# Cowey 1979: Memorandum for the Files (synopsis of the CIA scientists' panel on the South Atlantic event)

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# Memorandum for the Files (synopsis of the CIA scientists' panel on the South Atlantic event)

Ross E. Cowey, 1979. _National Security Archive, Nuclear Vault, 8 December 2016 posting, Document 10_.

Memorandum of 10 October 1979 summarising the CIA-sponsored scientists' panel, which found the signals consistent with a nuclear explosion.

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Cowey, R. E. (1979). Memorandum for the Files (synopsis of the CIA scientists' panel on the South Atlantic event). National Security Archive, Nuclear Vault, 8 December 2016 posting, Document 10. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=3227291-10-Memorandum-for-the-Files-by-Ross-E-Cowey
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