Memorandum for the President: Ghost Rockets (Leahy covering memorandum and National Intelligence Authority report)
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That a report on unidentified aerial objects reached the President of the United States on 23 August 1946, forwarded by his Chief of Staff.
That the Director of Central Intelligence assessed the Scandinavian ghost rockets for the President in August 1946, that an earlier memorandum of 1 August 1946 existed, and that the conclusion reached was Soviet guided-missile testing rather than anything unexplained.
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“THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. TOP SECRET. 23 August 1946. MEMORANDUM FOR The President. The attached report on ‘Ghost Rockets’ received from the National Intelligence Authority is forwarded for your information. WILLIAM D. LEAHY”
Eleven months before the Roswell incident and ten months before the Arnold sighting.
“Since preparation of our original memorandum dated 1 August 1946 on the subject of ‘Ghost Rockets’ over Scandinavia, additional intelligence indicates that the former tentative conclusions should be somewhat modified. 1. The weight of evidence now points to Peenemunde rather than to the Gulf of Finland as the probable launching site of most of these ‘rockets’. ... b. The U. S. Military Attache Moscow has reported that a key Swedish Air Officer stated that, on the basis of Swedish radar course-plotting, most of the launchings have been identified with the Peenemunde area. ... d. The Leopoldville radio reported in July that the Soviets were warning shipping against passage through certain parts of the Baltic and were threatening the death penalty to seamen who might disclose the ‘phenomena’ which they saw. 2. On the basis of the above evidence it seems probable that the U.S.S.R. is carrying out large-scale guided-missile tests around the Baltic ... 3. It is the belief of CIG that scientific experimentation is the primary Soviet objective and that political considerations, although thoroughly appreciated, are secondary.”
Sub-paragraph (c) is redacted, marked 25X1. Signed HOYT S. VANDENBERG, Lieutenant General, USA. The ellipses mark text passed over, not text withheld by the government; the one government withholding in this passage is (c), which is named.
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