TELECON THIS MORNING CONCERNING ANY OSA ACTIVITIES WHICH COULD PUT THE AGENCY INTO AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION.

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• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: May 7, 1973

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1.\(iF!::\AORANDIM4. FOR: Deputy Director for .Science. and Technology .
ST.TB3E,CT:�
this
concc-rning :-,riy�OSA
(.7c,uld put�the Agency-In.to.an
embarrassing situation. �
1. There are no missions which we have flown during the last four
years with which I-can associate the result directly to any activity
potentially embarrassing to the Agency. There were a number of missions
flown that indirectly have the potential for this embarrassment. Bear in
mind that once we turn the film over to NPIC or any other agency, we
have no control over subsequent distribution.
Th missions listed on the attachment are in three categories:
a.- :category A: These are missions flown in the U.S.
that are very .sinaila.r to the potential that you discussed with me
using the example of the Santa Barbara oil disaster.
ategory B: The COMPASS TRIP (detection of illicit
poppy gr'ov.Q is a separate category because of the high sensitivity
of this subject.
c. Category C: When we were developing LONG SHA.FT,
the system was tested in the U. S. In effect, we were "wire
tapping" domestic microwave transmission. Although to our
knowledge nothing sensitive was picked up, in the broad sense
this activity could be labeled illegal.
3. I have specifically looked to see where our U-2's were
operating during the Watergate break-in discovery, Democratic National
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T., L.: BEVA,
General, USAF
Director of Special Activities
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CATEGORY A
Santa Barbara Oil
Disaster.
HILLTOP
Snow Survey :
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I-Iurricane Base
Line
Ea.rthqua.ke Damage
4 S
Minneapolis -
Kansas City
Dept. Of Inte3.-ior..
b 1969.
ORD/NASA Earth Resources
Programs. Spring/Fall 1969
Environmental Science Services
Administration (ESSA),
of Commerce thru COMIREX.
Spring 1969.
Office of Economic Prepared-
ness. Spring 1970.
Self generated, NPIC processed.
Feb 1971.
OSI/A.EC
1972.
Jan - Mar
TOP SECRET
POSSIBLE IMP L1
Pot01,tial for providing.ba.siS or..
� �
criminal lam., suits. .Pi.esSUl'e on
oil company to change operation.
� Possible 1.1z�; for industrial
exploitation. .Crop
control & estimates flitUZ.0 market.
Industrial exploitation. Water
resource allocation.
Political leverage or qisaster,
area funds.
Political leverage. .-Criminal�
negligence suits. estruetin
.�� exploitation...
Environmental appli:ca.tIons.,
urban plarming;
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BY WHOM/WHEN
CATEGORY A (continued)
RIVER BOATfr\%, � �.)1, s)) NRO - ICRS. April 1973.
West Virginia Dana
Site Coverage
CATEGORY B
COMPASS TRIP
(Puerto Rico), -.Multi
. �
Spectral .Sensor
-
CATEGORY C
LONG SHAFT
NRO - Army Corps of
Engineers. Jan/Feb 1973.
B,NDD, DDI/CIA, NPIC, ORD.
Dept. of Agriculture. Fall 1972.
NSA/CIA COMINT collection.
Started in Jan 1970.
POSSIBLE IMP L1CA.'IO
Political leverage. IndustrIal
exploitation, civil ciarnae suits.
Potential for real eia
exploitation, water cont 01,
CIA extension of dope tr:,1::cking
from SEA to CONUL;. 3otter
techniques to avoid detectiOn o.
growth.
Can be used to monit.or domestic.
microwave txansrsiQnJJ.
Airborne "'.3.0"G".