U. S. agency has a secret U F O and the ability to disable, remotely, Soviet missiles and atom bombs. THEY will blame it on the space aliens. Published before 1968.

[Bob]

The Government(?) invented some phony UFO's to bring about disarmament.
I think they had technology to make nuclear missiles in Russia fail to work.

[Andy]

Was this a short story or a novel?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Bob, please add genre and plot details to your header so that people can help you more efficiently. Many people don't click unless they know it's a genre they already read.

What year did you read it or when was it published? Author male or female? Cover art?

[Bob]

In Vietnam we got withdrawn paperbacks and each was torn into two or three pieces. There was never a cover. Sometimes you would read the 3rd piece, and maybe some day you'd get part two or one, maybe not. We would sometimes try to make up the missing parts and argue about them.
So, it was published before 1968.

[Kris]

Bob, what's the tone or genre - thriller, action, science fiction, satire, non-fiction, etc.?

[Bob]

Science fiction. Reminded me of Heinlein's "Sixth Column" or A E VanVought's "Not This August" in that there is a great scientific discovery that nobody but the Military scientists know about.

[Kaion]

Bob, you might consider crossposting in the SciFi Fantasy Group's lost book section: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

[Bob]

U. S. agency has a secret U F O and the ability to disable, remotely, Soviet missiles and atom bombs. THEY will blame it on the space aliens.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Bob, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Bob]

Yes. The idea was to make the whole world join together to fight the imaginary outer space guys.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Still looking now?

[Bargle]

There was an episode of "The Outer Limits" with this general idea. It was called "The Architects of Fear", but there doesn't seem to have been a novelization.

[Kris]

FYI. Wikipedia's description of "The Architects of Fear" (from "The Outer Limits" TV series) - Bargle's suggestion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arc...