SECRETARY GILPATRIC'S PROPOSAL FOR NRP REVIEW COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01580R002004080004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 6, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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6 DEC 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Secretary Gilpatric's Proposal for NRP
Review Committee
1. I do not know the background of Mr. Gilpatric's
proposal except that I gather that McMillan had a hand
in drafting it. Perhaps it represents your understanding
of how we were going to implement the active review
concepts put forward at the budget meeting. However,
it certainly is not my concept of what we decided on and
goes a fair way toward undoing the controls we decided to
establish over NRO.
2. Your first letter specifically mentioned regular
meetings between Mr. Gilpatric and yourself to provide
policy guidance to McMillan and review the over-all NRP
as the stock owning directors.
3. In addition, it was agreed that Fubini and I
would work with the NRO more frequently and presumably
on a more technical plane. It is my understanding that
I am to "wear your cloth", as Fubini does McNamara's in
a series of regular and irregular inquiries into NRO
affairs. The responsibility is yours alone, but experience
has shown clearly that without this delegation one cannot
penetrate the entire program to provide you with adequate
staff support.
4. Two things are wrong with the Gilpatric/McMillan
proposal:
a. It subordinates Fubini and myself to
McMillan when in fact we are trying to provide
constructive inquiry and criticism of his program.
b. The charter for the NRP Review Committee
is circumscribed, and does not include such key
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SUBJECT: Secretary Gilpatric's Proposal for NRP
Review Committee
items as management change procedures (such
as CORONA, technical health of going programs
(i.e., CORONA J), etc., which are certainly part
of my responsibility in supporting you - and in
fact occupied most of our first meeting yesterday.
5. I believe that these deficiencies have not
escaped McMillan. Being the kind of autocratic manager
he is, it is understandable that he is not anxious to
have a pair of overseers. However, his record to date
shows that this is just what he needs and you will only
negate that by signing this directive in hand. I
suggest that you call Gilpatric back indicating that
the meetings already seem to be well started and that no
structuring or chartering is needed or desirable.
cc: DDCI
ALBERT D. WHEELON
Deputy Director
(Science & Technology)
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