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This is a letter dated August 17, 2018 from Timothy S. Cooper to the Central Intelligence Agency FOIA Requester Service Center, filed under reference F-2018-01132. Cooper asks for a status report on his 2 March 2018 FOIA request. That request sought DCI General Walter B. Smith's Weekly Friday Black Book Briefing of 19 December 1952 to President Truman on the subject of "flying saucers", along with any related documents. The CIA stamped the letter received on August 22.
This Central Intelligence Agency internal wiki page, titled Hacker Jargon and approved for release on 4 September 2018, is a glossary of terms and acronyms used by hackers and cyber criminals in underground forums. It defines terms such as BIN, botnets, carding, dumps, mules, phishing, ransomware, skimming and Track 1 and Track 2 data. Most entries relate to credit card fraud and identity theft. The page was last modified in February 2016, and it does not discuss UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, approved on 7 July 2021, is the agency's FOIA case log for April through June 2019. It lists each request by the date it was opened, its case number and its subject, covering people, intelligence programs such as MKULTRA and Operation Paperclip, and foreign policy topics. A few entries concern UFO subjects: requests for records on Majestic 12, on Bob Lazar, on To The Stars Academy, on Area 51 and aliens, and on the Roswell incident.
On 10 July 2019, the Central Intelligence Agency sent Timothy S. Cooper its final response to FOIA request F-2018-02317. Cooper had asked for a briefing document and notes on UFOs and a United States Government UFO program that DCI Allen W. Dulles and DDP Richard Bissell, Jr. reportedly gave President-Elect John F. Kennedy at Palm Beach, Florida, on 18 November 1960. The letter, signed by Information and Privacy Coordinator Mark Lilly, says no responsive records were found and explains Cooper's appeal rights.
This is a FOIA follow-up letter from requester Timothy S. Cooper to the Central Intelligence Agency, dated July 9, 2019, which the CIA's FOIA Requester Service Center stamped as received on July 18, 2019. Under reference F-2018-01132, Cooper asks for a status report on his August 17, 2018 request. That request sought DCI General Walter B. Smith's Weekly Friday Black Book Briefing to President Truman for 19 December 1952 on "flying saucers", along with any related documents.
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA task record belongs to case F-2018-01132, requested by Timothy Cooper. It was sent on 25 September 2019 and was due back on 15 October 2019. It tasks a search for DCI General Walter B. Smith's weekly Friday Black Book briefing to President Truman on "flying saucers" for 19 December 1952. The two-page form lists no documents under Documents Tasked and has redactions under exemptions (b)(3), (b)(5) and (b)(6). It was approved for release on 14 April 2023.
This is a final response letter from the Central Intelligence Agency, dated 23 January 2020 and signed by Information and Privacy Coordinator Mark Lilly, to Timothy S. Cooper about FOIA request F-2018-01132. Cooper had asked for DCI General Walter B. Smith's weekly Black Book briefing to President Truman of 19 December 1952 on "flying saucers" and any related documents. The CIA located four documents totaling eleven pages. It released them with deletions under FOIA exemptions (b)(1), (b)(3) and (b)(6), and it explained Cooper's appeal and mediation rights.
This is a final response letter from the Central Intelligence Agency to Timothy S. Cooper under FOIA reference F-2018-01809. The letter is dated 30 January 2020 and signed by Information and Privacy Coordinator Mark Lilly. Cooper had asked for records of DCI Walter B. Smith's meeting with President Truman on January 6, 1953, which was held to brief him on flying saucers. The CIA reports that it found no responsive records. The letter explains Cooper's appeal rights and the mediation services offered by OGIS.
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA task record covers case F-2018-01132, an appeal phase search task. The record is dated January 24, 2020, and was approved for release in 2023. The requested subject was DCI General Walter B. Smith's weekly Friday Black Book briefing for December 19, 1952, to President Truman on "flying saucers." According to the record, the initial search located 4 responsive materials, and the task was returned on January 12, 2021. Much of the record is redacted under exemptions (b)(3), (b)(5) and (b)(6).
This is a letter from researcher Timothy S. Cooper to the Central Intelligence Agency's Agency Release Panel, dated 14 February 2020 and released by the CIA in 2023. Cooper appeals the Agency's January 2020 response to his March 2018 FOIA request (reference F-2018-01827). He calls that response unacceptable and makes a formal Mandatory Declassification Review request for General Smith's 19 December 1952 briefing book on flying saucers, presented to President Truman. He argues the historical document should be declassified and released in full.
This Central Intelligence Agency letter, dated 30 June 2020 and signed by Information and Privacy Coordinator Mark Lilly, responds to Timothy S. Cooper under reference F-2018-01132. It confirms that on 24 February 2020 the Agency received his 14 February 2020 appeal to the Agency Release Panel. His FOIA request sought DCI General Walter B. Smith's weekly Friday Black Book briefing to President Truman for 19 December 1952 on flying saucers, plus related documents. The letter asks him to keep using the case reference number.
This Central Intelligence Agency task record, dated 22 February 2022 and approved for release in April 2023, tracks the appeal phase of FOIA case F-2018-01132 filed by requester Timothy Cooper. The request sought DCI General Walter B. Smith's weekly Friday Black Book briefing of 19 December 1952 to President Truman on "flying saucers." It notes that the initial search located four responsive materials, and it logs comments and a second review. Most details are withheld under exemptions (b)(3), (b)(5) and (b)(6).
This Central Intelligence Agency case processing record covers the appeal phase of FOIA case F-2018-01132, filed by requester Timothy Cooper. It is a task report dated 02/22/2022, with a due date of 07/24/2020 and a return date of 01/06/2021. The request sought DCI General Walter B. Smith's weekly Friday Black Book briefing of 12/19/1952 to President Truman on "flying saucers." The comments say the initial search located 4 responsive materials. Much of the record is redacted under exemptions (b)(3), (b)(5) and (b)(6).
The Central Intelligence Agency's CY 2006 Case Log was approved for release on October 7, 2020. It lists Freedom of Information Act requests the agency logged during 2006, giving each one's creation date, case number and subject. The subjects range from MKULTRA, Star Gate and Iraq's weapons programs to individual people. Some requests concern the 1947 Roswell incident, UFO sighting reports from 1953 and 1954, Captain Thomas Mantell's 1948 crash, Lt. Felix Moncla's 1953 F-89C accident report, and UFOs and Area 51.
This is the Central Intelligence Agency's calendar year 2007 FOIA case log, approved for release on October 7, 2020. It lists the creation date, case number and subject of each request received during 2007. Subjects range from MKULTRA, Project Jennifer and the Iraq war to named individuals. A few entries touch on UFO topics, including a request about Japan Airlines Flight 1628 over Alaska on November 18, 1986, an alleged midair collision near Coyame, Mexico in 1974, and declassified information on UFOs.
This is the Central Intelligence Agency's unclassified FOIA case log for calendar year 2008, released on 8 October 2020. It lists each request by the date opened, case number and subject. The subjects include named individuals, Latin American political violence, Iraq, interrogation and waterboarding, MKULTRA records and 9/11 documents. Only a few entries touch on UFOs: a January 2008 request for FBIS translations of UFO-related articles from 2007, and requests about Project Snowbird and man-carrying balloons.
This is the Central Intelligence Agency's unclassified log of Freedom of Information Act cases opened during calendar year 2010, approved for release on 7 October 2020. Each entry lists the date a request was opened, its case number and its subject. Most requests concern people, intelligence history, MKULTRA, CREST documents and foreign affairs. A few touch on UFO topics, including a request for UFO records from 1953 to the present, a 25 January 2010 airborne craft near Newfoundland, and Project SIGMA.
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA case log lists requests opened from January to March 2009, and the extracted text also includes pages from October to December 2009. It was approved for release on October 7, 2020. Each entry gives the date opened, a case number and the subject. The subjects range from named individuals and MKULTRA to Argentina's military dictatorship and Croatia. A few are UFO related: FBIS-translated UFO articles from 2007, 57 UFO-related CIA documents, a 1962 Nevada crash, George Van Tassel and the Roswell incident.
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA case log, approved for release on 23 August 2022, covers requests handled in calendar years 2001 to 2003. It lists case numbers, request subjects and outcomes such as granted in full, granted in part, denied, referred or no records located. Most subjects involve intelligence, foreign policy and individuals. A few concern UFOs, including correspondence with Dr. Steven Greer, Majestic 12, the 1976 Tehran UFO incident, Area 51 and S-4, and German intelligence activities in Roswell.
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA case-processing record is dated 9 May 2022 and was approved for release in January 2023. It tracks task 5458710 under case EOM-2019-00295, a request from John Greenewald about a UFO research document from the CREST database. The task was sent to IMS Search on 1 February 2019 with instructions to find a clean copy and review it. Senior management review was completed and the action closed on 15 October 2019. Much of the text is redacted under exemptions (b)(3), (b)(5) and (b)(6).
This is the Central Intelligence Agency's log of Freedom of Information Act cases for fiscal year 2020, approved for release on 15 November 2022. Across 79 pages it lists each request opened between late 2019 and September 2020 with its date, case number and subject. The subjects cover MKULTRA, whistleblower complaints, historical figures and foreign affairs. Several requests ask about UFO sightings, Project Blue Book, NICAP, extraterrestrial evidence and Dr. Ronald Pandolfi's emails that mention unidentified aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency document, approved for release on 25 March 2025, lists internal investigations closed during calendar year 2017. It gives a case number and a short title for each case. The allegations include travel fraud, misuse of a government travel card, child pornography, whistleblower retaliation, conflict of interest, Privacy Act violations, theft of government property, marriage and visa fraud, and time and attendance abuse. The document says nothing about UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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.