EX-C.I.A. CHIEF WANTS UFO PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090025-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: June 1, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JUN ( ? 196e
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Wants UFO ProbeL
objects. .ThaV-WirifireiiFelisiiki
,!conClusions which, among othr
.things; said the UFOs pose no ap-
parent threat to national security
and recommended that the public
be . told more about them.
This recommendation immediate-
]y died.' ,
' No? need, to str'es that when
r Admiral' Hillefiltdetter states the
UFO's are intelligently controlled
"?and were, neither our invention,
nor Russian inventions he speaks
? with a knowledge possessed by
few other citizens. Whether a for-
mer director of C.I.A. keeps in
some contact with the C.I.A. ?and
its information after he has left
the Agency, no one will probably
answer.
Lied by Plan
But to come to the U-2 matter,
Here was a case where we lied
by prearrangement, lied by plan.
In the light of the Air Force han-
dling of the UFO matter, insisting
against plain'evidence to the con-
trary in certain cases that the
UFOs can all be explained as
familiar objects mistakenly iden-
tified, the question inevitably
arises: Is the Air. Force following
a prearranged plan of . public
statements on the strange ob-
jects? Is the Air Force deliberate-
ly misleading the public? 0.
Regarding' our early lying about
the captured U-2 plane and its
,pilot, our statement that the plane
was an innocent weather plane,
? George V. Allen, director of the.
U.S. Information . Agency, said
that this statement was a? "push-
button" reply, which he stated,
had been prepated in . advance.
Sec. of State Christian A. Herter
said our, statement was ",la cover
'story" that "was prepared for
that contingency". And Undersec-
retary of State Dillon repeated we
used a "cover story" which "had
rieen previously prepared for such
instance."
An all:inmOrtant revelation for
our citizens, from the 11-2 case,
, is that itis high official policy to
,,lie to our citizens and to the
world, in some. cases:
Mistaken identity
Do the UFO sightings constitute
By. BULKLEY GRIFFIN
Chief of Evening GazeCte
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON ? Adm. R. H.
Hillenkoetter, ,who headed the
Central Intelligence Agency from
May 1947 to October 1950, recent-
ly declared, speaking about the
so-called flying saucers: "The un-
knovin objects are operating un-
der intelligent control, It is im-
perative that we learn Where the
UFO's (unidentified flying ob-
jects) come from and what their
purpose is."
Then, referring to the years' ,of
World War II and the years im-
mediately. following, he said:, Vi
know that neither Russia nor this
country had anything- even' ap-
proaching such high speeds and
maneuvers." Here 'Admiral Hil-
lenkoetter presumably "wasspeak-
ing of at least part of the period
during which ilie was the director
of C.I.A. .
Admiral Hillenkoetter Wants a
Congressional investigation of the
'UFOs. This is a proposal that oth-
ets have made in recent years,
and it has been consistently op-
posed by the Air, Force which
possesses -exclusive official au-
thority to investigate and report
to ,the public upon the unidentified
?.flying objects. So far' 'Congres-
sional committees have shied
away from such a probe. ,
The U-2 incident, with its at-
tending circumstances, furnishes
particular life and significance to
the Hillenkdetter'conlictions.
? To begin with, the 'admiral for
about three and a half years held
,the same jOti that,Allen;WASulles
':now holds. Hillenkoetter un-
doubtedly received reports on the
UFOs, including the findings of
investigations concerning them.
Dulles without question has re-
.?ceived reports and findings on the
' UFOs. By the way, in the early
1950s the C.I.A. rather openly
i helped arrange a Pentagon meet-
L ing of top scientists on the strange
, ? ? '
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such a?case? Let it said paren-
lhetically that the majority of
,
isightings' obviously involve mis-
Itaken identity. But a .small mi-
nority do not; these 'present evi-
dence that that Air Force ex-
ilanations 'are not. true. Admiral
Hillenkoetter, with all his special
'knowledge; says this ?;-says this
indirectly, if You will. ? .
1 Does C.I.A. Director Allen
Dulles believe that something like
national panic might be produced
if 'the Air Force flatly. said that it
just can't explain certain UFO
sightings? Or has he advised, for
some other reason, the Air Force
line:of conduct?
Former C.I.A. Director R. H.
Hillerikoetter does not believe the
ADM. R. H. HILLENKOETTER
Wants To Investigate U.F.O.'s
Air Fore is telling our citizens
the truth about ? the unidentified
flying objects. He:would' have a
Congrestional .invtigation. His
judgment is entitled to extraordi-
nary attention.
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