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.

 

 

 

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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 document see the following:

 

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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 182 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 113-114 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

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1987

Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 329-330 (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).

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1996

Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 399, 402 (in Chapter 16) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).

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1997

Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 21 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#ft21 )

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1983

Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in Chapter 2) of the Prometheus softback edition.

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1994

Peebles, Curtis (with lengthy extract ) in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 77 (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “CIA Involvement”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 92-93 of the Berkley paperback edition.

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