Doc 0000148083
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This declassified CIA memorandum from May 18, 1951, discusses a meeting regarding "BLUEBIRD" and notes that CIA participation in related discussions should be limited to two people.
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Ask the archive about this →, • I I • l.ii:i!oMNl.ltn.l Fcm: Deputy I~irccto~ SLIDJCCT: i.lce t.iuc re BLVEJJIIID • 1. ST r the oth~r ·subject of rc:;c;u~ch nnc1 dr:-!vclop rnent in relation to the DLtr:niRD problem. CIA i:; invi t0<.1 to pro·;. ide not more th:~.n t~7o people to participate :in thi::; lat. Lor discus:;ion. . Jt i:; de0 keep t,/11';) ::1ttcmdonce in thc:;e s0r:.';jions ~:::; :;r1aJ.l a~ p•:~:;:::il)le <.1 npprcc.i.ate our limiting US participa.""lts to four-two two from CI/i. 3. The m~ctin:; and discus:::;ion of DLIJE!)IHD arc to be w1dcr:>tood a~ ·ent~rely unofficial in nature, involv:i.ng di:::;c_ns:::;ions bctwr;on indi viduals concerned with this problem rather t.r.an off.i.r:ial. mcctin,:::; of r,overnr.lent rcpr~senta tive:;. The code '\'lOrd used 11'3rcin i:::;' . 0 r C0u:':5C!' our own desicnation and not officially recognized throllr.:hout the sro,J_:;. . ... ,., ··' -·· ,,·' ·.' /\ -rr ·' ...... .· .- .. \ \ . l·' .
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The page is a declassified CIA memorandum dated May 18, 1951, regarding a "Meeting re BLUEBIRD." It contains handwritten annotations in the margins and at the top of the page, including "A/B, 4, 23/12" and "H-B/6 F" and "B/6 F" and "A B/3 Scientific Intelligence A" at the bottom. There are multiple large, black redactions obscuring portions of the text, primarily in the main body of the memorandum. No photographs, diagrams, forms, or visual evidence of experimental procedures are present.
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