CIA Internal Admission: 'Offices and Personnel Within the Agency Are Monitoring the UFO Phenomena'
On April 15, 1976, a teletyped CIA message stated: 'At the present time there are offices and personnel within the Agency who are monitoring the UFO phenomena, but again, this is not currently on an official basis.' The A/DDS&T (CIA's Office of Science and Technology) would remain 'open for business — UFO business.' DCD (Domestic Collection Division) had been receiving UFO related material from S&T sources conducting related research.
Background
On April 15, a teletyped CIA message came with a 'blockbuster admission': 'At the present time there are offices and personnel within the Agency who are monitoring the UFO phenomena, but again, this is not currently on an official basis.'
The A/DDS&T (Assistant Deputy Director for Science and Technology), the CIA's Office of Science and Technology, would remain 'open for business — UFO business.'
DCD Collection
On April 22, 1976, an internal Domestic Communications Division memo revealed that DCD had been receiving UFO related material from many of their S&T (science and technology) sources who were 'presently conducting related research. These scientists include some who have been associated with the Agency for years and whose credentials remove them from the "nut" variety.'
Seven years after the Condon Report, this read like something new — a more obvious admission of continued CIA interest would never be made.
Significance
Most explicit CIA admission of ongoing UFO monitoring, contradicting decades of public denial after the Condon Report.