TECHNICAL INTEL COLLECTION AND THE NRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00803R000100150068-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: January 10, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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RMB Memo to DCI
Subject: Technical Intel Collection and the NRO
First, proposal that certain activities of theAgency should be
grouped together under a Deputy for Scientific and Technical
Intelligence Collection.
1) Believe virtually infeasible, and bad organization to transfer
responsibility for most Elint and Comint collection activities out
of the CS which must conduct liaison with foreign host governments.
Believe these should remain under control of overseas stations and
area divisionsin Hqs.
2) Opposed to removing TSD from CS because there must be
closely unified control between development and operational use
by the CS.
3) Unwise to place A.D/SI under any superior officer other
than DD/I.
After these exclusions: new Deputy Director shield be responsible for
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Not clear to him what would be accomplished by having a Deputy Director
Recommends the senior officer responsible for these advanced recon
projects be attached to DCI as an Assistant to the Director for
Special Projects and felt he would need only a small staff. (similar
to position held by RMB at the outset of Project AQUA TONE when he
was Special Assistant to the Director 0 1944-48).
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Just as in the establishment of the Scientific
Branch and the Office of Scientific Intelligence, and in
the initiation of the U-2 and satellite reconnaissance
programs by CIA, where external pressure from high-level
boards and committees furnished the driving power to bring;
these activities into being, the establishment of the
Directorate for Research (and its successor, the Directorate
for Science and Technology) resulted principally from the
prodding of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board, particularly during 1.961.
continued to
The Board and its individual. members have/playmid a vital
role in the development and improvement of CIA's technical
capabilities in the collection and analysis of scientific
intelligence.
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