Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Memorandum for Record: Air Force Request to Declassify CIA UFO Report
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This memorandum details administrative communications between the CIA and the Air Force regarding the sanitization and declassification of a UFO report in August 1966. It confirms the removal of CIA-related references and employee names from the document.
This Memorandum for Record, authored by David B. Stevenson on August 23, 1966, documents a series of communications between the author and Mrs. Sara Hunt of the Air Force Office of Information regarding the declassification of a CIA UFO report. Mrs. Hunt contacted the author twice on August 18, 1966. During the first call, she inquired about the status of the response to their request. During the second call, she sought clarification on the extent of deletions made to the report. Stevenson informed her that references to the CIA and the names of CIA employees had been removed, and noted that additional sanitization may have occurred during the processing of the reply. A subsequent call from the Air Force confirmed they had received the response and requested the return of their copy of the CIA report that had been forwarded to the CIA with the original declassification request.
I told her that, at least, reference to CIA and names of CIA employees were removed, and that I had heard that some additional sanitizing probably was done in the processing of the reply.
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Key Persons
- Mrs. Sara HuntAir Force Office of Information representative