UFOS, A MILITARY THREAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100200029-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: November 3, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM Dan Rather
November 3,.1981 5:40 PM
SUBJECT UFOs, A Military Threat
WTOP Radio
CBS Network
Washington, DC
BOB SCHIEFFER: This Is Bob Schieffer, sitting in for
Dan Rather, and reporting with news and commentary on the CBS
Radio Network.
When the space shuttle shoots Into outer space tomorrow,
will not be alone. It will enter a region Inhabited by satel-,
lites and stars and space litter and UFOs. That last part, the
part about UFOs, Is the assumption of a group which for some time
has been bringing suit against the government to force It to open
its UFO files. The group was successful in 1979 when the CIA
released 900 UFO-related documents. Now they are going for the
files of the National Security Agency, a handful of files which
they believe contains tatalizing information, like a report on a
UFO which supposedly shot down a Russian MIG over Cuba a few years
ago. The latest suit is being brought by a New York attorney who
says UFOs aren't happy little spaceships carrying creatures of
benign Intent; UFOs, he says, are a real military threat.
We III have the UFO suit In a moment.
SCH I EFFER: Peter Gersten is a lawyer in the Bronx
and the director of a small group called Citizens Against UFO
Secrecy, or CAUSE. In 1977 the group sued, under the Freedom
of Information Act, to force the CIA to publish Its UFO files.
Two years later, the CIA released 900 pages of documents. But
during its search of the files, the agency found some material
that originated with the National Security Agency. It turned
the papers over to NSA. Gersten and CAUSE filed suit to get
them too.
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