REQUEST FOR SECURITY RULING ON AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE MOVIE OVER CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R002700030167-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 167
• Publication Date: October 18, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOAR D
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Request for Security Ruling on Aerial
Reconnaissance Movie over Cuba
1. COMOR has considered an urgent request of the Navy for a
COMOR opinion to be considered by the United States Intelligence Board
at the earliest practicable date. The Navy requests approval to release,
at an unclassified level and for public consumption, a color movie taken
over Cuba which is now classified SECRET.
2. In its consideration, COMOR took note of the following:
a. The only known cases of releases to the public of aerial recon-
naissance photography taken over Cuba were in connection with the Cuban
Crisis of 1962.
b. The only Board ruling on classification of Cuba overflight
materials known to bear on this problem had to do specifically with the
product of high-altitude reconnaissance (see USIB-D-41. 5/33; COMOR-D-
24 /27,, 29 October 1962). This ruling permitted release of the materials
from special security channels at the SECRET level but with restrictions
on future downgrading.
c. Neither COMOR nor the Board participated in the ruling that
low-altitude photography should be classified. SECRET. This was probably
a logical deduction by the operator based on the Board ruling in regard to the
high-altitude reconnaissance.
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d. As far as COMOR knows the Board has not ruled on the
classification of overhead movie photography at low altitude nor
aerial photography acquired over Cuba in any other way.
a. That the classification applicable to high and low altitude
photography over Cuba should almost certainly apply to low-level movies
taken over Cuba.
b. That the practice of releasing overflight photography of a
denied area for public relations purposes could have extensive
ramifications. One could, for example, readily argue that because of
the public release last fall, thereafter, any BK material through 1962,
say, might also be useful in public relations.
4. Recommendation: That the Board rule that the subject material
remain classified SECRET and therefore not releasable for public
relations purposes.
(Signed)
James Q. Reber
Chairman
Committee on Overhead
Reconnaissance
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