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Central Intelligence Agency
1947-09-18what this date marks is not recorded
The Central Intelligence Agency (est. 1947). Recurs throughout this network: it convened the 1953 Robertson Panel, whose signed report recommended stripping UFOs of "the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired" and whose minuted discussion of an education programme with the two aims of "training and debunking" - recorded in the Durant Report, not in what the panel signed - is the documented origin of official debunking policy, funded the SRI remote-viewing program, produced the 1983 Gateway Process report, ran the anomalies/weird desk (Kit Green, Ron Pandolfi), spun up the venture arm In-Q-Tel that seeded Palantir, and its Directorate of Science & Technology was led by figures like Donald Kerr. The institutional through-line of the government-secrecy thread.
In BOTH threads - the consciousness thread and the UAP recordBoth threads, and this is the entity where they touch hardest. UAP: convened the Robertson Panel, holds the Blue Book correspondence, the 1952-53 review. PSI: sponsored and funded Project SCANATE, funded the SRI psychoenergetics programme through ORD and OTS, took STAR GATE over from DIA and commissioned the 1995 evaluation that ended it. The screen scored uap 7 and psi 18 and could not express the answer; the field now can.
17 of 27 connections resolve to a document you can open.
Documents17 behind these connections16 more that name it
Documents behind these connections
- Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I 2024-02-01
- Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, January 14-18, 1953 (the Durant Report) 1953-02-16
- Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process 1983-06-09
- No title recorded war-gov-cia-uap-003-the-central-intelligence-agency-and-over
- Directors of Central Intelligence (Factbook on Intelligence)
- An Evaluation of the Remote Vewing Program: Research and Operational Applications 1995-09-22
- Memorandum for Record: Security Review of "Mind Wars" 1984-05-09
- Status of STARGATE Program
- Project GRILL FLAME (U): Operational Tasks 1983-01
- Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project
- Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychology 1976-02-04
- Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification 1977-08-03
- FOIA Case Log, Calendar Year 2001-2003 2001-01-01
- The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range 1977-01-01
- Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, 14-18 January 1953 1953-01-17
- Report on Conversations With Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR 1967-08-18
- Speculative Paper by N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971 / Low Scientific Level of Other Soviet Papers 1972-04-10
Also named in documents we hold
This entity's name appears in the 26 documents below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.
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Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency release; the study is Project Blue Book Special Report No.…
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Central Intelligence Agency, Information and Privacy Coordinator. Signed by Kathryn I.…
Directors of Central Intelligence (Factbook on Intelligence)already cited above
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Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency; drafted for the Intelligence Advisory Committee
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Central Intelligence Agency
FOIA Case Log, Calendar Year 2001-2003already cited above
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Central Intelligence Agency. The log is the agency's own record of FOIA requests it pro…
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Central Intelligence Agency, Information Review & Release. An INTERNAL newsletter, orig…
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Central Intelligence Agency, Information Review & Release. An INTERNAL newsletter, orig…
Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Projectalready cited above
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…arl E. Duckett, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Central Intelligence Agency
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…ayre Stevens, Director, Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency
Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, 14-18 January 1953already cited above
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Scientific Intelligence
Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, January 14-18, 1953 (the Durant Report)already cited above
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Scientific Intelligence. Part I and Part II are…
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Central Intelligence Agency; covering letter signed by the Secretary, Intelligence Advi…
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Central Intelligence Agency
Report on Conversations With Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSRalready cited above
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Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency - Information from Foreign Documents or Radio Broadcasts
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS. RE…
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Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence
Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychologyalready cited above
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Office of Technical Service, Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development
Status of STARGATE Programalready cited above
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Rangealready cited above
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Central Intelligence Agency, report number FIRK-311/01638-77
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Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Operations
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Central Intelligence Agency
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…February 25, 1960 Mr. Allen Dulles, Director Central Intelligence Agency 2430 E Street, N.W. Washington 25, D.C. Dear Mr. Dulles:…
27 connections
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This map saysthe CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence who drove the 1953 Robertson PanelThe document saysH. Marshall Chadwell clandestinely sponsored the establishment of a UFO scientific review panel led by California Institute of Technology physicist, H.P. Robertson. ... In December 1952, H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, briefed the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Walter Bedell Smith, on the subject of UFOs.Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I, 2024
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convened by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence (1953)
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reached the public through its 2003 CREST release; the report itself is a US Army INSCOM memorandum and the CIA did not write itAnalysis and Assessment of Gateway ProcessPDF p. 1 checked against the page
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Director of Central Intelligence (1953-61)
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Director of Central Intelligence (1961-65)
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terminated after the CIA-commissioned 1995 review
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This map sayssponsored and funded by the CIAThe document saysThere was a Project named SCANATE, run by SRI-I, funded by the CIA and co-participated in with the National Security Agency (NSA).Memorandum for Record: Security Review of "Mind Wars", 1984
printed p. 2 · read off the page footerCaveat THIS IS AN ASSESSMENT, NOT AN ORIGINAL RECORD. The document is INSCOM's 1984 security review of Ron McRae's book "Mind Wars". The sentence quoted sits in paragraph 3, the list of statements the reviewer determined as "having a high reliability for truth" - so what this establishes is that the Army's CENTER LANE project officer judged the published claim highly reliable in May 1984. It is not a contemporaneous record of the project it describes, and no page of an original SCANATE file is behind it. -
took the program over from DIA on congressional directionStatus of STARGATE ProgramPDF p. 1 checked against the page
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funded its psychoenergetics program from 1971, the first entry in the program's own funding tableProject GRILL FLAME (U): Operational Tasksprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the page
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was the client for the remote-viewing task on the sitesame document as the row aboveprinted p. 5 · PDF p. 10 checked against the page
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an office of the Agency
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→ MK-ULTRAThis map saysanalysis of extrasensory perceptionThe document saysThe claim appears twice in one hearing - written, in the prepared statement at printed 6, and spoken, at printed 11. Both pages were rendered and read.Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification, 1977
printed p. 6 · VERIFIED - folio read off the rendered page image, 2026-09-02. Not taken from the OCR text layer, which this document's cautions disqualify.
OCR text layer — a finding aid only; never quoted fromCaveat ONE CLAUSE IN A LIST OF FIFTEEN, AND NOTHING MORE. The hearing gives this subproject no number, no researcher, no institution, no date and no result. It does not say the work was done at SRI, that Gottlieb directed it, that it produced anything, or that it connects to any later programme on this map. What the page supports is that the category existed and that the Director of Central Intelligence told the Senate so. -
the only trace held here is a cancelled FOIA request to the Agency for the fileFOIA Case Log, Calendar Year 2001-2003PDF p. 74 checked against the page
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the observation survives only inside a CIA report on Soviet warhead handlingThe Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Rangeprinted p. 5 · PDF p. 3 checked against the page
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two pages of its file record that a document was withdrawn from it and where it went
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the only account this project holds of his position on the reports is a CIA report of a US scientist's visit to himReport on Conversations With Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSRprinted p. 1 · PDF p. 1 checked against the page
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its existence is attested here only by a CIA report of a conference talkSpeculative Paper by N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins of Life, Armenia, 6-8 September 1971 / Low Scientific Level of Other Soviet Papersprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 2 checked against the page
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CIA Deputy Director for Science & Technology (2001-2005)AFIO obituary (2025); Senate confirmation records
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← In-Q-Telthe CIA's not-for-profit venture-capital armWikipedia: In-Q-Tel
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CIA physician-scientist who ran the medical/anomalies deskWikipedia: Christopher "Kit" Green
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CIA scientist associated with the UFO/anomalies deskWikipedia: Ron Pandolphi
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CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran Project PalladiumWikipedia: Gene Poteat
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hosted the CIA/DIA-funded remote-viewing program (1972-95)Wikipedia: Stanford Research Institute
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jointly run by the U.S. Navy and the CIANational Underwater Reconnaissance Office declassified history
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headed its Technical Services Division (chemical/behavioral programs)CIA records; Church Committee (1975)
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← MK-ULTRAthe CIA's Cold-War mind-control programCIA MK-ULTRA records; Church Committee (1975)
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led its Directorate of Science & Technologyofficial biography; Liberation Times reporting
Notes on this record
The category
Recatalogued from "org" on 2026-08-21. A US government agency, office or installation; it was filed with private organisations, which meant the Central Intelligence Agency did not read as governmental anywhere on this map.
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ONE CLAUSE REWRITTEN 30 August 2026. It read "it convened the 1953 Robertson Panel that set official UFO-debunking policy". The panel's signed recommendations (cia-c00015456, PDF 3, read by eye) contain no media programme, no named organisation and not the word "debunking"; "training and debunking" is in the Durant Report (cia-rdp81r00560r000100030027-0, PDF 21, printed page 19), which records what was said in the meetings. The same fault was corrected on the robertsonpanel node the same day. Nothing else on this node was touched.