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.