Posted On: September 10, 2022

Here is some information on how the CIA has been monitoring UFO groups starting in the 1960s. If you think about it, why would they go to so much trouble?

The most vociferous civilian UFO research organization opposing government secrecy in the fifties and sixties was the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), founded by a former Navy physicist, Thomas Townsend Brown, in 1956, and headed for many years by Major Donald Keyhoe, US Marine Corps (retired). NICAP's Board of Governors at one time included former Director of the CIA Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who had been Pacific Commander of Intelligence during World War II.

While on the NICAP board, he made a number of extraordinary statements attesting to the reality and seriousness of the UFO phenomenon. He was convinced that UFOs were unknown objects operating under intelligent control and that "the Air Force is still censoring UFO sightings. Hundreds of authentic reports by veteran pilots and other technically trained observers have been ridiculed or explained away as mistakes, delusions or hoaxes. It is imperative that we learn where the UFOs come from and what their purpose is. The public has a right to know."

In a signed statement dated 22 August 1960, sent to Congress, Hillenkoetter said:

"It is time for the truth to be brought out, Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects. Two dangers are steadily increasing:

1. The risk of accidental war from mistaking UFO formations for a Soviet surprise attack.

2. The danger that the Soviet government may, in a critical moment, falsely claim the UFOs as secret Russian weapons against which our defenses are helpless."

But in 1962 Hillenkoetter suddenly resigned from NICAP. "In my opinion, NICAP's investigation has gone as far as possible," he wrote in his letter of resignation.

"I know the UFOs are not U.S. or Soviet devices. All we can do now is wait for some action by the UFOs. The Air Force cannot do any more under the circumstances. It has been a difficult assignment for them, and I believe we should not continue to criticize their investigations."

Keyhoe was convinced that Hillenkoetter had been pressurized "at a very high level" to resign. Whatever the truth, it was a severe blow to NICAP's prestige, and Keyhoe was bitterly disappointed.

Another former CIA official on the board of NICAP was Colonel Joseph J. Bryan III, founder and original Chief of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff, and former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force as well as aviation adviser to NATO. In a letter to Keyhoe, Colonel Bryan made the following positive statement on the UFO problem:

"I am aware that hundreds of military and airline pilots, airport personnel, astronomers, missile trackers and other competent observers have reported sightings of UFOs. I am also aware that many of these UFOs have been reported maneuvering in formation, and that many were simultaneously tracked by radar. It is my opinion that:

The UFOs reported by competent observers are devices under intelligent control. Their speeds, maneuvers and other technical evidence prove them superior to any known aircraft or space devices now produced on earth.

These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

This policy is dangerous, especially since mistaken identification of UFOs as a secret Russian attack might accidentally set off war. Unless this policy is changed, a Congressional investigation should be held to reduce or eliminate this and other dangers."

This statement was made in 1960, shortly after Bryan joined NICAP. Keyhoe was unaware of Bryan's involvement with the CIA, a fact which did not emerge until 1977 when Bryan admitted to having been a former covert official for the Agency, and asked that this not be made public since "it might embarrass CIA". He denied any association with the CIA during the period he served on the board of NICAP.

Todd Zechel has uncovered a great deal of evidence for the infiltration of NICAP by the CIA. Although debunker Philip Klass has tried to discredit Zechel's background in the intelligence field, inquiries have established that Zechel was indeed employed by the Army Security Service, the forerunner of the National Security Agency, as well as the NSA itself. Also, his published articles reflect a broad knowledge about the intelligence community.

According to Zechel, a number of CIA covert agents worked themselves into key positions in NICAP. One was Count Nicolas de Rochefort, now deceased, who had been a member of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff, and who became vice-Chairman of NICAP in the year of its foundation (1956). Another was Bernard J. Carvalho, who had been a go-between for such secretly owned companies as Fairway Corporation, a charter airline used by CIA executives. Carvalho was appointed Chairman of NICAP's membership subcommittee at one time. During the 1960s former CIA briefing officer Karl Pflock became Chairman of NICAP's Washington, DC, subcommittee. He is said to have denied that the CIA ever asked him for information on either UFOs or NICAP.

Zechel further claims that an undated CIA document, anonymously written, indicates familiarity with G. Stuart Nixon, former assistant to NICAP's president, John L. Acuff, and states that in the late 1960s and early 1970s the NICAP daily logs show that Nixon met with several past and present CIA employees on a frequent basis. The CIA officials allegedly included Art Lundahl, then Director of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center, Frederick Durant, former CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence missile expert and author of the Robertson Panel Report, and Dr. Charles Sheldon, a CIA consultant.

According to Zechel, Major Keyhoe was deliberately ousted by the CIA infiltrators in 1969, after which a former head of the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (allegedly with CIA affiliations), John Acuff, took over as president.

Zechel Concluded:

"Maybe it's a coincidence that the founder of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff has been on the board [of NICAP] for nearly twenty years. Maybe it's another coincidence that Charles Lombard, a former CIA covert employee (according to himself would seek out a retired CIA executive to run the organization (i.e. after Jack Acuff was replaced by retired CIA agent, Alan N. Hall in 1979!). Or maybe we're all paranoid. Perhaps Keyhoe deserved to be fired from the organization he built with his own sweat, blood, and sacrifice. The timing couldn't have been better, in any case. Keyhoe, after all, was beginning to focus on the CIA in 1969, instead of his tunnel-visioned attacks on the Air Force, if they wanted to destroy the leading anti-secrecy organization of the 1960s, they couldn't have done a better job if they'd tried."

One documented link between NICAP and the CIA is a letter dated 19 September 1973 to researcher Larry Bryant from John Maury of the CIA's Legislative Council, which refers to the Agency's contact with Richard H. Hall in 1965:

"In January 1965, the Agency made an inquiry into the research being conducted on UFO sightings and contacted Mr. Hall, then Acting Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Mr. Hall explained how his organization operated and loaned the Agency several of its publications which were reviewed and returned. No excerpts were made from the publications, nor did the Agency come to any conclusions on the substance therein. There was no further contact with Mr. Hall or any other representative of his organization, and the Agency had no further interest in the subject of UFOs."

This letter would seem to argue against CIA infiltration of NICAP, although it shows the Agency's interest in the organization in 1965. Why would Hall need to explain "how his organization operated", if the CIA had infiltrated it since 1956? If John Maury was telling the truth, we have to assume that either

(a) the lengthy list of NICAP officials with established CIA connections was entirely coincidental, that they joined NICAP for solely personal reasons, or

(b) that Maury was unaware of the true purpose of the meeting with Hall, and knew nothing of the CIA / NICAP background. It is also possible, of course, that Maury was dissembling: the CIA, after all, is of necessity not in the habit of revealing its actions and motives!

A memorandum dated 25 January 1965, with the names of the writer and recipient blacked out ("To Chief, Contact Division, Attention [deleted], from Chief [deleted") throws further light on the meeting with Hall. It begins: "This confirms [deleted] conversation 19 January 1965, at which time various samples and reports on UFO sightings procured from NICAP were given to [deleted] for transmittal to OSI. The information was desired by OSI to assist them in the preparation of a paper for [deleted] on UFOs." There follows a description of NICAP's investigative procedures, with particular reference to Air Force reports:

A printed form, prepared by the Air Force for NICAP's use, is utilized during the interview. It was our understanding that copies of these reports go directly to various Air Force bases. There apparently is a strong feeling on the part of NICAP officials, i.e. Kehoe [sic] and Hall, that the Air Force tends to downgrade the importance of UFO sightings because they (the Air Force) do not care to have too much made of the sightings by the US press We were told by Mr. Hall that there have been instances where the Air Force has attempted to intimidate witnesses and get them to sign false statements relative to UFO sightings.

A detailed description of NICAP's investigation into radar tracking’s of UFOs at Patuxent Naval Air Station in December 1964 follows, as well as a sighting "within the last week or 10 days" at Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC. The memo concludes: "[deleted] informed us that she is requesting a security clearance on Mr. Hall predicated upon biographic information provided by [deleted]."

According to researcher Brad Sparks, who has specialized in a study of the CIA's involvement in the subject, former CIA Director John A. McCone asked the Office of Scientific Intelligence for an evaluation of the Washington area's wave of UFO sightings at that time, probably, says Sparks, as a result of the privately expressed concerns of congressmen. The OSI instructed the CIA's local Contact Division office to approach NICAP for a brief resume of those sightings. After consultation with the Air Force, the OSI informed McCone of its negative conclusions about the wave.

It is self-evident that the CIA had become interested in NICAP's activities by 1965, if not earlier, and an undated CIA memorandum, claimed by the authors of Clear Intent to have been written in the early 1970s, gives a highly detailed rundown on NICAP's organization and the impressive credentials of its advisory group, and furthermore confirms that ex-CIA personnel were included therein:

This board relies heavily on both a loosely structured advisory group and a fairly well placed network of investigators. The advisory group is made up of experts in many disciplines including physics, astronomy, anthropology, medicine and psychology. This group also includes some ex-CIA and Defense Intelligence types who advise on investigative techniques and NICAP / government relations.

The system of investigators is a good one. As of a few months ago some 35 investigators were located throughout the country, with NICAP in the process of establishing even more. A breakdown of their backgrounds looked like the following: 7 Ph.D.s, 2 MAs or MS, 23 BAs or BS, 1 AA, and 2 with college training but no degrees. Occupationally they included 4 physical scientists, 13 engineers, 3 college profs, 13 specialists, including doctor, technician, computer programmer and businessman. Five of the 35 are pilots.

It is my assumption, shared by some other researchers, that the CIA had become concerned by the enormous influence over public opinion that NICAP undoubtedly wielded at the time. No other UFO organization before or since has so consistently and effectively challenged official attempts to debunk the subject. The CIA needed to turn NICAP's skills and energy to suit its own ends.

It is hardly surprising that NICAP's influence dwindled significantly from 1970 onward, although other factors may have contributed to this, such as the negative findings of the Condon Report in 1969. But as Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood point out, Keyhoe was ousted as NICAP's Director in December 1969 by a faction led by the Chairman of the Board, Colonel Joseph Bryan III, former Chief of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff. John Acuff, with tenuous links to the CIA, replaced Keyhoe, and he in turn was succeeded by Alan Hall, a retired CIA employee, who apparently accepted the position after a number of other ex-CIA personnel were offered the job. NICAP board member Charles Lombard, a former CIA covert employee, is said to have given his full support to Hall. Serious problems with management ensued and NICAP eventually became so ineffective that it was dissolved; its files were taken over in 1973 by Dr. Allen Hynek's newly formed Center for UFO studies (CUFOS) in Evanston, Illinois.

The authors of Clear Intent offer their opinion, which I share, that the CIA needed to infiltrate NICAP for the following reasons:

(1) To gather intelligence through NICAP's investigators network.

(2) To identify and plug leaks from government sources.

(3) To monitor other hostile intelligence agencies (NICAP received several overtures from the Soviet KGB).

Fawcett and Greenwood further speculate that after NICAP's mismanagement, its effectiveness as a CIA front was diminished, and the Agency allowed it to be taken over by CUFOS.

They stop short of suggesting that CUFOS itself may have been infiltrated or influenced by the CIA, but nevertheless theorize that this could happen to any prominent UFO group if it became too effective.

It must be remembered that one of the recommendations of the CIA Robertson Panel Report was that civilian UFO groups should be watched "because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur." With his worldwide knowledge of UFO groups, Dr. Hynek would have been invaluable to the CIA as a consultant, and may have acted in this capacity ever since he sat on the Robertson Panel in 1953.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988.

My Take: The CIA seems to be going to an awful lot of trouble to keep track of and infiltrate UFO groups. I wonder why that is? Is it to keep track of the so called crazy people? Is it to use these groups as a UFO information source?

Posted On: September 10, 2022

Here is some information on how the CIA has been monitoring UFO groups starting in the 1960s. If you think about it, why would they go to so much trouble?

The most vociferous civilian UFO research organization opposing government secrecy in the fifties and sixties was the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), founded by a former Navy physicist, Thomas Townsend Brown, in 1956, and headed for many years by Major Donald Keyhoe, US Marine Corps (retired). NICAP's Board of Governors at one time included former Director of the CIA Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who had been Pacific Commander of Intelligence during World War II.

While on the NICAP board, he made a number of extraordinary statements attesting to the reality and seriousness of the UFO phenomenon. He was convinced that UFOs were unknown objects operating under intelligent control and that "the Air Force is still censoring UFO sightings. Hundreds of authentic reports by veteran pilots and other technically trained observers have been ridiculed or explained away as mistakes, delusions or hoaxes. It is imperative that we learn where the UFOs come from and what their purpose is. The public has a right to know."

In a signed statement dated 22 August 1960, sent to Congress, Hillenkoetter said:

"It is time for the truth to be brought out, Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects. Two dangers are steadily increasing:

1. The risk of accidental war from mistaking UFO formations for a Soviet surprise attack.

2. The danger that the Soviet government may, in a critical moment, falsely claim the UFOs as secret Russian weapons against which our defenses are helpless."

But in 1962 Hillenkoetter suddenly resigned from NICAP. "In my opinion, NICAP's investigation has gone as far as possible," he wrote in his letter of resignation.

"I know the UFOs are not U.S. or Soviet devices. All we can do now is wait for some action by the UFOs. The Air Force cannot do any more under the circumstances. It has been a difficult assignment for them, and I believe we should not continue to criticize their investigations."

Keyhoe was convinced that Hillenkoetter had been pressurized "at a very high level" to resign. Whatever the truth, it was a severe blow to NICAP's prestige, and Keyhoe was bitterly disappointed.

Another former CIA official on the board of NICAP was Colonel Joseph J. Bryan III, founder and original Chief of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff, and former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force as well as aviation adviser to NATO. In a letter to Keyhoe, Colonel Bryan made the following positive statement on the UFO problem:

"I am aware that hundreds of military and airline pilots, airport personnel, astronomers, missile trackers and other competent observers have reported sightings of UFOs. I am also aware that many of these UFOs have been reported maneuvering in formation, and that many were simultaneously tracked by radar. It is my opinion that:

The UFOs reported by competent observers are devices under intelligent control. Their speeds, maneuvers and other technical evidence prove them superior to any known aircraft or space devices now produced on earth.

These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

This policy is dangerous, especially since mistaken identification of UFOs as a secret Russian attack might accidentally set off war. Unless this policy is changed, a Congressional investigation should be held to reduce or eliminate this and other dangers."

This statement was made in 1960, shortly after Bryan joined NICAP. Keyhoe was unaware of Bryan's involvement with the CIA, a fact which did not emerge until 1977 when Bryan admitted to having been a former covert official for the Agency, and asked that this not be made public since "it might embarrass CIA". He denied any association with the CIA during the period he served on the board of NICAP.

Todd Zechel has uncovered a great deal of evidence for the infiltration of NICAP by the CIA. Although debunker Philip Klass has tried to discredit Zechel's background in the intelligence field, inquiries have established that Zechel was indeed employed by the Army Security Service, the forerunner of the National Security Agency, as well as the NSA itself. Also, his published articles reflect a broad knowledge about the intelligence community.

According to Zechel, a number of CIA covert agents worked themselves into key positions in NICAP. One was Count Nicolas de Rochefort, now deceased, who had been a member of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff, and who became vice-Chairman of NICAP in the year of its foundation (1956). Another was Bernard J. Carvalho, who had been a go-between for such secretly owned companies as Fairway Corporation, a charter airline used by CIA executives. Carvalho was appointed Chairman of NICAP's membership subcommittee at one time. During the 1960s former CIA briefing officer Karl Pflock became Chairman of NICAP's Washington, DC, subcommittee. He is said to have denied that the CIA ever asked him for information on either UFOs or NICAP.

Zechel further claims that an undated CIA document, anonymously written, indicates familiarity with G. Stuart Nixon, former assistant to NICAP's president, John L. Acuff, and states that in the late 1960s and early 1970s the NICAP daily logs show that Nixon met with several past and present CIA employees on a frequent basis. The CIA officials allegedly included Art Lundahl, then Director of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center, Frederick Durant, former CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence missile expert and author of the Robertson Panel Report, and Dr. Charles Sheldon, a CIA consultant.

According to Zechel, Major Keyhoe was deliberately ousted by the CIA infiltrators in 1969, after which a former head of the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (allegedly with CIA affiliations), John Acuff, took over as president.

Zechel Concluded:

"Maybe it's a coincidence that the founder of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff has been on the board [of NICAP] for nearly twenty years. Maybe it's another coincidence that Charles Lombard, a former CIA covert employee (according to himself would seek out a retired CIA executive to run the organization (i.e. after Jack Acuff was replaced by retired CIA agent, Alan N. Hall in 1979!). Or maybe we're all paranoid. Perhaps Keyhoe deserved to be fired from the organization he built with his own sweat, blood, and sacrifice. The timing couldn't have been better, in any case. Keyhoe, after all, was beginning to focus on the CIA in 1969, instead of his tunnel-visioned attacks on the Air Force, if they wanted to destroy the leading anti-secrecy organization of the 1960s, they couldn't have done a better job if they'd tried."

One documented link between NICAP and the CIA is a letter dated 19 September 1973 to researcher Larry Bryant from John Maury of the CIA's Legislative Council, which refers to the Agency's contact with Richard H. Hall in 1965:

"In January 1965, the Agency made an inquiry into the research being conducted on UFO sightings and contacted Mr. Hall, then Acting Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Mr. Hall explained how his organization operated and loaned the Agency several of its publications which were reviewed and returned. No excerpts were made from the publications, nor did the Agency come to any conclusions on the substance therein. There was no further contact with Mr. Hall or any other representative of his organization, and the Agency had no further interest in the subject of UFOs."

This letter would seem to argue against CIA infiltration of NICAP, although it shows the Agency's interest in the organization in 1965. Why would Hall need to explain "how his organization operated", if the CIA had infiltrated it since 1956? If John Maury was telling the truth, we have to assume that either

(a) the lengthy list of NICAP officials with established CIA connections was entirely coincidental, that they joined NICAP for solely personal reasons, or

(b) that Maury was unaware of the true purpose of the meeting with Hall, and knew nothing of the CIA / NICAP background. It is also possible, of course, that Maury was dissembling: the CIA, after all, is of necessity not in the habit of revealing its actions and motives!

A memorandum dated 25 January 1965, with the names of the writer and recipient blacked out ("To Chief, Contact Division, Attention [deleted], from Chief [deleted") throws further light on the meeting with Hall. It begins: "This confirms [deleted] conversation 19 January 1965, at which time various samples and reports on UFO sightings procured from NICAP were given to [deleted] for transmittal to OSI. The information was desired by OSI to assist them in the preparation of a paper for [deleted] on UFOs." There follows a description of NICAP's investigative procedures, with particular reference to Air Force reports:

A printed form, prepared by the Air Force for NICAP's use, is utilized during the interview. It was our understanding that copies of these reports go directly to various Air Force bases. There apparently is a strong feeling on the part of NICAP officials, i.e. Kehoe [sic] and Hall, that the Air Force tends to downgrade the importance of UFO sightings because they (the Air Force) do not care to have too much made of the sightings by the US press We were told by Mr. Hall that there have been instances where the Air Force has attempted to intimidate witnesses and get them to sign false statements relative to UFO sightings.

A detailed description of NICAP's investigation into radar tracking’s of UFOs at Patuxent Naval Air Station in December 1964 follows, as well as a sighting "within the last week or 10 days" at Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC. The memo concludes: "[deleted] informed us that she is requesting a security clearance on Mr. Hall predicated upon biographic information provided by [deleted]."

According to researcher Brad Sparks, who has specialized in a study of the CIA's involvement in the subject, former CIA Director John A. McCone asked the Office of Scientific Intelligence for an evaluation of the Washington area's wave of UFO sightings at that time, probably, says Sparks, as a result of the privately expressed concerns of congressmen. The OSI instructed the CIA's local Contact Division office to approach NICAP for a brief resume of those sightings. After consultation with the Air Force, the OSI informed McCone of its negative conclusions about the wave.

It is self-evident that the CIA had become interested in NICAP's activities by 1965, if not earlier, and an undated CIA memorandum, claimed by the authors of Clear Intent to have been written in the early 1970s, gives a highly detailed rundown on NICAP's organization and the impressive credentials of its advisory group, and furthermore confirms that ex-CIA personnel were included therein:

This board relies heavily on both a loosely structured advisory group and a fairly well placed network of investigators. The advisory group is made up of experts in many disciplines including physics, astronomy, anthropology, medicine and psychology. This group also includes some ex-CIA and Defense Intelligence types who advise on investigative techniques and NICAP / government relations.

The system of investigators is a good one. As of a few months ago some 35 investigators were located throughout the country, with NICAP in the process of establishing even more. A breakdown of their backgrounds looked like the following: 7 Ph.D.s, 2 MAs or MS, 23 BAs or BS, 1 AA, and 2 with college training but no degrees. Occupationally they included 4 physical scientists, 13 engineers, 3 college profs, 13 specialists, including doctor, technician, computer programmer and businessman. Five of the 35 are pilots.

It is my assumption, shared by some other researchers, that the CIA had become concerned by the enormous influence over public opinion that NICAP undoubtedly wielded at the time. No other UFO organization before or since has so consistently and effectively challenged official attempts to debunk the subject. The CIA needed to turn NICAP's skills and energy to suit its own ends.

It is hardly surprising that NICAP's influence dwindled significantly from 1970 onward, although other factors may have contributed to this, such as the negative findings of the Condon Report in 1969. But as Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood point out, Keyhoe was ousted as NICAP's Director in December 1969 by a faction led by the Chairman of the Board, Colonel Joseph Bryan III, former Chief of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staff. John Acuff, with tenuous links to the CIA, replaced Keyhoe, and he in turn was succeeded by Alan Hall, a retired CIA employee, who apparently accepted the position after a number of other ex-CIA personnel were offered the job. NICAP board member Charles Lombard, a former CIA covert employee, is said to have given his full support to Hall. Serious problems with management ensued and NICAP eventually became so ineffective that it was dissolved; its files were taken over in 1973 by Dr. Allen Hynek's newly formed Center for UFO studies (CUFOS) in Evanston, Illinois.

The authors of Clear Intent offer their opinion, which I share, that the CIA needed to infiltrate NICAP for the following reasons:

(1) To gather intelligence through NICAP's investigators network.

(2) To identify and plug leaks from government sources.

(3) To monitor other hostile intelligence agencies (NICAP received several overtures from the Soviet KGB).

Fawcett and Greenwood further speculate that after NICAP's mismanagement, its effectiveness as a CIA front was diminished, and the Agency allowed it to be taken over by CUFOS.

They stop short of suggesting that CUFOS itself may have been infiltrated or influenced by the CIA, but nevertheless theorize that this could happen to any prominent UFO group if it became too effective.

It must be remembered that one of the recommendations of the CIA Robertson Panel Report was that civilian UFO groups should be watched "because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur." With his worldwide knowledge of UFO groups, Dr. Hynek would have been invaluable to the CIA as a consultant, and may have acted in this capacity ever since he sat on the Robertson Panel in 1953.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988.

My Take: The CIA seems to be going to an awful lot of trouble to keep track of and infiltrate UFO groups. I wonder why that is? Is it to keep track of the so called crazy people? Is it to use these groups as a UFO information source?