MEETING WITH DR. MCMILLAN, 25 JUNE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001400040035-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: June 25, 1964
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE -RECORD
SUBJECT; Meeting with Dr. McMillan, 25 June
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2. The talk then went on into many areas. Dr. McMillan said he
was most unhappy with Dr. Wheelon and could not work with him. I
told Dr. McMillan that I thought he was a captive of the Air Force staff
and that I had seen. nothing in the past two years but a clear intent of the
Air Force to put CIA entirely out of the reconnaissance business. Dr.
McMillan did not deny this although he did state that he did not think he
was a captive of an Air Force staff. He stated that he had already
selected the new Chief of Staff for NRO, a Brigadier General whom he
did not choose to name at this time but a good man he had stolen from
the Systems Command. I said since he had already selected this man
NRO review(s) completed
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without any consultation with DCI that I hoped he would be as objective
as "owl Lee Geary, who knew inteliigsswtee require ents and got along
fine with our people, and would have been my nominee had we been asked.
As to the furnishing to COMOR of the and CORONA ephemeris. 25
Dr. .104illan stated that he was fully aware o General Martin's position
and had approved it. He stated that CCMOR was intellectually lazy and
that all they were trying to do was have a machine do their work for them.
He said what COMOR should do is furnish them a priority listing of targets
and tot the NRO do the flight program and other technical matters. I said
I had a paper under preparation and did not want to talk about the matter
substantively until I had gone into it in greater depth. I told him however
that MO did not seem to be able to get along with anybody Including
COMOR, CIA, and the Air Force Systems Command amongst others.
Dr. McMillan stated that he could not understand our position on the
President's Board report. He thought we were jousting at a windmill
and that as far as he was concerned the report was fine and supported
the 13 Marsh 196 3 agreement. I stated that the 13 March 1963 agreement
was entirely workable but I had found no disposition on the part of anyone
in the NR O staff to make it work in the manner intended.
3. Dr. McMillan brought up again his desire to turn the systems
management of CORONA over to I reviewed the history of 25
CORONA for him, laying particular stress on the long series of failures
we had had during the spring and indicating that now that we seemed to be
riding on the top of the wave with a ni naber of successful shots, it certainly
did not seem to me that this was the time to change management forces
and to Inject into an apparently successful operationle a whole new team of
people to muddy the water. I stated that it was essential that we get
maximum reconnaissance during the next two months and that I would be
most hesitant to inject any action which would disturb our present relation-
ships. He then mentioned a contract S-1928 which was with Lockheed and
which would expire on I July. He stated that this had been an Air Force
contract until last year and that for convenience, as the CIA 25
contract officer, had taken it over. He stated that he wanted this contract
to go back into Air Force channels since that was whore it had previously
been. He stated that this was a small matter of about I I and was 25
an administrative convenience. I told hirrs that I was not familiar with it but
that I would look into it. He asked me to approach the Director again about
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turning the systems management over to i stated that I
would do so but made no comniitxno* as to what the results might be.
I told Dr. McMillan that the Director had said he wanted no changes
in contracts, no changes in management conceptions, and no changes
in the NRO current operating procedures until the matter of the
President's Board report had been determined or except with his own
personal approval in each case.
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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