TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE OSO/OPC COMMUNICATIONS BOARD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2010
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• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
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T6VTNNTY. -NINTH IvIE~'TING OF THE OSO(OPQ COI~RMUNTCATIONS BOAjRD
25 YEAR
RE-REVIEW
The twenty-ninth meeting of the OSO/OPC Communications Board was held at
2:30 PM, Friday, 20 October 1950. Present were:
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Item I The minutes of the regular meeting of 18 October 1950 were read and
amended to indicate that the.letter to the Commanding General USAF accepting
his position and proposal and the letter to Secretary of State regard-
in- CIA acceptance of the Air Force position would be drafted by
Item 11:
It was reported that mobile unit #2 will be ready for shipment to
on 1 December 1950. Six men will be assigned on TDY to accompany the
unit and place it in dead storage after subjecting the unit to a complete in-
spection upon its arrival. Upon departure of the six technicians,
will then be responsible for the physical
security and protection, of this unit. A letter regarding assistance
is being prepared.
The mobile unit #2, after arrival
readiness so as to provide an emergent
will then be held in
]radio base. In-dis-
cussion it was pointed out that the road network between
was such that the mobile unit could be dispatched to whatever point was deemed
necessary.
Negotiations for the establishment of a fixed radio base in
have reached a point where formal) negotiations for s
base are in order and it has not been decided whether or not such formal negotia-
tions are desirable at this date. This discussion should be continued at the
next meeting of the board.
Upon inclussion of the ammendment, the minutes were approved
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Base
While not on the agenda for the twenty-ninth meeting, the radio
base was brought up out of order as matter of interest. indicated
that the Air Force letter of position regarding the establishment of a radio
base had been referenced to COAPS. Informally, COAPS had indicated
their recommendation was identical with that arrived at b the board during
its twenty-eighth meeting. During discussion on the base, it was agreed
that the services of an individual to work solely on this type of problem was
required. The recruiting of a negotiator for world-wide communications net-
works, grade 15, on either a contract or permanent assignment basis had been
previously recommended and approved. advised the board that an
acceptable applicant is now processing.
New Business
requested a current progress report be presented to the board
and that it be broken doom into four categories: General progress, personnel,
supplies, and special problems.
who had been absent from the board, then raised the follow-
ing questions as to progress on the following projects:
A. RS-6 production - desired to know if C0M!O had re-
ceived the ADSO letter of authorization for expediting production of the RS-6.
In answer to this question stated that the authorization had been.
received and the contract let. The prototype model will be completed by
1 March 1950. Delivery of a small quantity of sets is scheduled for 1 May
1950 with 500 sets delivered by 1 June 1950 and 100 per week thereafter until
completion of the contract.
B. se - sired to know the status of nego-
tiations on th base. stated that base has been
classified as a low priority project and no work had been done on this project
for some time. Formally the project has reached a -point requiring
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D. Relations of Como personnel with other field personnel.
esired to know if this paper was regarded as being of sufficient
importance or inclusion in the new manual of field regulations that was being
prepared for transmission to field stations: stated that Comoro
felt that this was a most important subject and that the sooner this document
was dissiminated to the field, the better.
E. Equipment stock levels - desired to know what was
being done by Commo to get equipment stock levels that had been established
by the board. After considerable discussion, Comoro a eed to submit a report-
showing present stock levels on agent equipment, then suggested
that such a report be presented monthly by Commo for the information of the
board until such time as the agreed stock levels had been reached. Mr.
agreed to submit such,a report, while dissenting that it was properly
the concern of the board.
F. Commo mobilization plan - wanted to know what was
the status of the Commo mobilization plan. commented that prelim-
inary copies of the mobilization plan had been routed to OPC and OSO, pending
gomments from these offices, no further action was being taken.
requested that the establishment of a radio station
be scheduled for discussion at the next meeting.
asked of the status of the packaged stations.
that Commo had provided packaged stations in
for emergency use. To meet the problem for other areas,
Commo had packaged the essential requirements for radio stations and is hold-
ing the units at the warehouse. These units are capable of meeting emergency
communications requirements that might arise in the future.
I. asked the status of Commo with regard to the
National Production Aut it y. stated that the Engineering depart-
ment, acting upon request, was in the process of correlating
its requirements for the National Production Authority. The problem was com-
plicated, however, by an additional requirement, which asked for a tabulation
of the number of pounds of aluminium, copper, and brass, etc., that was re-
quired. It is understood that this can be a very general estimate and no
difficulty is anticipated.
then asked whether cables relative to the establish-
tne,RV of the "FG a "J" and nG" stations had been transmitted. As of this time,
reference cables had been dispatched.
SEACA
asked for the definition of SEACA along with its purpose.
explained that SEACA represented the Southeast Asia Communications
Activity, and that its purpose primarily was for the establishment of an overt
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c`ormlunications activity for and to su ort CIA
Operation of the activity in general would
be along the lines of the MEGA net. To date, personnel have been selected,
and authority has been granted to establish the ou -
Department is now endeavoring to obtain Permission
to establish the base
In order to further f e with the
Communications Division, equested that 15 minutes of each board
meeting be set aside for the presentation of an outline of the organization
and function of the various component's of the Division. Each overseas area
along with headquarters could be covered and discussion would include current
capabilities, future planning, special problems and equipment available. It
was asked if this presentation could possibly be given to the area chiefs of
OSO and OPC in the new OPC Lecture Room. After discussion, it was agreed that
the decision on presenting this material to all area chiefs would be given
later, after the board had appraised ithe value of the talks to the board
members. A
It was recommended that weekly meetings of the board shall be held on
Wednesday afternoon, at 3:00 PM, until such time as the 'board is caught up
,,with its activities.
It was agreed that~ radio base will be discussed at the next
scheduled meeting. Also to be discussed will be the relation between communi-
cations and other station personnel in the field,
The meeting was adjourned at 4:40 PM.
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