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35 Building A Secret Air Force 35 Building A Secret Air Force BUILDING A SECRET Operations Records, Information Management Stratton, Provost MIT, 27 January 1953. BUILDING A SECRET (37) See Chadwell, memorandum for Chief, Staff, Job 86-00538R, Box 1. AIR FORCE : The (19) See CIA memorandum, unsigned, Physics and Electronics Division/OSI (Todos M. AIR FORCE : The Odarenko), "Unidentified CIA's Role in the Study "Flying Saucers," 11 August 1952. Flying Objects," 27 May 1953. CIA's Role in the Study (20) See CIA, memorandum, unsigned, (38) See Odarenko, memorandum to of UFOs "Flying Saucers," 14 August 1952. Chadwell, "Unidentified Flying Objects," 3 July of UFOs (21) See CIA, memorandum, unsigned, Continued from Page 34 "Flying Saucers," 19 August 1952. 1953. See also Odarenko, memorandum to Continued from Page 34 (22) See Chadwell, memorandum for Smith, Chadwell, "Current Status of Unidentified Flying 17 September 1952 and 24 September 1952, "Flying Objects (UFOB) Project," 17 December 1953. German V-1 and V-2 rockets before their operational Saucers." See also Chadwell, memorandum for DCI (39) See Odarenko, memorandum, use during the war. See Jacobs, UFO Controversy, p. Smith, 2 October 1952 and Klass, UFOs, pp. 23-26. "Unidentified Flying Objects," 8 August 1955. 33. The Central Intelligence Group, the predecessor (23) Chadwell, memorandum for DCI with (40) See FBIS, report, "Military of the CIA, also monitored reports of "ghost attachments, 2 December 1952. See also Klass, Unconventional Aircraft," 18 August 1953 and rockets" in Sweden in 1946. See CIG, Intelligence UFOs, pp. 26-27 and Chadwell, memorandum, 25 various reports, "Military-Air, Unconventional Report, 9 April 1947. November 1952. Aircraft," 1953, 1954, 1955. (5) Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, p. 156 (24) See Chadwell, memorandum, 25 (41) Developed by the Canadian affiliate of and Quintanilla, "The Investigation of UFOs," p. 97. November 1952 and Chadwell, memorandum, Britain's A. V. Roe, Ltd., Project Y did produce a (6) See US Air Force, Air Material "Approval in Principle - External Research Project small-scale model that hovered a few feet off the Command, "Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project Concerned with Unidentified Flying Objects," no ground. See Odarenko, memorandum to Chadwell, SIGN, no. F-TR 2274, IA, February 1949, Records date. See also Philip G. Strong, OSI, memorandum "Flying Saucer Type of Planes" 25 May 1954; of the US Air Force Commands, Activities and for the record, "Meeting with Dr. Julius A. Stratton, Frederic C. E. Oder, memorandum to Odarenko, Organizations, Record Group 341, National Executive Vice President and Provost, MIT and Dr. "USAF Project Y," 21 May 1954; and Odarenko, T. Archives, Washington, DC. Max Millikan, Director of CENIS." Strong believed M. Nordbeck, Ops/SI, and Sidney Graybeal, (7) See US Air Force, Projects GRUDGE that in order to undertake such a review they would ASD/SI, memorandum for the record, "Intelligence and BLUEBOOK Reports 1- 12 (Washington, DC; need the full backing and support of DCI Responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air National Investigations Committee on Aerial Smith. Vehicles," 14 June 1954. Phenomena, 1968) and Jacobs, The UFO (25) See Chadwell, memorandum for DCI, (42) See Reuben Efron, memorandum, Controversy, pp. 50-54. ""Unidentified Flying Objects," 2 December 1952. "Observation of Flying Object Near Baku," 13 (8) See Cabell, memorandum to See also Chadwell, memorandum for Amory, DDI, October 1955; Scoville, memorandum for the Commanding Generals Major Air Commands, "Approval in Principle - External Research Project record, "Interview with Senator Richard B. Russell," "Reporting of Information on Unconventional Concerned with Unidentified Flying Objects," no 27 October 1955; and Wilton E. Lexow, Aircraft," 8 September 1950 and Jacobs, The UFO date. memorandum for information, "Reported Sighting Controversy, p. 65. (26) The IAC was created in 1947 to serve of Unconventional Aircraft," 19 October 1955. (9) See Air Force, Projects GRUDGE and as a coordinating body in establishing intelligence (43) See Lexow, memorandum for BLUE BOOK and Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, p. requirements. Chaired by the DCI, the IAC included information, "Reported Sighting of Unconventional 67. representatives from the Department of State, the Aircraft," 19 October 1955. See also Frank C. (10) See Edward Tauss, memorandum for Army, the Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Bolser, memorandum for George C. Miller, Deputy Deputy Assistant Director, SI, "Flying Saucers," 1 FBI, and the AEC. Chief, SAD/SI, "Possible Soviet Flying Saucers, August 1952. See also United Kingdom, Report by (27) See Klass, UFOs, p. 27. Check On;" Lexow, memorandum, "Possible Soviet the "Flying Saucer" Working Party, "Unidentified (28) See Richard D. Drain, Acting Flying Saucers, Follow Up On," 17 December 1954; Flying Objects," no date (approximately 1950). Secretary, IAC, "Minutes of Meeting held in Lexow, memorandum, "Possible Soviet Flying (11) See Dr. Stone, OSI, memorandum to Director's Conference Room, Administration Saucers," 1 December 1954; and A. H. Sullivan, Jr., Dr. Willard Machle, OSI, 15 March 1949 and Ralph Building, CIA," 4 December 1952. memorandum, "Possible Soviet Flying Saucers," 24 L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director, OSI, (29) See Chadwell, memorandum for the November 1954. memorandum for DDI, "Recent Sightings of record, "British Activity in the Field of UFOs," 18 (44) See Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Unexplained Objects," 29 July 1952. December 1952. Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and (12) Stone, memorandum to Machle. See (30) See Chadwell, memorandum for DCI, Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART also Clark, memorandum for DDI, 29 July 1952. "Consultants for Advisory Panel on Unidentified Programs, 1954-1974 (Washington, DC: CIA (13) See Klass, UFOs, p. 15. For a brief Flying Objects," 9 January 1953; Curtis Peebles, History Staff, 1992), pp. 72-73. review of the Washington sightings see Good, Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer (45) See Pedlow and Welzenbach, Overhead Above Top Secret, pp. 269-271. Myth (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Reconnaissance, pp. 72-73. This also was confirmed (14) See Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Press, 1994). pp. 73-90; and Jacobs, The UFO in a telephone interview between the author and Director, OSI, memorandum to DDI Robert Amory, Controversy, pp. 91-92. John Parongosky, 26 July 1994. Parongosky Jr., 29 July 1952. OSI and OCI were in the (31) See Fred C. Durant III, Report on the oversaw the day-to-day affairs of the OXCART Directorate of Intelligence. Established in 1948, OSI Robertson Panel Meeting, January 1953. Durant, on program. served as the CIA's focal point for the analysis of contract with OSI and a past president of the (46) See Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, p. foreign scientific and technological developments. American Rocket Society, attended the Robertson 135. In 1980, OSI was merged into the Office of Science panel meetings and wrote a summary of the (47) See Peebles, Watch the Skies, pp. 128- and Weapons Research. The Office of Current proceedings. 146; Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Intelligence (OCI), established on 15 January 1951 (32) See Report of the Scientific Panel on Objects (New York: Doubleday, 1956); Keyhoe, The was to provide all-source current intelligence to the Unidentified Flying Objects (the Robertson Report), Flying Saucer Conspiracy (New York: Holt, 1955); President and the National Security Council. 17 January 1953 and the Durant report on the panel and Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, pp. 347-49. (15) Tauss, memorandum for Deputy discussions. (48) See Strong, letter to Lloyd W. Berkner; Assistant Director, SI (Philip Strong), 1 August (33) See Robertson Report and Durant Strong, letter to Thorton Page; Strong, letter to 1952. Report. See also Good, Above Top Secret, pp. 337- Robertson; Strong, letter to Samuel Goudsmit; (16) On 2 January 1952, DCI Walter Bedell 38, Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, p. 95, and Klass, Strong, letter to Luis Alvarez, 20 December 1957; Smith created a Deputy Directorate for Intelligence UFO's, pp. 28-29. and Strong, memorandum for Major James F. Byrne, (DDI) composed of six covert CIA organizations-- (34) See Reber, memorandum to IAC, 18 Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence Department of OSI, OCI, Office of Collection and Dissemination, February 1953. the Air Force, "Declassification of the `Report of the Office National Estimates, Office of Research and (35) See Chadwell, memorandum for DDI, Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects,'" 20 Reports, and the Office of Intelligence "Unidentified Flying Objects," 10 February 1953; December 1957. See also Berkner, letter to Strong, Coordination--to produce intelligence analysis for Chadwell, letter to Robertson, 28 January 1953; and 20 November 1957 and Page, letter to Strong, 4 US policymakers. Reber, memorandum for IAC, "Unidentified Flying December 1957. The panel members were also (17) See Minutes of Branch Chief's Objects," 18 February 1953. On briefing the ONE, reluctant to have their association with the Agency Meeting, 11 August 1952. see Durant, memorandum for the record, "Briefing released. (18) Smith expressed his opinions at a of ONE Board on Unidentified Flying Objects," 30 meeting in the DCI Conference Room attended by January 1953 and CIA Summary disseminated to the Continued on Page 36 his top officers. See Deputy Chief, Requirements field, "Unidentified Flying Objects," 6 February Staff, FI, memorandum for Deputy Director, Plans, 1953. www.xzoneradio.com "Flying Saucers," 20 August 1952, Directorate of (36) See Chadwell, letter to Julius A. www.xzoneradio.com