LETTER TO THE HONORABLE BROCKWAY MCMILLAN FROM MARSHALL S. CARTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001400050020-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 2, 1964
• Content Type: LETTER

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2 October 1964
The I orlorablee Brockway .ictyillan
.:Mrector, National Reconnaissance Office
)epart.nent of Defense
shington, a. C.
This replies to your letter of Septen-fiber 30th recommending the
establish lent of a small comr :itteo to look into the radar cross section
of the OXCART airplane.
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in.view of the importance of this study, I am making t 1r. John
='arangosky. the Deputy for Technology in the t fficee of Special Activi-
s v.hich is responsible for grogram 13, available on a full-time basis
e committee to handle all the detailed arrangements for travel and
meetings. kv, r. -'arangosky is thoroughly familiar with all of the prior
studies on this matter as well as with the - personnel tnv0-1V-ad 25
should therefore not be necessary to assign an additional member from
the NAO Staff to make these arrangerneats and otherwise service the
corn mittee. If the need for military aircraft should arise, and certainly
this would be a great convenience, it would be -Host helpful if you could
lay one on. I don't know how you are fixed for travel funds in the NkC
budget but if this is any problem at all, we can fund it within NRU funds
already made available to the Agency or froo Agency funds direct.
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I consider it preferable to limit the scope of the committee to
the four questions you enumerated in your letter and to the overall
problem of radar cross section and improvements therein. This is
one facet of the overall problem of vulnerability in which members of
the committees are recognized experts. The many other facets such as
enemy air. defense deployments, operational planning for missions,
deception procedures before and during missions, electronic cosr-
measures, and additional factors not listed which make up a total
vulnerability study, should not be charged to this committee. however,
they should have available any and all reviews on the radar cross sec-
tion problem that are available from all the agencies and contractors
who have a band in this problem,
should render a written report to you as Director, NRO, with copies to
NI r. Vance and M r. McCone.
Faithfully yours,
/ sl Pat
Marshall S. Carter
Lteuteuaut General. USA
Deputy Director
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