DRAFT MEMO TO ACCOMPANY DDI RESERVATION TO DDS&T MEMO DATED ___________________

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Aquiline
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02624162
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: July 16, 2020
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2020
• Publication Date: November 20, 1970

Approved for Release: 2019/11/05-0O2624162
'vow'2J.urT 11� I
DRAFT
20 Nov 1970
H SUBJECT: Draft Memo to Accompany DDI Reservation to
DDSEtzT Memo Dated
1. The Directorate of Intelligence will continue to provide
geographic and cartographic support to Project Aquiline during the
remainder of its development and testing phases and to the extent
feasible in consideration of other demands on the available
resources.
2. It is my understanding that the manhours and equipment time
necessary to support Aquiline in its operational phase would be very
substantial, would require major adjustments in geographic and carto-
graphic plans and programs, and, in fact, could exceed our means.
Accordingly, I feel I must withhold an open-ended commitment pending
careful study and clarification by the Aquiline group of the amounts,
kinds, and time schedules of geographic and cartographic support
required.
3. I want to express concern that the precise locational and
elevation data required for the Aquiline navigational system may not
r
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downFrOrg and
Approved for Release: 2019/11/05 CO2624162
Approved for Release: 2019/11/05 CO2624162
NNW - lowe
be attainable for many areas of Communist China and, in any case,
require careful and time-consuming compilation.
4. I should also like to call to your attention the fact that our
ability to support Aquiline in an operational phase will depend very
heavily on
willingness and ability to make major
adjustments in its production program. Moreover, it may also be
necessary to levy very heavy requirements on the photogrammetric
equipment of
Indeed, the requirements may surpass
capabilities. Our dependence upon an outside agency
for our own input to the Aquiline project may pose a critical obstacle
over which we have no control.
Approved for Release: 2019/11/05 CO2624162
Approved for Release: 2019/11/05 CO2624162
23 No, 70
Hand-carried
by with note from
- - Does this draft give
you and
enough to work on?
Approved for Release: 2019/11/05 CO2624162