1952.0917 Chadwell memo

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Chadwell memo

On 17 September 1952, H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, prepares a memorandum for CIA’s DCI Walter Bedell Smith entitled “Flying Saucers”.

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2. Book References

3. Other material

Web Resources

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Book References

Image of relevant memo in Timothy Good’s “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 502-503 (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).

Complete text of memo presented by Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at 282-283 (in Appendix 4) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

For discussion see the following:

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1997	Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 22 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#ft22	1
2000	Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 197 (in Chapter 7), with complete text of memo presented at 282-283 (in Appendix 4) of the Rose Press softcover edition.	1

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1997

Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 22 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#ft22

2000

Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 197 (in Chapter 7), with complete text of memo presented at 282-283 (in Appendix 4) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

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