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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R002600080007-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 15, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Washington 25, D. C.
15 December 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable McGeorge Bundy
Special Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
This memorandum is in reference to NSAM #208 dated December
6 transmitting a memorandum entitled "Guide lines for the planning of
Cuban overflights", and requesting "An estimate of the adequacy of
such a system of intelligence collection to meet the criteria set forth
...'
On December 6, 1 wrote to you stating that I was of the opinion that
two regularly scheduled U-2 missions per day would reasonably satisfy
the requirements, with the understanding that postponed flights, because
of weather, would be flown when weather permitted, and with the further
understanding that low-level flights would be requested if considered
necessary because of special interest in targets or protracted post-
ponement of the high level missions.
With reference to the assumption expressed in NSAM #20'8 that an
energetic program for the collection of information by all other avail-
able means would be used to supplement photography, the United States
Intelligence Board has considered these carefully.
I can report to you that:
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(c) The United States Intelligence Board has also con-
sidered ways for more energetic utilization of resources
available in the military services, most particularly the Army
and the Navy, and will take such actions as might be appropriate
to increase their unilateral activities without duplicating the
activities of CIA.
I think the combination of the photography and other measures can
give us a reasonably satisfactory body of intelligence. However, it will
not, in my opinion, be totally satisfactory nor as dependable as an
arrangement for well organized on-site inspection, which is politically
not attainable at the present time
/S/
John A. McCone
Director
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