For a moment entertain the notion that the government, particularly the Executive, was not in 1961 settled with the notion that it would be only a client and not the custodian. Imagine the incoming POTUS was determined to get the UFO package back into White House hands even if it meant smashing the CIA to bits.
Imagine what the CIA would do to that POTUS...
The CIA totally disgusts me—but there is zero evidence that this particular agency is where the “alien” secrets lie.
Elizondo was Pentagon.
Former CIA Director Helms actually joined “The Aviary” (a private group investigating the phenomenon) after he retired from the CIA, not because he had the secrets, but because he wanted to learn about them!