PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF CIA ORGANIZATIONAL PROPOSAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00508R000100030014-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 12, 1965
• Content Type: PAPER

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PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF CIA ORGANIZATIONAL PROP
A. ROLE OF THE EXECUTIVE COM TTEE:
An Executive Committee, consisting of the Deputy Secretary
of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence, will be
established to formulate. guide, and regulate the NRP. Specifically
the Executive Committee will;
1. Examfae the reconnaissance requirements provided
by USIB against technical and fiscal capabilities. so as to
establish an appropriate level of effort for the NRP. In
this role it will rely largely on cost effectiveness and
technical feasibility analyses prepared by the DNR and the
component elements of the NR Organization.
2. Approve or modify the consolidated NR program
and its budget as forwarded by the DNR.
3. Acting through the DNR, allocate responsibility
to CIA and/or DOD for research and preliminary design
studies for new systems.
4. Allocate development responsibility for specific
onnaissance programs to DOD or CIA, and establish
NRO review(s) completed.
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guidelines for mutual support where appropriate. It shat
be free to use technical advisory groups as necessary.
S. Assign operational responsibilities to either DOD
or CIA for various types of manned overflight missions,
subject to the concurrence, as appropriate, of the 303
Committee.
. Review periodically the essential features of the
major program elements of the HRP.
ROLE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE:
To insure the coordination of CIA and DOD reconnaissance
activities and to provide a eiegle point of integration for the planning
eting of the National Reconnaissance Program., a Director
National Reconnaissance will be appointed by the Secretary of
Defense with the concurrence of the Director of Central Intelligence,
who will report to the Executive Committee on all matters affecting
the NRP. Specifically. he will:
1. Be kept fully and completely informed of all
reconnaissance activities in CIA and DOI'.
2. Coordinate CIA and DOD izse of the space launching.
tracting and recovery facilities.
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3. Coordinate film processing of CIA and DO
activities so as to make best use of the primary
ak facility at Rochester,
4. Prepare a coordinated and consolidated NRP
budget for examination and approval by ExCom. This
et will be based on submissions from appropriate
elements of CIA and DOD,
5. Ensure the fin
(RP appro-
priations to CIA and appropriate DOD elements in lump sum
transfers each fiscal year. Incremental funding from reserve
or reprogramming sources will be used only for supplemental
programs approved by ExCom.
6. Deal with the operating head of the, CIA or his
designated alternate on all matters of policy, coordination,
or guidance. He will not sxerc
operating elements of CIA or its par**
7. Assume such command responsibilities over DOD
elements of the NRP as the Secretary of Defense may designate.
tablish suitable lines of coordination with those
line components which do not respond direct
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8. Sit with the USIB for the matters affecting the NRP.
9. Appear before the 303 Committee with appropriate
operating elements of CIA or DOD to secure approval for
ovaerhead reconnaissance mission
RESEARC,H AND PRELIMINARY DESIGN:
1. Research on a reconnaissance technology and
preliminary design of now systems will be encourage
supported in both CIA and DOD. It will be supported by a
cation from NRP funds to each group In like
measure at a level to be estabished each year by the
00-
. A. prescribed fraction of these resources --
perhaps 20% to 40% -- will be earmarked for support of basic
research on reconnaissance technology to stimulate and assure
the future vigor of this field. The BM will be kept fully
informed of all activities and developments in this connection
purpose of ensuring appropriate coordination and
preventing unwitting duplication as well as encouraging joint
exploitation of new techniques.
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. Preliminary design and email technical feasibili
demonstrations of new reconnaissance systems will also be
funded from this innovation resource. Such work can. grow
out of requirements originating with USIB, the ExCom
the DNR for improvements in existing capabilities, or can
Alit from spontaneous initiative in the CIA and DOD
participating elements. However, it is important
DNR and ExCom receive each month a comprehensive report
on, status, or conclusion of such efforts.
way. competitive study efforts will be recognized.
roved or discouraged, and synchronised for later
decision actions.
4. It is intended that these funds and their products
represent the flexible cutting edge of the reconnaissance
program. They should not be used to fund actual developme
or operational activities.
D. SYSTEMS JD
sufficiently
w system concept
well defined and its technical feasibility established to the
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satisfaction of the .ExCom, it would be included in the
inventory of the NRP. At this point, it should receive necessary
funding from line items to the budget identified with these
systems. Those funds would then be allocated to CIA sad /or
DOD, to whom specific developn enta,l responsibility has been
assign
The eleen
CIA and/or
spon*l ility for a new system
selecting and sups
signed deveioprteot
sponsible for
capable contractors; for establis ing
such systems engineering support as they doom nocog~
for rendering periodic reports on program progress to the
DNR and ExCom and generally for the success of the program.
to recanna se"ce
primarily by the payload /cameras. spacecraft. data recovery
systore a -
well as by their boosters. The interface between
the
the launch system and payload is of critica
planning for compatible checkout and launch facilities, boosters,
traces, and recovery must proceed with. the payload
development. The DNR will be rem , ~ . , ,.... ?,
iatrnsiia-le for the succeoa of
arrfac.ee.
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4. A normal phase of satellite development progra
Mal flight testing in orbit and engineering proof
of the completed payload system. These flight tests will be
the primary responsibility of the payload developing group
in CLA or DOD, which would be expected to include as many
intelligence targets as are consistent with the primary develop-
ment so that any film recovered would have intelligence value.
When a system had been successfully demonstrated and
declared operationally reliable, It would enter the operational
phase.
. ROUTS OPERATIONAL PHASE
. When the satellite payload has been successfully
developed, it becomes a part of the operational assets of the
NRP. The payloads together with appropriate boosters,
launchers and tracking stations represent the 1!P eapabilt
to obtain orbital photography, and accordingly represent
part of an orderly program to acquire such intelligence in
response to 1TSIS requirements, target lists and priorities.
The D NR must play the central role in planning this program.
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it involves far- sighted budgeting for payload production
well as booster procurement and modification. It involves
judicious scheduling of operational launches from fixed
resources, in addition to development flight tests. It
requires a plan with sufficient flexibility to respond to
changing world situations and the corresponding intelligence
needs. It is a complex managerial task for which a single
individual mast in the last analysis be responsible.
2. Both the long range requirements for satellite
Ling targets for specific flights come
properly from the intelligence cornmunity in which all elements
of the Government have a voice. The community has named
COMOR as ie staff to provide these requirements in an
rly way, subject to approval by USIB.
3. The Satellite Operation
r is the next step
in that sequence of events. Its function is to plan specific
mission coverage in light of COMOR target requirements.
it does so by first studying the spectrum of orbital choices
available. These are supplied by various groups on the West
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represent specific launch vehicle propulsion
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capabilities, current range safety restrictions, etc. These
feasible orbits are then computer analyzed in Washington
to Optimize target coveragg
angle. predicted
weather conditions and target priorities. An orbit Is selected
and camera programs established for this mission. This
is basically an intelligence function.
4.
to the case of CORONA coverage,
SOC bas played a central role in detera
ephemeris
of the mission and transmitting computerised guidance to the
launch authority. Until the spring of 1963, the Satellite
Operations Canter was located at A Headquarters next to
Ct3M R where it was used
flights and was in immediate co
Coast facilittes. It was then moved
view to extending Its functions to Intl
a CORONA and ARGON
Fith the West
Pentagon with a
LANYARD#
h mission guidance to these programs is not yet determined,
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by the SOC largely because of their continued classification
as R&D fliaahts. T
intel e
sed to provide the
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. Although most of the responsibility of the developing
team is fulfilled when a satellite payload is declared operational.
there are persuasive arguments for exle
indefinitely into the operational phase. The mo
argument is that payloads systems are being coatin
sponaibility
-- and should be. The remarkable improvement of
CORONA from rnoaoscopic to stereo and then to doubled film
capacity via double recovery
is an example. . rther
more.. these are extremely delicate instruments and no two
payloads from a given system are quite allke. Continuity froxr.
launch is therefore essential. This does not mean that the
contractor should fire a THOR or ATLAS. It does
a that there is no
production or operationa:
sequence when a can safely eliminate the payload team
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completely fro
ati.. The CORONA prograu
eogullsed this and has representatives of CIA. and its
contractors present at each step of an operational mis
but with varying degrees of authority.
a satellite payload is launched in orbi
enters a crucial period of real time tracking, monitoring and
I. Tracking and telemetry recording from low altitude
photography is accomplished by Air "oree stations. This
data is transmitted to Sunnyvale. California, where the
eperati
run. In the case of CORONA. inflight decisions
include decisions to recover if a mat ctton is suspected and
transmissions of camera program changes received from the
SOC to the satellite so as to take advantag, of changing weather.
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