(Classified) PILOTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP33-02415A000300120013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Content Type: MF

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TS/CHAL-0715
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MFMORANDUM FOR: Acting Chief, Development Projects Division
25X1X7
REFERENCE : Memorandum to DDCI from AC/DPD, subject
as above, dated 8 July 1959 (TS/CHAL 0714)
1. i agree with the recommendations contained in paragraphs
4a, c, and d of reference memorandum. I am reluctant, however, at
this stage to request the DDCI to go to the Air Force and propose to
them a transfer of responsibility that they will undoubtedly regard as
grasping on our part. I suggest that before any such formal approach is
made we need to do some ground work with selected Air Force officers
in the Pentagon who will, presumably, not be hostile to the suggestion
25X1X7 that the -pilots be folded into our current CHALICE capability.
It is to be hoped that these officers will in turn brief their superiors ,
who would be the people to whom the highest levels of the Air Force
would turn for recommendations when a formal request is made by the
[agency.
2. 1 welcome your suggestions as to how we might best accomplish
this softening up process, but, in any event, it seems to me premature
to ask the DDCI to put the question to the Air Force now.
RICHARD M. BISSELL, JR.
Deputy Director
(Plans)
_F_'nclos ure:
l'S/CHAL-0714, Cys 1 & 2
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