Correspondence Relating to Project Blue Book, 1955

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Commander-in-Chief
Continental Air Defense Command
Ent Air Force Base, Colorado
Attn: Director of Intelligence
1. The Canadian Department of External Affairs has informed this
iquarters through the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
permission has been granted, as an interim measure, for United
military and civil aircraft flying over Canadian territory to
vital intelligence sightings in accordance with the following
ciples:
S. If possible, sightings shall be reported by radio to a
Canadian Air Force ground station or the nearest Canadian or
sed. States radar station.
b. If efforts to establish contact with such stations are
accessful, sightings may then be reported by radio directly to
States authorities.
C. If, after failing to establish contact with a Royal
dian Air Force ground station, 8 United States aircraft reports
etly to an authority in the United States, that authority shall
unit the information immediately to the Canadian Defense Command.
2. These measures will hold until detailed procedures can be
out between the Royal Canadian Air Force and the United States
Force. An RCAF-USAF working group is presently meeting to do this.
3- It is believed that it would be beneficial to have 8 repre-
abive from CONAD sitting in on these meetings with the Canadians
unsure that insofar as possible CONAD's desires are made known and
sfied. If this is agreeable, cable notification will be given far
ugh in advance of each meeting to enable a representative from
to be present.
BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF:
MAURICE s. BEENE
Colonel, USAF
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