certain people that a 'dirty tricks' campaign would be started against him.
References/Footnotes
(1) September 25, 1943 OSS memo released through the FOIA in September 1989.
(2) U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final report, Book VI, April 23, 1976, pp. 154-55.
(3) JJA personal records. Angleton took a seven-month leave of absence to remain in Tucson, AZ, for unspecified reasons not substantiated by the need to be with his wife and family as is believed by other writers; see Angleton’s absence from CIA Washington headquarters during May through December 1947; COLD WARRIOR JAMES JESUS ANGLETON: THE CIA’S MASTER SPY CATCHER by Tom Mangold, Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster, 1991, p. 361.
(4) The National Security Council on December 12, 1947, had adopted measures to counter the espionage and counterespionage threat as specified in NSCID 1 and later amended in NSCID 5 that authorized the Director of Central Intelligence to “conduct all organized Federal espionage and counterespionage operations.” According to CIA historian Arthur B. Darling, atomic weapons research became an overriding issue and coordination within the Office of Scientific Research and Development. With the AEC, through CIA consultant Dr. H.P. Robertson and using General Vandenberg’s directive containing an agreement between Dr. Vannevar Bush and others, facilitated the transfer of Manhattan Engineering District files to the Director of Central Intelligence for proper collection of foreign atomic energy research. Secret OSO activities in this area was not allowed to fall into administrative control of the AEC nor the FBI which Vandenberg thought should always remain within CIA intelligence operations: THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT To 1950 by Arthur B. Darling, Penn State Press, 1990, pp.197-239.
(5) The term “U.F.O.” as defined by Air Force intelligence directives is used to reflect unconventional aircraft and missiles and not interplanetary spacecraft.
(6) CIA FOIA response letter dated March 26, 1976 to July 14, 1975: FOIA request made by Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, AZ, in which it stated that the NSC tasked the CIA a requirement to determine the actual UFO threat. The CIA responded through the Office of Scientific Intelligence by creating the Intelligence Advisory Committee to study the threat aspects. Military members of the IAC fought vigorously to maintain participation in areas relating to AEC intelligence collection and the Joint Chiefs of Staff represented by General Todd (who is mentioned in a FBI memo regarding JSC ignorance of flying saucer data in 1947) was at odds with the CIA about the duplication of efforts by the military intelligence division in producing UFO intelligence data for the IAC: THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT To 1950 by Arthur B. Darling. Penn State Press, 1990, pp. 349-356.
(7) The KGB, the Committee for State Security; a non-military arm of the Soviet Intelligence Service. The GRU was the military arm. The KGB received its title in 1954. When mentioning the Russian Intelligence Service, LGB and GRU are referenced genetically to include both organizations.
(8) This remarkable fact is substantiated in the mistaken downgraded Top Secret Canadian Department of Transport Intra-Department Correspondence from Wilbert B. Smith to Dr. Robert I. Sarbacher, an American physicist and Science Consultant in the Guidance & Control Panel, Dated 21 November, 1950. Smith acknowledge that UFO studies were “considered by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance,” and that the “matter is the most classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher that the H-bomb.
(9) September 24, 1947 Top Secret/MAJIC EYES ONLY “Project WHITE HOT” Preliminary Estimate in Five Parts (Unacknowledged by the U.S. Government):