This article was posted by Karl 12 (very knowledgeable) over at alienexpanse. VERY interesting in light of the situation today, and Keyhoe's claims, etc. Crazy stuff.
1st Director of the CIA (1947-1950)
"It is time for the truth to be brought out....Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officials are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense....I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects."
Hillenkoetter, Roscoe; "Aliens from Space", Major Donald E. Keyhoe, 1975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter
Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter (May 8, 1897 – June 18, 1982) was the third director of the post–World War II
United States Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the third
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and the first director of the
Central Intelligence Agency created by the
National Security Act of 1947. He served as DCI and director of the CIG and the CIA from May 1, 1947, to October 7, 1950, and, after his retirement from the
United States Navy, was a member of the board of governors of
National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) from 1957 to 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Brooks#1950
Brooks served on the
U.S. House Committee on Armed Services from 1947 to 1958, and he then became the first chairman of the newly formed House Space Committee (later Science and Astronautics), reportedly because his seniority entitled him to a more important post on Armed Services than he was considered capable of handling. He was reappointed in 1961. It was Brooks who proposed a civilian, rather than military, space program. On May 4, 1961, his committee sent a memo to then
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson on this subject.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy's speech which prompted the development of the
Apollo program was delivered a few weeks later.