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• Document Release Date: November 21, 2000
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1. We have just received a copy of the Bureau of the Budget's
memorandum to the Secretary of Defense outlining preview material
on intelligence community programs projected through 1967. This
memorandum is substantially similar to the memorandum addressed to
the DCI on the same subject approximately a month ago. The principal
difference is that the memorandum to Mr. McNamara has eliminated
references of purely parochial interest to CIA.
2. One additional change, however, of very considerable interest
to the Agency and particularly to you is the fact that the following
language has been inserted in this memorandum for the first time:
"a. Overhead reconnaissance collection
1) Financing has been provided in fiscal 1962 and
prior years to initiate the development-procurement
of 10 OXCART vehicles. In formulating the 1963
budget, it was decided to procure 5 more. There is
need for a clear understanding of both the number
of vehicles approved for current programming and the
estimated total requirement during the projection
period."
3. The above language has been substituted for language which I
have quoted in the tab annexed hereto. A meeting between Messrs. McCone,
McNamara, and Bell is scheduled for Tuesday, 31 July, and a briefing of
the Director has been set up for 11:00 a.m., on 30 July. It seems to me
particularly important that we should have complete agreement within the
Agency with respect to the budgetary implications of the program referred
to by the Bureau of the Budget before the briefing of the DCI next Monday.
JOHN A. BROSS
Comptroller
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"a. Overhead reconnaissance collection
1) CIA - In view of the limited program funding flexibility which
CIA has, outside of the contingency reserve for emergencies
and urgent special undertakings, total financial responsi-
bility for major overhead system development strains the
overall agency program capability. For example, CIA assumed
full program financing responsibility in FY 1963 for the first
time for a special project involving the development of a
vehicle in which both CIA and Air Force have an interest.
To accommodate desirable engineering changes and to ensure
meeting current development and operating schedules will
require an estimated amount of amounts
programmed in CIA's FY 1963 budget. Such an additional
amount will. have to be derived from DOD resources, and will
have the effect of significantly increasing CIA's 1963 budget
total. We believe that the Secretary of Defense and the DCI
should reconsider the budgetary responsibility assignments for
special projects in which Defense and CIA have a joint interest."
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