PROJECT AQUILINE POLICY, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Aquiline
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02378405
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• Document Creation Date: July 16, 2020
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2020
• Publication Date: January 1, 1969

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Attached is a draft of the proposed charter for
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Special Activities
Director of "Research and Development
SUBJEC.T : Project AQUILINE Policy, Functions and
Responsibilities
REFERENCE Project AQUILINE Concept of Operations,
AQUI 0001-69
GENERAL
� The AQUILINE Concept of Operations expressed in reference
is approved. This memorandum prescribes policy and delineates
functions and responsibilities for that Program.
STATEMENT OF POLICY
A. Sponsorship, support and management of AQUILINE will
be wholly through CIA resources and auspices.
B. The objective is to provide CIA with an Intelligence vehicle
uniquely fitted to mobile, covert employments. AQUILINE Project
Managers will program and insure the execution of the development
and operational activities necessary for the collective attainment of
this objective.
FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
A. Director of Research and Development will:
(1) Serve as Program Manager and have overall �
development responsibility for satisfactory completion of the
Research and Development phase of Project AQUILINE.
(2) Collaborate with Office of Special Activities and other
interested Agency Organizations to establish and insure that the
operational employment requirernents of the users are made an
integral part of the development considerations.
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(3) Providc technical monitors and technical assiStance,
as required, to 01:7ice of Special Activities for the life of the
program.
B. Director of Special Activities will:
(1) Serve as Program Manager and have overall
responsibility for the operational phase of Project AQUILINE.
(2) Establish specific requirements for the logistic and
maintenance support of the flight test and operational phases of
the program.
(3) Collaborate with Office of Research and Development
to insure that the system and operational support programs
include logistic and maintenance considerations which can be
supported and operated during the operational phase.
(4) Conduct the contracting and procurement for all
aspects of the operational phases of the program.
(5) Establish specific requirements for the ov.ei rall security
of the test, training and operational phases of the program.
(6) Establish and backstop the overall cover plans and
iriolicy for the test, training and operational phases- of the program.
(7) Organize,, man, train and command the field unit
_responsible for the operational employment of the program.
(8) Conduct operational tests and evaluations of the project
equipments and assigned field unit personnel for the purposes of
determining the operational status of the project.
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(9) Plan, develop and procure adequate and timely training
for the field unit personnel.
(10) Develop, prepare and implement the concept of
operations, operational policy, operational plans and overall
program doctrine for the operational phases of the project.
CARL- E. DUCKETT
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