SCIENTIFIC PANEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66R00546R000200130018-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 12, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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2 November 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Science & Technology)
SUBJECT: Scientific Panel
25X1A5a1
1. On Friday you informed me that had
expressed a fear that their participation in the Panel to study
photographic resolution might involve them in a restraint-of-
trade situation which would bring them under a threat of anti-
trust action. I have discussed terms of reference of this Panel
with the Deputy Attorney General, and he agrees that as outlined
no question of restraint of trade would arise out of the meetings
of this group. An important element is to establish the record
that the group is organized by CIA and that we are providing the
staffing for the meetings, and it is equally important that a
detailed record of the meetings be kept by an Agency representa-
tive which could be used to demonstrate that the industries'
representatives were not meeting on questions involving
restraint of trade.
2. I would be glad to discuss with you or your staff
any further questions that may arise in this connection.
25X9A5
General Counsel
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12 NOV 1963
DD/S&T 2024-63
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Suggested Outline for Remarks to
Satellite Photography Study Group
1. This memorandum contains a brief outline of
appropriate remarks for the Director's presentation to the
members of the Satellite Photography Study Group. The Group
will convene at NPIC at 9:00 a. m. on Wednesday, 13 November.
The Director's remarks are scheduled for 9:45 a.m. and we
believe a fifteen minute period would be appropriate for the
purpose.
2. It is suggested that the Director stress the
following five points in his address:
a. Intelligence plays an ever-increasing role
in the formulation of national policy. Its contri-
bution today is of the greatest significance to
the policy makers of this government. Examples of
the significance are seen in the "Cuban Missile"
crisis of October 1962, and in the fact that the
photographic intelligence capability of the
United States forced an abandonment of the Soviet
practice of soft missile sites.
b. The United States Government has out an
4 increasingly significant weight on the product of
photographic intelligence since 1956. This
capability today represents a national asset of
great magnitude.
C. Realizing the tremendous weight given to
the product of photographic intelligence, DCI
convened the Purcell Panel to study the efficacy
of the camera systems being used for photographic
intelligence. Their findings indicated that a
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grater notenttal than that yet realixed was
i orati ne amt yet undertaken held nr wi f, r a
higher quality virMUCt.
Ixperi*ne* in this field has indleated that
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x~raalis~a-ti s . f Feziarumm serfor ance has been iehttaiteas
amsntati.on. 'his has precluded the c +a fete and
cestinutng feed-back fact,3:r fr analyst* t collec-
tors. > has ta' .n steps to correct this eituattnv
sG that all possible meta aRy be available t,
insure mmaziaaum erf+rasae rsf any ayst*mm.
0. All these facts have contributed to t
e vening -if this unique gathering, a oa i
tstanding Industrial., seademia *ad governue
talent, for the pvrpc$? Of e nsidertng a auti'asaei
task of the highest pririty. TDCI expects all of
you to rise &b ow* corpGrato or per$sa*l interest.
App iati.Vf is ezpressed to each f y a
25X1 A9asnd f'r any pBrs*nm l i*Cnawemi"ee tha-
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3. Attached for your inf*rust ion is a i i.st ia9
icipant* in the Pagel, and a copy of the agenda
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