SANITIZATION OF TALENT PHOTOGRAPHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200120087-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: September 12, 1958
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2004/06/29 : CIA-RDP61 SO075OA000200120087-0
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OR: Admiral Arleigh Burke
Chief of Naval Operations
SUBJECT a gsnitdsation of TALENT Photography
iCE s Ser NT. 00187, 12 June 1958
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12 June 1958 you wrote to the Director of Central intelligence
requesting permission for the saa ttisation of TALENT photography collected
over the European Satellites# the Leningrad and Kota Peninsula areas and
the meet Tar Most Maritime Provinces, and its rein oval from the TALENT
security system in order to meet Navy needs arising from its responsibility
prepare pilots to deliver weapons against assigned targets in the event of
This problem has been examined at length by the Ad Hoc Requirements
tee (ARC) and the Utilisation Advisory board WAS).
Z. The sensitive character of the operations whereby TALENT
photography has been collected is, as you are well aware, extraordinary.
The need for the information thus collected, in order for intelli
property to support national security, is also extraordinary* Over the
last two and a half years as these materials have become avaailable, the
agencies in the Intelligence Advisory Committee $1A) having a Principal
interest have collaborated closely in order to ensure maximum exploitation
and use of these materials consistent with security. + ustdereble progress
has been reds in devising ways and means of using the information safety
outside of the security control system and under normal security handling,
I strongly support these efforts and have urged continued imaginative efforts
to find new ways to obtain the greatest possible use of the information.
a have been found to sanitise photography in order to prevent exposure
bearing upon altitude# scams, camera configuration characteristic*.
and track to officials outside the TALENT system. However. we thus far
have been able to find no effective means of sanitizing photographs to prevent
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