By Walter Bedell Smith, Director of the CIA, 1 January
1952
(Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.)
Source: Internet Archive (archive.org)San
Francisco , California
The memorandum was sent to Director, Psychological Strategy
Board.
Quote from the document (Page 4):
“FACTS BEARING ON THE PROBLEM:
5. ATIC has roughly 20 percent of its cases in
the ‘unexplained’ category.
6. Of this 20 percent they feel that 10 percent
would remain unexplained even with a full measure of available information. This
residue of as-yet-unexplainable reports was aptly described as a group of ‘incredible
reports from credible observers.’ ”
Internet Archive text:
“Document number CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020017-2
declassified and released through the CIA’s CREST database. Previously
available only on four computers located outside of Washington D.C., the Agency
was successfully pressured into putting the files online as a result of a
MuckRock lawsuit and the efforts of Emma Best. The metadata was collected by
Data.World, and the files are now being archived and made text searchable by
the Internet Archive.”
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