TAGBOARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00283R000100080003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 11, 1967
• Content Type: MF

AppFoved Forelease 2006/08/30: CIA-RDP74B00283R000100080003-3
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1 1 AUG 1967
T-O-P S-E-C-R-E-T/OXCART
The Board on August 9 discussed the question you put about
the TAGBOARD project, concentrating almost entirely on the
political advantages of using an unmanned rather than a manned
vehicle. It was agreed that if one of these vehicles came down
in unfriendly territory the adverse political and propaganda
reaction would be greater if a pilot were recovered. A good
deal would depend on the circumstances surrounding the event,
on the international sit-akation at the time, on the country in,
which it happened, and on how much that country might wish to
make of the possession o:' a captured pilot. Nevertheless, the
Board thought that, by and large, the difference would in most
cases probably not be very substantial.
National Estimates
GROUP 1
T-O-P S-E-C-R-E-T/OXCART Excluded from auto-
matic downgrading
and declassification
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