FLIGHT PLANNING FOR FUTURE AQUATONE MISSIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000500030122-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 122
• Publication Date: May 9, 1957
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2003/11 CSfIR Ef1500750A000500030122-7
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Ad Hoc Requirements Committee
SUBJECT t Flight Planning for Future AQUATONE Missions
1. This Office is herewith recording its complete concurrence with
your view expressed yesterday that it would be well for certain offices to
assist Operations in the development of detailed flight plans for future
AQUATONE flights. We appreciate the possibility that Operations may not
want to include all members of the ARC in these discussions but urge that
certain critical targets should be discussed as suggested.
2. As you are completely aware, it is imperative that the maximum
amount of intelligence be obtained from the limited number of penetration
flights which now seem to have been approved. Because of this, we feel
that nothing should be left undone which would help insure the obtaining of
maximum results.
3. Although we, like the other ARC members, have attempted to give
the best possible guidance in our participation in the development of target
lists, we feel there are certain subtktties relative to our targets which
cannot be recorded in the confines of a standardized target list. I have
in mind here such problems as the Novokazalinsk-Kzyl Ozda-Dzusaly area,
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!&. Briefly stated, then, I feel that, because we must buy the maximum
amount of intelligence for our investment effort, it is imperative that
future flights cover the targets intended and that this coverage should be
assisted by detailed guidance to Operations from the Offices most familiar
with the targets.
HERBERT SCOVILLE, JR.
Assistant Director
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