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This CIA/OSI memorandum for file, dated 21 January 1953, documents the meeting of an ad hoc scientific advisory panel — later known as the Robertson Panel — co…

This CIA information report, dated 4 February 1953, aggregates unevaluated accounts drawn from French daily and thrice-weekly newspapers published between 3 Ju…

This CIA report, dated 2 September 1952, aggregates unevaluated eyewitness accounts of unidentified flying objects published in French daily newspapers from Da…

This two-page CIA Office Memorandum, dated 3 July 1953, was authored by the Chief of the Physics & Electronics Division of the Office of Scientific Intelligenc…

This UNCLASSIFIED FBIS London cable (serial LD2209194992), transmitted 22 September 1992 and approved for release by the CIA in 2003, reports on a Russian-lang…

This single-page document, held in the CIA Reading Room and marked 'Approved For Release 2000/08/15,' is an English translation of a Soviet/Russian theoretical…

This single-page memorandum, dated 23 May 1994, documents a request by PAG-TA on behalf of the program's external contractor, Science Applications Internationa…

This three-page CIA-released memorandum, dated 25 July 1995 and faxed on 27 July 1995, was authored by Edwin C. May, Ph.D., of the Cognitive Sciences Laborator…

This 46-page Defense Intelligence Agency document, prepared by the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence and dated 5 January 1993, reports on a…

This declassified CIA internal memorandum (ORD-374-95), dated 7 June 1995, updates senior officials on the status of Star Gate, the government's paranormal rem…

This unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…

This document is the image file index (Images.20171021.hash_index.txt) accompanying the CIA's November 2017 release of digital material seized from Osama bin L…

This two-page CIA memorandum, signed by H. Marshall Chadwell (Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence) and addressed to the Chief of the Physics and Electr…

This declassified CIA draft memorandum, dated 21 April 1995 (two days after the Oklahoma City Bombing), records that Ed May of Science Applications Internation…

This CIA internal memorandum, circulated by buckslip, concerns Dr. Leon Davidson and his latest publication on 'space saucers' titled 'The Air Force and the Sa…

This two-page CIA Memorandum for Record, dated 30 January 1953, records a briefing of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) Board concerning Unidentified Flyi…

This document is a book review published in the CIA's Studies in Intelligence (Vol 58, No. 3, Extracts, September 2014) by Jay Watkins, assessing Annie Jacobse…

This CIA memorandum, marked Confidential/Secret and dated 27 January 1978, was authored by H. Clark Schor, Chief of the Plans and Review Group of the Central C…

According to the releasing source, this CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance ai…

According to the CIA, this August 1967 document reports on conversations held with Soviet scientists on the subject of unidentified flying objects during a US…

This CIA Information Report, prepared in the USSR foreign-intelligence collection stream, records the unevaluated eyewitness account of a 41-year-old US nation…

This unevaluated CIA intelligence report gathers translated newspaper accounts of unidentified flying object ('flying saucer') sightings published in various f…

This two-page CIA memorandum, dated 29 May 1953, discusses questions received from Leo (Leon) Davidson directed at Bob Robertson and 'Lloyd' regarding their ac…

This four-page CIA cable, transmitted from the Guatemala City station to Director and Mexico City in April 1973, documents a station investigation (run through…