1952.1204 Intelligence Advisory Committee

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Intelligence Advisory Committee

On 4 December 1952, the Intelligence Advisory Committee discussed UFOs and agreed that the Director of Central Intelligence should “enlist the services of selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence in the light of pertinent scientific theories”.

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1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

Web Resources

See “Minutes of Meeting held in Director's Conference Room, Administration Building, CIA,” by Richard D. Drain, Acting Secretary, IAC, 4 December 1952. 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 the IAC meeting see the following:

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
1997	Baker, Alan in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 153 (in Chapter 5) of the Orion softcover edition.	1
2003	Clark, Jerome in his “Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 105 (in Chapter 5) of the Citadel softcover edition.	1
2000	Dolan, Richard in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 191 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 121 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.	1
1953	Durant Report (the memo dated 16^th February 1953 from F C Durant to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence relating to the Robertson Panel) at page 1. The text of the Durant Report is available online at:http://www.cufon.org/cufon/robert.htm	1
1997	Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnotes 26-28 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#ft26	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 pages 197-199 (in Chapter 7) of the Rose Press softcover edition.	3
1977	Hynek, J Allen in “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at page 20 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).	2
1983	Klass, Philip J in “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 3) of the Prometheus softback edition.	1
1997	Klass, Philip J in his “The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 6) of the Prometheus Books hardback edition.	1
2000	Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 253-254 (in Chapter 21) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.	2
1994	Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 99 of the Berkley paperback edition (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “The Robertson Panel”).	1

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