This post raises profound questions about the conventional history/historiography of James Forrestal’s final 13 months. Specifically: What happened to Forrestal that left Arthur Hill, then-Chairman of the National Security Resources Board (NSRB), saying he was “like everyone else, shocked and stunned” at Forrestal’s April 1948 Bethesda hospitalization? Why did a hospitalization of the sitting Secretary of Defense—an event that left NSRB Chairman Arthur Hill “shocked & stunned”—disappear from...

Preview of CIA-UAP-002, Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Report, 1952-1953

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CIA-UAP-002, Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Report, 1952-1953

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This released document records that the results of the panel's studies have moved CIA to conclude that no National Security Council Intelligence Directive on this sub-~ ject is warranted. The file preserves the source account or analysis but does not independently establish interpretations beyond the cited record. This document is useful as an officially released artifact because it preserves the file's provenance and lets its claims be compared with related Release 03 records.