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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).

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Image and text of memo appears online at:

http://www.nicap.org/wns3.htm

http://www.nicap.org/wash1952.htm

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Book References

For discussion of Clark’s memo see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1996

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Chapter 2) of the Parragon hardback edition.

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2000

Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 178 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 112 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 325-326 (in Chapter 14), with an image of the memo at page 501 (in the Appendix), of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

3

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 395-396 (in Chapter 16) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

2

1997

Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) immediately prior to the reference to footnote 13 in his article entitled “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90” in “Studies in Intelligence”, Issue 1997 Vol. 1, No. 1 (the text of the study is available online on various websites, including the CIA’s: http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/97unclass/ufo.html#ft13 )

1

1983

Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 2) of the Prometheus softback edition.

1

2000

Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 245-246 (in Chapter 21) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis (with extract) in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 73-74 (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 87-88 of the Berkley paperback edition.

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Other Material