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(l), "The 'official censorship, ridicule
and silence' as stated are not true, nor is
the statement •conceal vital UFO data•.
stead it would be more correct to state that
the policy of the Department of Defense is
not to release UFO data not substantiated by
fact.
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"Inference is made of ~_,i.sm in
efforts to obtain information about UFO when
in fact the control of such information follows
an established policy. The Department of
Defense must maintain such controls to insure
that data released is based on fact.~
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"Attempts to extract UFO data from
this headquarters ffiSCONARQ7 cannot be met.
Suggest contact be made with ... the U. s.
Air Force.
Any matter received should be
considered privileged information and not for
release to the public.
(4)
"The statements contained herein
are not an attempt at •censorship'. The Army
encourages its ... personnel to speak and
write, as long as they stick to the facts, do
not reveal classified infQrmation, and meet
standards of propriety." 2
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Shortly after I transferred from Fort Monroe to
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the u. S. Army Transportation S~hool at Fort Eustis, Va.,
I again pulled my end of our tug of war.
I wanted to
squelch rumors that UFO•s were secret terrestrial weapons.
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Pursuing this angle, I wrote privately to the Combat Develop­
ment agency at Eustis on March 13, 1960, and asked whether
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