Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1136 09 1136-09-p041

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2. that an agency more secret than themselves would be able to guide them toward a solution of the problem. Evidently the alternate approach of open, scientific inquiry, adequately financed by government funds, was never considered. Now positive proof is available that the CIA was the agency directly responsible for the inane "debunking" policy used by government agencies for seventeen years. This policy of ridicule and deemphasization was employed to embarrass UFO witnesses, to deny reports,...