MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR FROM MARSHALL S. CARTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001400040073-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: March 2, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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2 March 1964
a. The NRO has developed into an essentially Air
Force owned and operated component, one of whose
aims is to get the CIA out of the reconnaissance business,
both satellite and aircraft.
b. The Air Force, the D/NRO, and the staff of the
NRO have never been oriented to the intelligence col-
lection responsibility for which NRO was set up.
c. The bulk of those things that have been undertaken
by the Air Force component of NRO have been sloppily
done.
d. Large numbers of actions taken by the NRO are not
coordinated with appropriate elements of the Agency and
in many cases are done without the knowledge of Mr. Kiefer.
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2. We could list a large number of gripes by item to prove
the foregoing. What is needed, however, is a solution to the problem
rather than more discussion of the shortcomings.
3. I ,am personally convinced that as long as the Director,
NRO, is the Under Secretary of the Air Force or has any allegiance
to anyone other than the DCI and SecDef jointly, these jurisdictional
matters will continue.
4. The Air Force and the CIA and any other Governmental
agencies having a capability for NRO must be considered as oper-
ational assets in their entirety and must not be broken down into
small components as part of a line organization under D/NRO.
NRO review(s) completed.
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5. We must have a D/NRO whose principal orientation is
toward intelligence collection and who can utilize through a small
staff on a managerial basis only, the assets of the Air Force
and the Central Intelligence Agency as a whole.
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Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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