Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Response to Major Donald E. Keyhoe regarding CIA involvement with UFOs
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A 1958 CIA letter to Major Donald E. Keyhoe of NICAP denying that the Agency ever ordered UFO witnesses to remain silent. The document was declassified in 2010.
This document is a formal letter dated April 17, 1958, from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, to Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret), who was serving as the Director of NICAP. The letter serves as a direct response to a previous inquiry sent by Major Keyhoe on March 13, 1958. In the letter, the CIA explicitly addresses allegations regarding the suppression of information by the Agency. Mr. Earman states that he had the Agency's records reviewed and found no evidence to support the claim that any CIA employee had ever instructed a witness of an unidentified flying object to remain silent about their sighting. The document includes a distribution list indicating that copies were sent to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, specifically to Major L. H. Thacker, as well as to other internal departments and individuals, including Colonel Grogan and Mr. Lexow. The document is marked with the reference number ER-10-2692/a and was approved for release in February 2010.
I have had the records of this Agency checked and find nothing therein reflecting that any CIA employee, at any time, ordered any witness to an unidentified flying object to remain silent concerning said witness's observations of said UFO.
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Official Assessment
I have had the records of this Agency checked and find nothing therein reflecting that any CIA employee, at any time, ordered any witness to an unidentified flying object to remain silent concerning said witness's observations of said UFO.
The CIA denies that any of its employees ever ordered witnesses of unidentified flying objects to remain silent regarding their observations.
Key Persons
- Donald E. KeyhoeMajor, USMC (Ret), Director of NICAP
- L. H. ThackerMajor, Air Force
- LexowRecipient of distribution
- Col. GroganRecipient of distribution