Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Lawsuit against the CIA in 1978
PROJECT 1947 file:
“The Ground Saucer Watch (GSW) Freedom of Information Lawsuit Documents”:
http://www.project1947.com/ciaufo/ciagsw.html
UFO news article:
“C.I.A. PAPERS DETAIL U.F.O. SURVEILLANCE”,
14 January 1979 (The New York Times)
Article on the U.S. UFO group Ground Saucer Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency in 1978:
Quote from the article:
“Documents obtained in a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency show that the agency is secretly involved in the surveillance of unidentified flying objects and has been since 1949, an Arizona based U.F.O. group said yesterday.
Mr. Spaulding an aerospace engineer with Airesearch, one of the largest producers of aerospace components, said the documents show the United States embassies are used to help gather information on U.F.O. sightings and that the information "seems to be directed to the C.I.A., the White House and the National Security Agency."
A C.I.A. memo of Aug. 1, 1952, recommends continued agency surveillance of "flying saucers," saying, "it is strongly urged, however, that no indication of C.I.A. interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the U.S. government," the document said.
Among the documents are several detailed reports of Air Force attempts to either intercept or destroy U.F.O.'s.”
Rense.com presents the whole news article:
http://www.rense.com/general13/historic_ciasurvel.htm
A short excerpt of the article can also be found on the New York Times website:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30B14F6345413728DDDAD0994D9405B898BF1D3
I also reported on the above article on 16 September 2009.
The brothers William H. and J. A. Spaulding founded Ground Saucer Watch in 1957.
William H. Spaulding, Co-Founder and Director of Ground Saucer Watch, at the console of the image processing computer with which GSW analysed UFO photographs
(futureofmankind.co.uk photo)