AD HOC REQUIREMENTS COMMITTEE ON PROJECT AQUATONE (ARC)

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: March 15, 1958
• Content Type: MIN

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TS COMMITTEE ON PROJECT AQUATONE (ARC)
Minutes of Meeting Hold in Room 214
Administration Building, Central Intelligence Agency
at 10?00 a,m,, 15 March 1958
James Q. Reber
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Colonel William A. Dodds, GAGSI
Lt, Cot, Harold E, Snow, Jr. OACSI
Commander J, M, Larson,, 1
Major Donald Conroy, ONI
..-t. Comdr, Fred A, Mush!, ON!
Colonel James H. Macia, Jr., AFCIN
Lt. Col. George J. Keithley, AFC1N
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1, Efforts to define certain types of operational information; required
by certain users of TALENT FLINT (as previously attempted in ARC-M-77,
TCS-Z677.S$, paragraph) resulted as fatlowst
a, ELINT processors and analyst interpreters who would
a altitude, track, and time -?- to the minute in some-cases;
day and hour in others,
b. A small group of advisers to Committee members on the
subject of requirements (Research is Development technicians,
targeting experts) -.- who would require attitude and total recording
time of tape including total distance cc -erable as represented by
this tape time.
was present only for the first item on the agenda.
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Intelligence evaluators who interpret processed ?T
data and combine it with other sources of electronic intelligence
for the purpose of taxning out a finished piece of analysis,, These
men need to compare the actual FLINT data collected with the
capability of the ELINT collection effort as it was used in the
particular operation that collected the data in order to give full
aping to the Intercepted data,. These men would require altitude,
k, and time.
Z. It was speculated that the foregoing individuals would number
in the order of 150 to 800. The Chairman stated that he would provide the
foregoing to the Project Security Officer for guidance as to what new device
he wished to introduce for security control of the types of information which
had been defined, (Previous analysis has shown that Ple require altitude
and track and in some cases time - time being also relevant on occasion to
those using COMINT and other sources.)
rare* representative stated that whereas he did not
believe It wise to establish additional security classifications it might
possibly be more effective to establish grades of certification within the
TALENT system such aras TALENT Grade One, Grade Two, and Grad*
Three. In any event, the Air Ia''orce would do its best to accommodate
whatever was proposed except that the proposal would have to include
some means for the TALENT Security Officer in his agency being fully
acquainted with who in the Air Force was given this additional Information
in order to be able to answer promptly on the status of all Air Force
TALENT cleared personnel.
4. The Ad Hoc Requirements Committee was requested by the
Project Director to advise him on requirements for peripheral ELT
collection by System Four.
In considering this matter, the Air Force representative
a. It was his understanding that AQUATONE operations were
to be directed exclusively on penetrations of the Soviet Bloc or
other denied areas.
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b, There are in existence authorities for peripheral L T
collection in the Department of Defense and equipment for such
planned or in being,
C' Because of the two foregoing points he considered it
inappropriate for the Committee to advise on requirements for
A010ATO E peripheral &LINT collection,. (The previous instance
of Ad 14oc Requirements Committee requirements for SARENTS
Sea during the Soviet fleet maneuvers in October 1957 is explained
by the Air Force representative as an occasion where a unique
opportunity for collection exist*d and for which no capability was
available other than AQUATONE,)
6. The Navy representative, indicated the importance of insuring
that any AQUATONE peripheral ELINT collection flights be property
coordinated with comparable nights by Navy.
7. The i:LINT Staff Officer expressed the view that the AQUATONE
System Four capability for collection by peripheral missions was in addition
to that which either exists or is programmed in the Air Force (except the
Air Force planned use of the same vehicle). This is not to say, he pointed
out, that those, i, e,, Air Forte capabilities, could not collect useful and
e data as compared to AQUATONE,
S. The EL `T Staff Officer proposed that AQUATtlNE peripheral
L 1'T System Four collection should be directed at the following areas,,
listed in order of importances
Priority Ones Gulf of FINLAND - LENINGRAD,
BARENTS Sao -,? NOVAYA ZEMLYA.
Priority Twat KAMCHATKA Peninsula.
C. Priority Threst North Siberian Coastline -o.. in particular,
airfields in the area.
d. Priority Tours Southern periphery of Soviet
Priority Fives Russi*n ice Islands in the Arctic Ocean.
(it would appear that in this instance photographic coverage might
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also be useful. In the event that the suggestion of the Army
member for concurrent photographic coverage were feasible,
it was then thought by the E LINT Staff Officer that this priority
would be raised; he suggested that concurrent photographic
coverage might be feasible through the use of System Six.)
9. The views expressed above by the FLINT Staff Officer were
concurred in by the Arm"r Navy, and the representative of the DD/I CIA,
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