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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 Clinton Presidential Library FOIA release (2006-0483-F), taken from Scheduling Office records, contains Steven M. Greer's CSETI correspondence with the White House. Greer's 15 November 1996 letter asks President Clinton for a meeting before a planned UN disclosure event. A memo sent to senior officials says witnesses would testify publicly unless told by 1 January 1997 that security oaths still bind them. Greer's enclosed briefings claim ET craft were retrieved in 1947. The White House declined the meeting on 6 December 1996.
This declassified Spanish Air Force file, catalogued as expedientes 791111, 791117 and 791128 (Bis), was released through the Air Operational Command (MOA) intelligence section in November 1996. It collects a 1994 request from CJMOA asking commands to search their archives for UFO records, together with a list of past incidents and MACEN's reply. It also holds controller and aircrew reports on a Phantom scramble from Torrejón over Madrid on 28 November 1979. No visual contact was made, though the crew had brief radar echoes and radar-lock warnings.
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 FOIA release (2006-0483-F) from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library's Scheduling Office files contains a letter exchange with Steven M. Greer of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). In a 6 February 1997 letter, Greer asked President Clinton and the Vice President to meet military and intelligence UFO witnesses at a CSETI Project Starlight meeting in Washington on April 8 to 10, 1997. The White House Director of Scheduling declined the request on February 25, 1997.
This undated Air Force UFO fact sheet, filed as Attachment 2 in an Office of the Secretary of Defense release, traces UFO investigations from Project Sign in 1948 through Grudge to Project Blue Book. It gives yearly sighting counts from 1947 to 1969: 12,618 reports in all, 701 of them still unexplained. It records that Blue Book was ended on December 17, 1969 and lists its three conclusions: no threat to national security, no technology beyond present knowledge, and no evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles. It also notes that NASA declined to resume investigations in 1977.
This heritage pamphlet from Malmstrom AFB traces the history of the 341st Missile Wing. The unit began as a B-25 bomb group in the China-Burma-India Theater in 1942, then flew B-47s at Abilene AFB before being activated at Malmstrom in July 1961. The pamphlet covers the Minuteman I, II and III deployments, the Cuban Missile Crisis alert, arms-reduction work under START, trophies, wing commanders and a missile field chronology. It also has museum display notes on missiles and the UH-1 helicopter.
This is a Headquarters, Continental Air Command (ConAC) central files folder for file number 471.6, subject "Guided Missiles," volume 1, opened 1 January 1952. The folder carries file-handling instructions and a declassified USAF correspondence reference form. The form indexes a 31 January 1952 request for publications that ConAC sent to the commanding officer of the 3415th Technical Training Group at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, with cross-references to 1st Air Force correspondence dated 7 and 31 January 1952.
This is a Headquarters Continental Air Command Air Adjutant General central file, number 471.6 ("Guided Missiles"), opened 1 July 1952. It holds transmittal letters and endorsements for UFO reports sent to the Air Technical Intelligence Center and the Director of Intelligence. They include a 10 December 1952 Report of Unidentified Celestial Object from the 2500th Air Base Wing at Mitchel AFB, a July 1952 report from a Long Beach, California squadron, and a letter from Russell E. Smith of Dallas, Texas.
This 1970 USAF Office of Information file from the 21st Air Division at Hancock Field, Syracuse, collects community relations correspondence. It includes Enrico Grimaldi's report of faint star-like objects seen over Commack, Long Island on November 21, 1970, and Major Francis C. Moriarty's reply. The reply notes that Project Blue Book ended December 17, 1969, so the Air Force would not investigate. The file also holds a draft article on NORAD and SAGE, survey requests, thank-you letters and press tour messages.
This FBI file, 62-HQ-83894 Sub A, collects newspaper clippings on flying saucers that the Bureau filed between 1947 and 1960. They include July 1947 reports of discs over Portland, Idaho, Seattle and Washington, and a Grand Blanc, Michigan pizza maker's complaint about his moon photograph. There are also clippings on Reinhold Schmidt's November 1957 space ship claim at Kearney, Nebraska, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago radar sighting, Carl Jung's 1958 remarks, and Captain Peter Killian's 1959 airliner sighting.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, compiled in 1947, collects newspaper clippings, memoranda, teletypes and letters about the summer's flying disc reports. It includes a July 1947 memo on a Grafton, Wisconsin priest's reported disc, which the Milwaukee office learned was a circular saw with wires, possibly a prank. Other items cover a disc found at Black River Falls, reports from Texas and Oregon, a San Diego memorandum on visitors, and Hoover's acknowledgments forwarding information to the War Department.
This FBI file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 2) collects 1947 Bureau memoranda, teletypes and enclosures on reported flying discs. It includes a Newark interview report on a disc seen at Hackensack, New Jersey on August 3, a Detroit report on fused sand from Midland, Michigan, and War Department requests to investigate Richard F. Shaver of Lily Lake, Illinois after sightings over southern Wisconsin. It also covers Army Air Forces investigation reports and a Delaware pilot's claimed rocket-like sightings near Rehoboth Beach.
This section of the FBI's 1947 flying disc file (62-HQ-83894) collects correspondence between FBI field offices and Army Air Forces intelligence. It includes a Portland prospector's claim to have seen disc objects near Mount Adams on June 24, 1947, an Air Force report on the August 1 crash near Kelso, Washington that killed investigators Davidson and Brown, and the Maury Island claims of Dahl and Crisman. Other items are an MIT analysis of cast iron fragments from New Hampshire, the A. C. Urie Twin Falls sighting, and the Bureau's decision to stop its disc investigations.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 4) collects 1947 to 1949 correspondence on flying discs. It includes Portland police officers' accounts of a silvery object over the city on September 11, 1947, an Alaska pilot's July 1947 sighting near Bethel, citizen letters answered by J. Edgar Hoover, and a 1948 Air Defense Command directive on disc investigations. The FBI replied that it was conducting no flying disc investigations. Later items concern William Albert Rhodes's disc photographs and a Los Angeles letter judged a probable prank.
This is Section 5 of the FBI's flying disk file 62-HQ-83894, made up of 1949 and 1950 correspondence. Most of it covers a letter sent to Walter Winchell by Peter Camerlon Jones, who said he saw a silver top-shaped object near Los Angeles in 1947. The Los Angeles office could not find him, and the Bureau suggested the letter was a prank. The section also holds a Navy intelligence report on 6 or 7 discs seen over southern Oregon on 27 May 1949, plus several letters from citizens.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, 62-HQ-83894 Section 6 (serials 246 to 301), collects FBI memoranda and correspondence from 1950 to 1952 on flying saucers. It covers green fireballs and discs seen near sensitive installations in New Mexico, Dr. Lincoln LaPaz's analysis, and the Air Force's Land-Air study known as Project Twinkle. It also holds an OSI summary, a USAF directive on reporting unconventional aircraft, a dissolving object reported by Philadelphia police, and letters from members of the public.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, part of file 62-HQ-83894, gathers flying saucer correspondence and memoranda mostly from 1952, with some from 1954. It includes a Savannah River Plant sighting teletype, Hoover replies that send public letters on to the Air Force, a San Diego report on Borderland Sciences, and a laboratory exam of the scoutmaster Desvergers' cap that found no residue. It also covers instructions to refer disc reports to OSI and a 1954 Cincinnati matter involving Truman Bethurum.