RELEASE OF TDI DATA(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01709A003500060004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 27, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation
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REFERENCE:
a. COMIREX-M-16, page 9, paragraph 2
b. DIAXX-3 9353
c. COMOR-D-22/85
Attached for your information and to assist is discussing release
of TDI datal scheduled for COMIREX 30 November, is a
draft of the minutes of the special SDWG meeting of 9 November (see
reference a for background). As you will recall, this matter was raised
for discussion at COMIREX on 9 November as a result of a cable
(reference b) which reactivated a request forwarded in October 1966
(reference c).
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Executive Secretary
Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation
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Draft Minutes of the Special SDWG Meeting of 9 November 1967
25X1C Release of TDI Information
1. At the request of Chairman, COMIREX, the SDWG met
in special session on 9 November to consider the release: of
sanitized T-KH information on certain categories of targets in North
Vietnam and South China. The request was made by CINCPAC to DIA
and was disseminated by DIA to COMIREX members on 2 November
1967 (DIAXX-3 9353).
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2. CINCPAC requested the information to update the
Targetting Data, South China, and North Vietnam Potential Targets for
Retarding the Communist Advances
published in January 25X1 C
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is scheduled for review on 15 November 1967 at a
meeting of the Subcommittee of the Thirteenth Meeting of the Intelligence
Committee, which is a subcommittee I
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3. A request for release of this information
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made by CINCPAC in 1966 and was referred to COMOR on 27 October
1966 by the DIA member as COMOR-D-22/85 (dated 17 October 1966).
This request was delayed by COMOR for one week, subject to comments
by the Director of Security, CIA and was withdrawn a week later by DIA
at the COMOR meeting of 3 November 1966 on the grounds that DIA and
CINCPAC would study how augmented material could be made available
those with the greatest air attack
capability- -without making it generally available
4. The information now being requested by CINCPAC is for
25X1C release tol members. It is confined to 23 categories of
targets (such as airfields, troop installations, port facilities, bridges,
storage depots, etc.) in North Vietnam and South China within an area
south of 32? North and between longitudes 85? and 115? East. The
information for release would be derived from a machine run of the
DIA Automated Intelligence File (AIF) and would consist of a listing
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of names, coordinates and capacity data for each individual target
considered as "active" within the 23 specified categoires. Data
included in the AIF is from all available sources, including sanitized
T-KH, and is classified SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION.
CINCPAC emphasized that information has already been released up to
and including the SECRET classification on these categories and that
the inclusion of additional information identical to that previously
released should not attract attention as to source.
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5. Several points of concern, relative to the release of
25X1 C this additional information I I were raised during the SDWG
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a. The effects on of a sudden
increase in the volume of material for inclusion
Of particular concern was that the introduction of a considerable
number of new targets from the AIF run, especially those
in the remote areas of South China which have been identified
by T-KH alone, would reveal the totality of our reconnaissance
collection effort. It was also noted that, since the AIF is not
limited to major strike targets, the amount of information
requested could exceed in scope the TDI information
now being released to members.
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b. The security aspects of releasing T-KH-derived
information on the areas requestedl
This was of particular concern to the CIA and Air Force
members and the representative of the Director of Security,
CIA, who opposed release specifically on this point.
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C, The propriety of releasin T-KH-derived target
information to those members who have no air strike 25X1 C
capability. It was recognized that this might be a policy matter
for higher consideration, but a need-to-know has always been
the guiding principle for releasing T-KH-derived information.
6. There was no 0 osition within the SDWG for the release 25X1C
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was the question of "need-to-know. " The DIA member stated that the
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and all members agreed that bilateral release to individual countries
would not satisfy the requirement as expressed by CINCPAC for
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7. The question was raised of releasing information on
North Vietnam targets but it was the opinion of the group
that this was a policy matter beyond the purview of COMIREX and the
SDWG. It was also the opinion of the SDWG that USIB action would be
re uired before the material requested by CINCPAC could be released
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8. The SDWG recommends that the information as requested
by CINCPAC not be released
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NOTE: The State member was unable to attend, but Mr. McAfee
called the Acting Chairman during the meeting to record
the De artment's position: State would concur in release
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would oppose release I I need for
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