(Central
Intelligence Agency , Washington
UFO comments by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant
Director of OSI (CIA):
“H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, added that he considered the problem of such importance ‘that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council, in order that a communitywide coordinated effort towards its solution may be initiated.’ (22)
“H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, added that he considered the problem of such importance ‘that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council, in order that a communitywide coordinated effort towards its solution may be initiated.’ (22)
Chadwell briefed DCI Smith on the subject of UFOs in
December 1952. He urged action because he was convinced that ‘something was
going on that must have immediate attention’ and that ‘sightings of unexplained
objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of
major US defense installations are of such nature that they are not
attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.’ He
drafted a memorandum from the DCI to the National Security Council (NSC) and a
proposed NSC Directive establishing the investigation of UFOs as a priority
project throughout the intelligence and the defense research and development
community. (23) Chadwell also urged Smith to establish an external research
project of top-level scientists to study the problem of UFOs. (24) After this
briefing, Smith directed DDI Amory to prepare a NSC Intelligence Directive
(NSCID) for submission to the NSC on the need to continue the investigation of
UFOs and to coordinate such investigations with the Air Force. (25)”
H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of
the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI)
(project1947.com photo)
the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI)
(project1947.com photo)
(wikimedia.org image)