SPECIAL PROJECT COPE PACE (Sanitized)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00171R000700260002-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 3, 1978
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
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SUBJECT: Special Project COPE PACE
Acting Director, Program Assessment Office
REFERENCE:
,~ dtd 24 August 1978, to DCI from
D/DCI/RM, Subject: Special Projects GRAVITY
SCORE and COPE PACE
1. ~ Action Requested: That you approve the PAO plan for
visiting pecial Project.COPE PACE (SPCP) and that you sign a memorandum
to the ACSI, USAF, asking that he sponsor the visit.
Background?
a. Special Project COPE PACE (SPCP)--a PACOM CPX--is the
next exercise in which national collection systems will be tasked
to support tactical `,intelligence needs and then evaluated in a
performance sense.
' b. COPE PACE will take place between 23 and 30 October 1978.
Test objectives are summarized in Paragraph 3.c. of the reference.
c. The basic concept for COPE PACE is described in Attach-~
ment 2.
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Reference indicated that you were planning to send
~to COPE PACE as 'an observer.
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a. I would now like to add to our plan
to cover COPE PACE. has been inc u e in the trip
because he will be heavily involved in our study on "Support to
Operating Commanders."
b'. Estimated cost of sending two individuals to the test is
$5,000. _
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c. Proposed memorandum at Attachment 1 identifies those
test-related activities which the PAO observers plan to visit in
both Hawaii and Korea. It also asks that the various commands be
prepared to discuss those PACOM programs included in the FY 80
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d. Proposed memorandum is required because we need to have
someone in DoD sponsor our visit to COPE PACE. Since the Air Force
is the executive agent for the test, we are directing our request
to Maj. Gen. Brown, the AFACSI. The Air Force Action Officer, Maj.
Jerry Reynolds, has been informed of the nature of our request.
4. ~ Recommendations: That you: '
a. Approve sending
and Korea to cover the COPE PACE test.
b. Sign the proposed memorandum at Attachment 1.
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.1. Proposed Memorandum
2. SPCP Concept
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De ut to t e ~ fQr Resource anagement.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, USAF
Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
SUBJECT:
Special Project COPE PACE Visit
REFERENCE: AFSSO Message, dated 29 June 1978, Subject:
Minutes of Special Project COPE PACE Planning
Conference
1. I have asked of
my Program Assessment Office, to visit Special Project COPE PACE during
the period 25 October to 2 November 1978 far the purpose of developing
an appreciation of the problems associated with using national intelli-
gence systems to satisfy, theater intelligence collection requirements.
Since we need someone in!DoD to sponsor the proposed visit, I would
'appreciate it very much if your office could serve as our point of
contact with PACOM in this regard. I would also appreciate it if you
could sponsor a request far theater clearances for these individuals.
2. Objective of this trip is to visit test-related activities in
Hawaii and Korea. The individuals identified above are interested in a
wide range of national/tactical interface issues in which the Director
of Central Intelligence and'I have both a programmatic and budgetary
i nterest.~ '~
3. Proposed itinerary 'would be as follows:
24 October 1978?.- Depart Washington, D.C.
25 October 1978 - Arrive Seoul, Korea
30 October 1978 - Depart Seoul, Korea
30 October 1978 - Arrive Honolulu, Hawaii
2 November 197$ - Depart Honolulu, Hawaii
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4. propose to visit the following
test-related activities on or about the dates indicated below:
Activity
USFK
314th Air Division
I Corps GP
PACOM (IPAC)
PACAF & 548th Technical Group
PACFLT (FICPAC & FOSIF)
Dates
26 October 1978
27 October 1978
28 October 1978
31 October 1978
1 November 1978
2 November 1978
5. In addition, would like to
participate in an informal discussion of the P COM programs included in
the FY 80 National Foreign Intelligence Program. These discussions
should include at a minimum the following subjects: PACOM plans for the
Defense Dissemination Program, PACOM Data Services Center, ADP facility
for Korea and reconnaissance facility for Korea.
6. Request that appropriate BOQ reservations be made in Korea to
support the above visits.' Further request that ground transportation be
arranged. Transportation arrangements may include any combination of
surface and air transportation. Administrative support for the Hawaiian
portion of the trip will be provided for by the CINCPAC Liaison Office in
Honolulu.
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