RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD (PFIAB)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP33-02415A000800300010-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 7, 1963
• Content Type: REQ

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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD (PFIAB)
Att. to
0034/63 25X1
une 1963
Toward an Effective National Reconnaissance Office. The Director
of Central Intelligence has made available to the Board a draft of a
proposed "Agreement Between the Secretary of Defense and the Director
of Central Intelligence on the Management of the National Reconnaissance
Program. " In the judgment of the Board, this draft agreement is the
best conceived and most soundly detailed plan for the management, the
mission and the operation of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
that has come to our attention. We urgently recommend its immediate
adoption.
In the course of implementing the agreement and in carrying out
its plan we recommend, in addition, that:
(a) a clear channel of guidance and authorization flow
from the policy decisions of the President to the Secretary of
Defense and, as provided in the agreement, to the Director of Central
Intelligence;
(b) a clear and effective connection be established between
the advance technology and planning of the national reconnaissance
program, and the development plans for reconnaissance capabilities
of the Department of Defense and the military services;
(c) plans be made to improve the continuity of management
of the NRO, particularly with respect to career specialists who may be
heavily taxed in meeting schedules for new satellites, aircraft and
other reconnaissance instrumentalities;
(d) pains be taken to ensure consistency between Department
of Defense directives which guide the national reconnaissance program
and pertinent directives emanating from higher authority, such as
National Security Council Intelligence Directives; and
(e) within the Department of Defense present and planned
relationships be clarified as between the NRO, the Defense Intelli-
gence Agency and the National Security Agency.
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