DoW · DOW-UAP-D085
Transmission of the CIA Scientific Advisory Panel Report (1953)
This 7 page document is, per its catalog description, a transmittal of the 1953 CIA Scientific Advisory Panel report (the Robertson Panel) into War Department channels. The OCR is image-only and extremely thin (approximately 800 characters), recovering mainly classification and handling fragments rather than substantive content. Its value here is provenance: it documents the chain of custody by which the CIA panel material reached the Department of Defense, not new analytic content.
Key excerpts
“COSMIC MATERIAL [...] Deliver to OSD Sub-Registry, Classified Records if to be transmitted outside of [the Office of the Secretary] [...] without going through the [...] Office of the Secretary of Defense. (p. 2)”