ADVANCED RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT

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• Publication Date: December 27, 1966
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MEMORANDUM FOR : The Honorable W. W. Rostow
Special Assistant to the President
SUBJECT : Advanced Reconnaissance Aircraft
Further to our telephone conversation of this date, this
Agency feels that the draft memorandum on this subject prepared
by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget does not quite fully
reflect the opinion of the Director of Central Intelligence in that:
The SR -71 aircraft cannot yet be considered
essentially interchangeable with the A -12 for operational
purposes because the A-12 has been fully operational for
one year and has already demonstrated greater performance
for peace time reconnaissance missions than has the SR-71,
which has not yet achieved an operational capability.
/S/ Ruf' s Taylor
Rufus Taylor
Acting Director
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506
July 6, 1966
Thank you for your letter of June. 27, 1966 to Dr. Hornig
concerning his request for an updating of the NIE on the Soviet
space program. He is currently out of town and I am taking the
liberty of replying for him.
The Joint Space Panels of the President's Science Advisory
Committee, for whose studies of the U. S. space program plans
Dr. Hornig requested the new NIE, will be meeting at Newport, R. I.
during the week beginning July 25, 1966. Since Dr. Hornig and the
concerned members of the OST staff will also be at Newport during
that week, it will not be possible to take advantage of your invitation
for participation in the July 28 - 29 meeting of your consultants.
However, your kind offer to make available your consultants' panel
report, pertinent briefings by experts from your agency on this
report and on the relevant sections of NIE 11-1-65, 27 January 1965,
and the consultants' February 1966 report, is most welcome, and
we plan to take advantage of it.
In view of the discussion in your letter, and the prospects that
the Joint Space Panels needs will be met by the special arrangements
you have suggested, please consider our request for an urgent up-
dating of NIE 11-1-65 as withdrawn.
Sincerely yours,
Colin M. MacLeod
Acting Director
The Honorable Richard Helms
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
S&T Control No.1107
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