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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE<br />
~ld War Office Building, Whitehall, London. SW lA 2EU<br />
Direct Dial: ---<br />
Switch Board: ~<br />
Ministry of Defence,<br />
DAS4a(Sec),<br />
Room 8243 Main Building,<br />
Horseguards A venue,<br />
.London.<br />
Your Reference;<br />
D/DAS(Sec)/64/3-121h Dec 00<br />
Our Reference:<br />
D/DI55/108/15<br />
Date:<br />
15 Dec 2000<br />
Dr CLARKE's REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO FILES ON UFOs<br />
At your reference above you have asked whether papers up to 1981 on Part 4 of file DI55/108/15<br />
can be released to the PRO. This file was opened on 9th December 1971 and closed on the 11<br />
December 1996 with retention recommended for 10 years.<br />
It is not MoD Policy to spilt or disturb closed files, doing so would be likely to create future<br />
concerns and suspicion when these files are released to PRO.<br />
You also asked for our view on whether MoD should reveal that file part 3 of file D/DI55/40/9/l<br />
has been destroyed. 0155 sees no reason not to be open about the destruction of this file in 1984<br />
but we do not have any information relating to its destruction. You should be aware that DIST<br />
wrote to Hd Sec (AS) on the 4th December 2000 terminating any further involvement of 0155 in<br />
UAP reporting on the grounds that it is not a formal task and that, in 30 years, no evidence has been<br />
found of relevance to DIS interests.<br />
Copy to:<br />
HdDIS(Sy)<br />
AD/DI55<br />
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