AD HOC REQUIREMENTS COMMITTEE ON PROJECT AQUATONE (ARC) MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DCI CONFERENCE ROOM ADMINSTRATION BUOLDING, CENT

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AD HOC REQUIREMENTS COMMI TTEE ON PROJECT AQUATONE (ARC)
Minutes of Meeting Held in DCI Conference Room,
Administration Building, Central Intelligence Agency
at 1400, 27 March 1956
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PRESENT
Mr. Arthur C. Londahi, CIA/C1,
E"loi tation of ELIN T and VHF Package st
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1. briefed the Committee on the nature and capabilities
of the equipment involved in the above subject. He pointed out that: (a)
system one will be available at the start of operations and system three
by 1 June; (b) that agreed ELINT requirements prepared by Services CIA-.
ELINT Committee (SCEC)* had already been made available to the intelli.
gsnce officer of the project; (c) that it should be kept in mind that with regard
to the systems one and three, there was relatively little flexibility; sad (d)
that this latter fact combined with the fact that initially this material would
be a by-product rather than the primary product of missions waald seem to
indicate that the requirements thus far prepared would be ad+equatr. He
indicated that a more careful consideration of requirement. would be necessary
when the large FLINT package (system 4) was completed and in use, for at
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such time missions using the package would be primarily focused on ELINT
observation. He noted that duplicate tapes would be made in the field
prornp+ly, one copy to be retained. for immediate exploitation for operations
data which would be transmitted to headquarters promptly for use in operational
decisional, and that one tape could be made available to the theater if a decision
to do that were made. He pointed out that it is intended that the exploitation
of headquarters will be handled by the Technical Processing Center (TPC)*
when it is established, pointing out that a temporary facility will be es-
tablished at Barton Hall if the TPC is not ready. The armed services could
either obtain a duplicate tape or associate thernselveswith the temporary
facility at Barton Hall, said that plans were well advanced for
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2. Action: The following agreements and understandings were
reached;
a. In order not to disturb what seems a practical and working
arrangement of the SCEC and yet to permit the Ad Hoc Committee
to discharge its responsibility. will distribute 25X1A9a
to the members of the SCEC requirements for review. Issues
which may emerge may be placed on the agenda of the ARC;
b. The military representatives agreed to inform the
Chair regarding their preference for duplicate tapes from
system one or participation in the Barton Hall establishment,
in the event TPC has not been established by the time opera..
tions are underway;
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c. The Chair will consult with
to dr ternyine the necessary arrant en-?ents
which will be required with NSA in Va handlirx `_)f the VilE
tapes (system three);
d, At a later date consideration will be given to making
available a duplicate tape; to theater headquarters.
V, Tn. pursuance of NSCID-17
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Planningand Utilisation: Military Services:
(Chairman's mernorandum of 19 March 1956)
3. Action: Referenced paper was agreed as a basis for planning
subject to the re~rirrion of paragraph !~~ three changing the last word "seven"
to "eight" on the basis of inforuK t4c3 eported by Lundahl and striking
the last sentence on request of who felt that this sentence
was premature pending the development of the security regulations to
implement the security principles which had been agreed on at the pre-
vious meeting. Mr. Lundahl described the lay.out of Automat space to
accommodate the military liaison and PI officers.
4. Colonel Stewart stated that the Air Force would not be sending
any PI officers though he would want the Air Force P1 officers to be able
to consult freely with the CIA PI officers. Mr. Lwadakl indicated this was
hly desirable and could be arranged. The Chairman requested the Array
and Navy to inform him of the number of PI officers they each wished to
station in Aaatomat.
Cover 3tor~r~.
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S. For information the Chair distributed, and later collected, a paper
explaining the cover story used in the project. This was read and discussed-.-
by those present. said he appreciated and would consider sugges-
tions made by the members. It was the opinion of those present that an
abridged version would be helpful to thorn.
6. Action: 3he Chair asked to prepare such a paper for
distribution to the Committee.
Priorities for Re uirements:
(Chairman's memorandum of 22 March 1956)
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7. Action: It was agreed that would, for convenience
of the agencies, sort out from the targets already submitted *ose which ties
within the arc west of Rostov-Gorky. Upon receipt of its list, each originating
agency would mark its targets as follows:
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i, a, c, and d with regard to those which are
essential to highest priority objectives as listed in
DCID 4/5 entitled Priority National latelligence Ob-
je ctive s;
ii. a. through f. for those which are essential to
the second category of high priority objectives in the
same document; and
Al. Those which do not fall in the above categories.
Thereupon, the Ad Hoc Requirements Committee will
discuss and seek to resolve any m;jor disagreements
arising from varying judgements regarding each priority
assignments.
it was agreed further that the BE numbers (not priorities) would also be recorded
and that it would not be desirable to throw out the ABC priority ratings which
were used at the time of submission of the requirement lists,
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8. The Chairman called attention to the fact that Operations needed
advice with regard to military requirements for central processing of Radar
photographic film (five inch format).
9. Action Assuming that arrangements for utilisation of the material
could be made in this came (as in the case of aerial photography), the Army
and Navy stated that their needs could be met through the same arrangements
as pertained to aerial photography. The Air Force stated they needed a
duplicate negative and duplicate positive as in the case of aerial photography
and they would report later on the length and packaging requirements for these,
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