and describes the report as an advance copy prepared by a source and possibly of interest to Headquarters. The report itself is not included in the text. The release stamp shows it was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This CIA file, whose date is not given, contains a secret debriefing report on a 1960 tourist trip to the Soviet Union. The traveler, a Library of Congress employee, went to Moscow, Kiev and Lviv in September 1960. The report includes an operational diary, biographical information on contacts, material on intelligence requirements, and transcripts of Ukrainian Radio interviews. The briefer's comments call the operation successful and say the traveler detected Soviet surveillance. The document does not discuss UFOs.
This is a secret CIA dispatch dated 24 January 1961, sent from the Chief of Base, Frankfurt, to the Chief, SR and COS Germany under the AERODYNAMIC project. It plans how the agent AECASSOWARY 29 should operate at 1961 international trade fairs, including those in Vienna and Basel. The plan concentrates on fairs where Soviet Ukrainians would have pavilions, using collaborators to make first contacts and keeping the agent in the background for recruitment. It was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and filed under the AERODYNAMIC project, replies to two April 1966 references about Ivan Kolaska of Toronto. It gives Headquarters information from source AECASSOWARY/2 on Ivan Yaremko, a Chicago lawyer who traveled to Soviet Ukraine and suggested Kolaska was probably a Soviet agent. It weighs whether Kolaska's KGB arrest in Kiev was genuine or staged and asks the Canadian service to protect the sources. It does not discuss UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from the Chief of Base, Munich, dated 2 May 1960, forwards reports by a source called AEDOGMA-1 on the October 1959 cyanide death of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stefan Bandera. The attachments review five theories: poisoning by German intelligence, by Soviet agents, by Myron Matviyeyko, by Mykola Lebed, or suicide. They also describe interviews with Munich criminal police officer Adrian Fuchs, who said the police were convinced Bandera committed suicide. The document has no UFO content.
This CIA file comes from the Klaus Barbie volume of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act release. It contains classified Central Intelligence Group cable traffic sent from Frankfurt to Special Operations. The messages say the French got no satisfaction on their request for the subject's extradition. They also cover the subject's earlier arrest on suspicion of subversive activities, later work for CIC subregions as an informant considered reliable, and investigations into possible links with a German nationalist subversive group. A second message corrects wording in an earlier report.
This is a CIA name trace reply released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, part of the file on Friedrich Berger. It answers a May 1957 request from the Munich base and is addressed to the Chief of Base, Munich, with copies to the Chief of Station, Germany, and the Chief of Base, Berlin. It reports what headquarters files show on several identities. For one it found no probable traces, for another it needs more biographic data, and for others it points to existing dossiers and interrogation reports.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency incoming classified cable from Berlin to Special Operations in Washington, marked SECRET, part of the agency's Bolschwing file. It proposes having the CIC told that the Bolschwing file cannot be located, which would stall CIC action for the required 90 days. It also says no action was taken in Berlin on a related Pullach message. The cable was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This is a classified cable from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to the SR representative in Salzburg, dated 1 December 1953 and filed in the CIA's Otto von Bolschwing records. Replying to Salzburg message 1994 under the heading INTEL/GROSSBAHN, it says no action is possible until security checks are finished, which are expected by 4 December. The CIA declassified and released the cable under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This is a secret CIA dispatch dated 31 August 1970. It concerns Prince Junio Valerio Borghese and the National Front. It forwards a memo of a conversation between Charles R. Stout and Borghese, held at the Embassy on 26 January 1970. It also attaches a document Borghese gave to Stout, which was itself a copy of a document that unknown persons had given to General Walters. The release came under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The text contains nothing about UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency release contains an FBI transmittal letter signed by J. Edgar Hoover, forwarded to the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans, along with a November 1969 FBI memorandum about Martin Bormann. An informant of unknown reliability claimed Bormann was living in a compound near Asuncion, Paraguay, that had underground laboratories, and gave his opinion that it could be a base for flying saucers. A second source described the informant as a known liar with a criminal record.
This CIA file, declassified and released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains German-language interrogation records of Hans Clemens, held in custody in Koblenz in 1962. In the transcripts, Clemens answers questions about surveillance operations, contacts, and cases he handled for the BND while reporting to Soviet handlers. The records also cover a uranium concentrate sample passed to the BND and decoded radio messages from his Soviet controllers. It does not concern UFOs.
This is a CIA official dispatch dated 23 April 1956, sent from the Chief of the EE division to the Chief of Station and to the Bonn, Berlin and Munich bases. It was released in 2001 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The heavily garbled text answers a request for services for an organization. It says a brochure and program material are being forwarded under separate cover and suggests working with a local representative. Here "UFO" appears only in the routing line, and nothing in the text concerns aerial phenomena.
This is a short, undated CIA dispatch cover sheet classified Secret, filed in Volume 5 of the Reinhard Gehlen collection. It says a personal letter to UTILITY from a sender whose name is redacted is being sent separately by true name pouch, and it asks the recipient to deliver the letter to UTILITY. The sheet lists the attachment and gives distribution to COB/H and COB/G. It does not mention UFOs or any aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 5 October 1971 and released in 2005 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is filed in the agency's Reinhard Gehlen collection. Its subject is Gehlen's memoirs, and it forwards recent newspaper articles on publication arrangements for the U.S. rights to Gehlen's book. The attachment went to the base and station chiefs. The dispatch has nothing to do with unidentified flying objects.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, gathers biographical index cards on Albanian Communist leader Enver Hoxha. The entries cover the years 1943 to 1954. They record his roles as Prime Minister, Commander in Chief and party Secretary-General, his trips to Moscow and his relations with Tito and Yugoslavia. They also note rumored rifts with Mehmet Shehu and Tuk Jakova, the 1951 Tirana bombing, and his giving up the premiership in July 1954. The file contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is an undated interrogation report on Hans Joachim Leyer, a Danzig police and Gestapo official. It traces his career from shipping work to Kriminalkommissar and SS rank, and his 1945 role running an Amt VI Auffangstelle in Danzig for returning Kommandos. It covers his evacuation to Schwerin, the RSHA setup there, his custody, and appendices describing RSHA personnel. It contains nothing about UFOs.
This undated Central Intelligence Agency memorandum was sent to the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in reply to a request for derogatory information on Nicolae Malaxa, a Romanian industrialist. It reviews certified Romanian records supplied in 1949 on Malaxa's behalf. It covers claims that he collaborated with Germany, his links to the Iron Guard and his arrest after the 1941 revolt, and compensation arranged by the Communist-dominated government. It also reports his continued financial support of exile groups. The document contains no UFO material.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 August 1985 and sent to Washington. It forwards news clippings and magazine articles on Josef Mengele, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The attachments include an Argentine magazine report on claims that Mengele lived in La Banda, Santiago del Estero, as Adolfo Gualterio Ascher, along with an interview with the judge investigating those claims. They also include a newspaper article on Mengele's protection in Paraguay and on past efforts to extradite him. The file has no UFO content.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 20 May 1953, went from the Chief of Base in Berlin to the Chief of Mission in Frankfurt. It concerns the LOCASSOCK project and Helmut Ernst Julius Ohlbrecht. It quotes two earlier reports saying Ohlbrecht was suggested to Dr. Otto John to head a special BFV office, and that he was also working as a ZIPPER agent. The dispatch calls the security implications extremely risky and asks for comments. It was declassified in 2005 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This undated Central Intelligence Agency cable, headquarters message DIR 19374, concerns a person named Ostrovsky and comes from the CIA's records on Radislaw Ostrowsky. Headquarters suggests he visit the United States soon, because the current chief of station is due to rotate out. The cable judges Ostrovsky at least opportunistic. As a basis for any deal, it proposes full control of his operation and agents or complete security clearance of his staff, and it asks for an assessment of his cooperation, including from the British. The text is a poor OCR scan.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch dated 16 June 1954, declassified in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, forwards two informant reports on Czech emigre affairs from Milosch Svoboda of General Prchala's Czech National Committee. They cover Prchala's refusal to join the ABN, a claim that Vladimir Pekelsky is paid DM 5,000 monthly by a German intelligence agency, the disappearance of Jaroslav Novak, and exile leadership disputes. The document contains no UFO material.
This is a detailed interrogation report prepared in July 1945 by SCI Unit A of the Office of Strategic Services in Salzburg, Austria. The CIA later released it under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Its subject is Johann Sanitzer of the Vienna Gestapo, arrested on 7 June 1945. The report records his biography and police career and describes the radio deception games (Funkspiele) he ran with captured Soviet NKVD and Comintern agents. It also covers arrests he made after the 20 July plot. It has no UFO content.
This is a CIA file copy from the Waldemar Seebode file, a dispatch sent by the Chief of Base, Hamburg in September 1959. It forwards a Memorandum of Oral Agreement engaging a subject as an independent contractor under a cryptonymed project. The attachment says the oral contract took effect on 1 March 1959 and pays a monthly salary in Deutsche marks. It also covers security approval and operational expenses, and notes that no provisions exist for death or disability. The document contains no UFO material.
This is a partly legible Central Intelligence Agency classified cable, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and filed in the Waldemar Seebode records. It is dated 25 August 1970 and sent to the Director. It answers earlier Director cables and describes plans to send cables on 2 September. It also mentions arranging alias documentation as a medium-level KPD/ML leader if needed and making a slight change to a suggested text. The cable has no UFO content.
This undated Central Intelligence Agency cover dispatch, a secret base communication from the CIA Nazi war crimes special collection file on Adolf Slavik, forwards a report confirming a Dutch Gelderlander newspaper article of 8 October 1953 about the Social Movement in Austria. Because the files held no traces on Hans Lorenz, the report and article are also being sent to Vienna, and both Headquarters and Vienna are asked for comments. The dispatch thanks Vienna for obtaining a copy of "Der Aufbruch". It contains no UFO material.
This CIA dispatch dated 6 December 1965, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, relays follow-up information from the source CASTROP. It concerns Police Officer School students from Berlin/Charlottenburg and Fuerstenberg/Mecklenburg who served in the SIPO and SD Operational Group under von Woyrsch in Poland in September 1939. It lists detachment members, including Heinrich Spiegelhauer, and asks the Berlin Document Center to trace their assignments for war crimes investigations. It also notes Munich file traces on several individuals.
This FBI Detroit field office report, file 105-478, was released through the Central Intelligence Agency. It covers Bishop Viorel Trifa of the Rumanian Orthodox Church in the United States, and its date is not clear in the text. Informants describe his role in a factional church dispute, his leadership of the American-Rumanian Orthodox Youth, and his past as an Iron Guard leader in Rumania. It also cites a press article that blames him for the January 1941 Bucharest pogrom. The report has no UFO content.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency classified cable dated 23 April 1959, sent from the Director. It was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The OCR text is badly garbled. The cable passes on biographical and trace information about Zoran Vukovic, including wartime service, time in Salzburg, anti-Tito resistance activity, internment and interrogation, and associates named in the file. It has no content about unidentified flying objects.
This is a secret CIA dispatch dated December 1965, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It passes Berlin Document Center record requests from a source called CASTROP. The requests concern the SIPO and SD Operational Group with the 14th Army, which operated in Poland in September 1939 under Udo von Woyrsch. The dispatch lists members of a Special SIPO Detachment drawn from police officer schools and asks where they served afterward, in support of war crimes investigations. It also notes Munich file traces on some of the individuals.
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, forwards copies of British interrogation reports from about December 1949. The main report covers a defector from the East German Volkspolizei school at Prenzlau and describes its strength, weapons, artillery training, staff and political character, with captured training documents attached. Another report describes the Sachsenhausen camp under Russian administration, including its guards, food, housing, medical care and death rate. The text contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency outgoing cable, dated 22 March 1975 and addressed to Saigon and Phnom Penh, reports that Air America chief executive Paul Velte had returned from Vietnam hopeful that air and ground personnel would stay through the contract. It notes that events in Vietnam had overtaken his information, asks for details and suggestions, and stresses Phnom Penh's reliance on Air America for evacuation. It also reports a State decision on a follow-on contract with Air Vietnam. The cable contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency dossier on Cuban exile leader Manuel Ray Rivero was released in 2023 under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act. It contains biographical sketches of Ray as Castro's Minister of Public Works and later leader of the MRP and JURE, a 1965 report on his views of anti-Castro tactics, a Spanish report on his 1965 Madrid visit, and 1977 cables answering an FBI request. Those cables note he was declared persona non grata in Jamaica in December 1976.
This is a CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, written in 1992 and approved for release in 2011. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and its two aircraft, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. It follows their development, the overflights of the Soviet Union, the downing of Francis Gary Powers in 1960, and later operations. One section is titled "U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK."
This is a CIA Office of Research and Reports contribution to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-64, dated 6 October 1964, on the capabilities of Soviet general-purpose forces from 1964 to 1970. It updates evidence on Soviet doctrine for theater warfare, the effect of low wartime birth rates on military conscription and the labor supply, tactical missile systems, the Soviet and Satellite tactical air forces, and Soviet naval submarine, surface and air forces. The report does not mention unidentified flying objects.
This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) material collects Israeli radio and press coverage of the Middle East peace talks from September 1978. It includes Prime Minister Begin's address to the nation before the Camp David summit and his airport statement on departure. It also contains opposition and Peace Now reactions, an interview with Moshe Arens and Hayyim Bar-Lev, parts of the Knesset debate on the Camp David accords, and remarks on Yamit settlers. The document makes no mention of UFOs.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency release of Foreign Broadcast Information Service coverage of the Middle East peace talks from December 1977. It collects British, Israeli and Soviet press and radio items on President as-Sadat's initiative and the planned Cairo conference. It also covers Prime Minister Begin's visit to London, Secretary of State Vance's regional tour and the Knesset debate on the peace plan. It contains no material on unidentified aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum of 18 December 1961, sent to the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, encloses a verbatim translation of a Soviet article from the top secret 1960 first issue of the special collection of Military Thought. In the article, Colonel-General A. Gastilovich argues that nuclear missiles call for revising Soviet military doctrine. He favors short blitz operations, smaller ground forces and new rescue troops. It mentions "flying saucers" only as ground effect machines for army aviation.
This is an October 1968 contribution by the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Strategic Research to National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-68 on Soviet and East European general purpose forces. It covers Warsaw Pact war plans for Central Europe, the effects of the Czechoslovak crisis, and the doubling of Soviet forces on the Chinese border since 1965. It also assesses ground, tactical air, naval and coastal defense forces. The text does not mention UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
This is Volume II, Part 1 of the CIA History Staff's Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation, a Top Secret history dated October 1979 and approved for release in July 2011. It looks at how the Agency took part in shaping US foreign policy toward Guatemala and Nicaragua during the anti-Castro program. It covers dealings with President Ydigoras Fuentes and Roberto Alejos, training sites such as Retalhuleu, cover stories, and negotiations with the Somoza brothers for an air base and port. It contains no UFO material.
This is part of Volume II of the CIA History Staff's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation, covering participation in the conduct of foreign policy, dated October 1979 and approved for release in 2011. The appendixes reproduce CIA and State Department cables on the November 1960 Guatemalan army revolt, including Guatemalan requests for arms, ammunition and air surveillance, memorandums on Special Forces trainers, and part of a 1971 oral history interview with Ambassador John J. Muccio. It contains no UFO material.
This CIA Oral History Program transcript records former Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms interviewed by R. Jack Smith on 21 April 1982, approved for release in March 2008. Helms disputes criticism in the Rockefeller Commission Report and discusses the Oxcart aircraft, Watergate and the Plumbers, the war in Laos, and allegations about National Estimates. He also recalls warning President Johnson before the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and passing on warnings of the 1973 Yom Kippur war. It contains no UFO material.
This CIA FOIA release contains an April 1968 dispatch, UFGA-29877, summarizing how Cuban media covered the assassination of Martin Luther King from 5 to 8 April. The dispatch quotes Granma and Havana radio stations, including statements by Stokely Carmichael and others that call for revolutionary violence. The release also includes May 1971 cables and a memo to the FBI on Americans at the World Peace Council conference in Budapest, where King was posthumously awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal.
This is the Central Intelligence Agency's President's Daily Brief for 6 February 1968, released in 2019. It reports renewed fighting in Saigon during the Tet offensive and South Korean anger over the Pueblo incident. It also covers Arab frustration with UN emissary Jarring, Soviet advisers in Egypt, the war in Yemen, the Panama election campaign and the British economy. A Special Daily Report on North Vietnam covers Hanoi's rejection of the San Antonio formula, shipping deliveries and AN-2 aircraft. The brief does not mention UFOs.
This CIA file holds a UPI newspaper clipping, marked Daily News and dated November 4, 1966, from Parkersburg, West Virginia. It reports that salesman Woodrow Derenberger held a press conference, with police and an Air Force representative listening, about meeting a "spaceman" on Interstate 77 while he was driving home from Marietta, Ohio. Derenberger said a dark, long object blocked the highway and a man stepped out of it. He said the man spoke with him for 5 to 10 minutes by telepathy and told him to have no fear.
This Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence assessment, dated January 1985, examines how Warsaw Pact air forces would support large strategic operations in Central Europe. It concludes that the Soviets see NATO air power as the greatest threat to a Pact ground offensive. They revised their air supremacy plans in 1980 and 1981 to use sector-concentrated raids and a defensive air operation. The assessment also finds that heavy aircraft losses and limited deep attack capability would remain serious problems. The document has no UFO content.
This is Volume II of National Intelligence Estimate 11-14-79, Warsaw Pact Forces Opposite NATO, issued by the Director of Central Intelligence and dated January 1979. The National Foreign Intelligence Board concurred with it. It was the first comprehensive estimate of Pact forces facing NATO since 1971. It covers Pact doctrine, the ground, air, naval, nuclear and chemical forces, command and control, and campaign plans for war in Europe. It judges that Central Europe would be the decisive arena, and it lists Pact weaknesses in pilot training and antisubmarine warfare. The document contains no UFO material.