PROPOSED PERIPHERAL ELINT MISSIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000600110093-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2013
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: July 29, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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FOR: Major General M. A. Preston
Director of Operations
Deputy Chief of Staff. Operations
Department of the Air Force
Colonel Leo P. Geary
Special Assistant to the inspector General
for Projects
Department of the Air Force
Proposed Peripheral Eliot Missions
Herewith is a short paper
your office on 28 July I promised to pass this
eary. I have taken the liberty of handing a copy of
(AFCIN) so that the Air Force Requiremeats Officer
it.
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2. I am in full agreement with what I under* ad to be your view
gettisatien should undertake peripheral ens of this
only when (a) we have a superior or more readily available
and (b) a real requirement exists for the intelligence collection.
3. As to the first of these criteria. I am confident that for
reasons set forth in the attachment the so-called System IV glint collection
device in the U-2 aircraft does constihAte a superior collection capability,
at least for pioneer recontutiesance. It should be noted that within several
months, SAC will have this equipment chocked out in their U-2s and will
therefore possess the same capability. As of today, however, our arrange-50X1
meets with are complete and we could move a staging
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