OVERSEAS HANDLING, PROCESSING AND REPORTING OF SENSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00159R000400040045-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: May 3, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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UNITED STATES I'NT ELLIGENCE BOA.RD
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT Overseas Handling, Processing and Reporting of
Sensitive Photography
REFERENCES : a.
b.
c.
USIB-D-41. 11/4 (COMOR-D-36/4), 1 June 1965
USIB-D-41. 11/5 (COMOR-D-36/5), 11 June 1965
Memorandum for Holders of USIB-D-41. 11/5,
6 July 1965
USIB-D-41. 11/6 (COMOR-D-36/6),
24 August 1965, Limited Distribution
Item 2, USIB-M-402, 16 September
USIB-D-69.3 / 1, 17 January 1967,
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1. During the USIB Meeting of 16 September 1965 (reference e. ),
it was agreed that it would be best to defer completion of USIB action on
the report by the Ad Hoc Committee on Overseas Processing and Reporting
chaired by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) (reference a. )
pending completion of a major study of photo-interpretation facilities which
had been requested by the Bureau of the Budget.
2. The results of this study were contained in the report of the
Joint Imagery Interpretation Review Group ( JIIRG ). The Director of
Central Intelligence in reference f. informed the Board of the approval
by him and the Deputy Secretary of Defense of the recommendations by the
JIIRG. As indicated therein, the USIB was identified as the authority
responsible for monitoring and coordinating the implementation and .,
execution of the N ti n al Tasking Plan. The National Tasking Plan provides
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will be in consonance with USIB decisions, and that first-phase exploitation
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of USIB-tasked Penetration missions processed overseas will be conducted
by the appropriate in accordance with USIB-approved procedures. 25X1
3. Mr. Helms also informed the Board that he was asking Mr. John
Bross, his Deputy for National Intelligence Programs Evaluation, to
review and make recommendations to USIB on the way the Board manages its
responsibilities related to overhead reconnaissance and its exploitation.
By separate memorandum (reference g. ), the USIB is being asked to
consider recommendations by Mr. Bross for the establishment of a
Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation (COMIREX) which
would, in addition to other duties, assist the Board in carrying out its
responsibilities based on the JIIRG report.
4. The Chairman of USIB also requested that the Executive Secretary
undertake those actions necessary to permit final consideration by the
USIB of the subject of I I, 25X1
taking into account the approved Recommendation 4. of the JIIRG.
5. Following consultation with representatives of CIA, DIA, and
NRO it is recommended that the USIB now take the following actions with
respect to the Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on Overseas
Processing and Reporting contained in paragraphs 11. a. through e.
respectively of Enclosure B to reference a. :
a. Approve the statement on "Policy and Procedures for
Overseas Handling, Processing and Reporting on Selected
Nationally Programmed Photographic Reconnaissance
Missions (Excluding Satellite Reconnaissance), " in Tab
A of that Enclosure, subject to the following amendments:
(1) Assign the tasks specified in paragraph 5. b. to
the Committee on Imagery Requirements and
Exploitation (COMIREX) in place of the Committee
on Overhead Reconnaissance (COMOR).
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(2) Revise paragraph 5. d. (2) (a) by adding "through
Unified and Specified Commands" as requested
by DIA in reference d.
(A copy of that statement as amended is shown in the
attachment hereto. )
b. Concur thati
for the processing and reporting of the photographic results
of nationally programmed reconnaissance missions in the
Far East, as assigned and certified after technical review
by NRO_
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or European theater, its certification to await 25X1
a technical review by NRO.
d. Concur that the NRO give consideration to readjustment
in the present arrangements for processing of Far Eastern
II reconnaissance missions looking.. toward the utilization of
1 whenever this is advantageous, and that at the
4 institution of any new program the use of ~e given
prime consideration.
e. Direct that the Committee on Imagery Requirements
and Exploitation (COMIREX), in consultation with recon-
naissance management authorities, should continually
review and update policies and procedures of mutual concern
relating to the effective interface of overseas operational,
processing, exploitation, and reporting activities involving
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(This paragraph is in accordance with Recommendation 4
of the JIIRG report, and is a substitute for paragraph 11. e.
of the Ad Hoc Committee report. )
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6. Board members are requested to advise the USIB Secretariat
by close of business 18 May of their concurrence in or other views on
the proposed actions contained in paragraph 5 of the :above.
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