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.

 

 

 

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1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Text of relevant document included in CUFON CIA ufo-related document sampler in Part 1 (of 2 Parts). Available online at: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm

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Book References

For discussion of this CIA 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.

1

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 pages 181-182 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 113 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

2

1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 326-329 (in Chapter 14) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).

4

1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 396-399 (in Chapter 16) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

4

1997

Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 20 in his study 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#ft20 )

1

1986

Klass, Philip J in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 70 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 10 (Spring 1986).

1

1983

Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16-18 (in Chapter 2) of the Prometheus softback edition.

3

1997

Klass, Philip J in his “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 51-52 (in Chapter 6), 205 (in Chapter 26) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition.

3

2000

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

1

1999

Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 4) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis (with lengthy extract) in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-76 (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 89-91 of the Berkley paperback edition.

3

2001

Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

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