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  • 1952.0729 CIA study group memo

     

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    CIA study group memo
    A memorandum from Ralph L Clark, Acting Assistant Director of the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence to DDI Robert Amory, Jr, on 29 July 1952 stated that a special study group has been formed to review the situation, involving the OSI and the Office of Current Intelligence (OCI).

     

     

     

  • 1952.0801 CIA concealment memo

     

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    CIA concealment memo
    On 1 August 1952, Edward Tauss, acting chief of the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence Weapons and Equipment Division, reported on behalf of a special CIA study group in a memorandum for Deputy Assistant Director, SI (Philip Strong).

    Tauss urged that the CIA conceal its interest from the media and the public, “in view of their probable alarmist tendencies” to accept such interest as confirming the existence of UFOs.

     

  • 1952.0814 CIA briefing paper on UFOs

     

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    CIA briefing paper on UFOs
    On 14 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper entitled “Flying Saucers” details background of both Air Force and CIA investigations and considers major theories.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0815 CIA paper on IFOs

     

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    CIA paper on IFOs
    On 15 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper gives details of “the official explanations of the great majority of sightings of unidentified flying objects” and mentions “possible phenomena which may account for some of the open cases”.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0819 CIA paper on UFO dangers

     

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    CIA paper on UFO dangers
    On 19 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper entitled “Flying Saucers” discusses potential dangers of UFO reports, including the USSR's possible use of UFOs as a psychological warfare tool and deliberate overloading of the US air warning by the Soviets to gain a surprise advantage in any nuclear attack.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0820 CIA concerns

     

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    CIA concerns
    On 20 August 1952, a CIA memo refers to a meeting with officials during which DCI Walter Bedell Smith had expressed various concerns.

     

     

     

     

  • 1952.0822 CIA paper on USAF stand

     

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    CIA paper on USAF stand
    On 22 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper discussed the Air Force stand on “Flying Saucers”.

     

     

     

  • 1959.0706 CIA/Swan incident

     

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    CIA/Swan incident
    On 6 July 1959, CIA officials reportedly have a UFO sighting whilst one of them was attempting to “channel” an alien as part of their investigation of a woman, Mrs Frances Swan, that claimed to be able to channel an alien identifying itself as “Affa”

     

     

  • 1965.0126 CIA "Evaluation of UFOs"

     

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    CIA "Evaluation of UFOs"
    Following a review of recent UFO reports by officers of the CIA’s OSI, Donald F Chamberlain (OSI Assistant Director) assured DCI John McCone in a memorandum entitled “Evaluation of UFOs” dated 26 January 1965 that little had changed since the early 1950s and that there was still no evidence that UFOs were a threat to the security of the United States or that they were of foreign origin.

     

     

     

  • 1966.0903 John Lear on CIA involvement

     

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    John Lear on CIA involvement
    On 3 September 1966, an article by John Lear in The Saturday Review revealed the CIA’s involvement in sponsoring the Robertson Panel.

     

     

     

  • 1978.1214 CIA documents released

     

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    CIA documents released
    On 14 December 1978, the CIA releases UFO documents to Ground Saucer Watch.

     

     

     

  • 1997.0000 Gerald Haines on “CIA's role”

     

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    Gerald Haines on “CIA's role”
    During 1997, “Studies in Intelligence” contains a study by Gerald K Haines (National Reconnaissance Office historian) entitled “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90”.