341_110448_records_relating_to_the_collection_and_dissemination_of_intelligence_1948-1955-ts_cont_no.2_2-5300-2-5399.pdf

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SECURITY INFORMATION

Directorate of Intelligence
Headquarters, U. S. Air Force
42-854 Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.

All documents filed in numerical sequence according to Top Secret Control Number.

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D1-Hq, USAF

|  a. RECORD OF BASIC CORRESPONDENCE OR REQUEST |   | b. CLASSIFICATION:  |
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|  FROM: | DATE: 8 Nov 48 | TOP SECRET  |
|  AFOIR-CO | TYPE: |   |
|  SUMMARY: | Extracts from TT #1524, D/1, HQ USAF w A-2, USAFE | SUSPENSE  |
|  DATE RECEIVED DIR/INT | DATE | ASGD BY  |
|   | ASGD BY | NO.  |

|  c. TO: AFOIR | SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS - REMARKS  |
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|  1. Submitted for information. | DATE 8 Nov 48  |
|  2. All items have been distributed to AFOAI branches. | NO. 1  |
|  3. Item USAFE 14 has been distributed to CIT, AMC, + Armament Intel…

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To Gen. C
4 Nov 48

USAFE 2 TT 1524
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To Gen Cabell

We now have one complete set of all reports prepared by special intelligence organization of the European Command from its conception to present date. We are forwarding these reports for your inspection and final disposition. We are of the opinion that inspection of these reports will lend weight to arguments for allocating Air Force funds to this organization. Advise caution in utilizing these reports as most of them were forwarded as received.

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USAFE 10 TT 1524 4 Nov 1948
From OI OB

Following report on unidentified aircraft sighting comes from 307th Bomb Group which participated in operation daggar. Unidentified aircraft was sighted by three crews of the group at 1402Z 5 Sep 48 off west coast of Holland, 5155N/0355E. Altitude of all aircraft was 30,000 feet. When first sighted the unidentified A/C was cruising at a normal jet speed, heading 120 degrees. Soon after first seen, A/C began leaving smoke trails and condensation trails accompanied by sudden acceleration and then climb. Generall agreed by observers that it was…

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H.Q. USAE
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USAFE 14
TT 1524
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4 Nov 1948

From OI OB

For some time we have been concerned by the recurring reports on flying saucers. They periodically continue to cop up; during the last week, one was observed hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes. They have been reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking.

When officers of this Directorate recentl…

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He also knows of a Soviet-built radar set located near Kholomia Airfield (5 KM W of Airfield, near the town of Kholomia). This type set is called "Redut". He believes personnel of this set to be army, assigned to PVO, but is not certain. His regiment conducted flying cooperation exercises with the set, presumably to train the set operators, since the set was first located at Kholomia in Spring 1947. His aircraft, in October 1948, lost the set on such an exercise at a distance of 150 kilometers and altitude of 1200 meters. Following instructions, he then climbed to 3000 meters, when…

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USAFE 16 TT 1524 4 Nov 48

CIC source reports that the Russians have ordered CSR Missions in foreign countries to purchase radar tubes in large quantities regardless of costs. Mission also instructed to purchase a complete radar set.

(Eval C-3)
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