Project Artichoke Chairman Faces Clearance Gap in Washington
The declassified Agency control. That framing matters because the single substantive message that follows describes a clearance mismatch at the heart of Project Artichoke's coordination: the chairman of the project was scheduled to be in Washington on a Tuesday, yet held only a SECRET clearance. According to the source document, the chairman was working toward TOP SECRET status but had not yet obtained it.
The message indicates he would appreciate anything that could be done to provide him with instructions or another paper suitable for briefing at a level higher than SECRET. The record also notes that he would advise the exact time of his arrival, and that an official had told him contact would be made on the subject. The OCR text is heavily garbled, so exact wording and identifying details remain uncertain, and no names, specific dates, or locations beyond Washington are clearly readable.
The document is dated…