ORGANIZATION AND DELINEATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES PROJECT OILSTONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62B00844R000200190009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 29, 1955
• Content Type: REGULATION

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29 July 1955
ORGANIZATION AND DELINEATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
PROJECT OILSTONE
Director of CIA - Chief of Staff, USAF: The primary
responsibility at this level shalt be the formation of broad policy,
determine the implications of the project's operation on national and
international policy, and to make recommendation* to higher authority
accordingly. Further, it shalt be their joint responsibility to resolve
differences that may arise at lower staff and operating levels.
2. CIA Project Director - Air Force Project Director: The
primary reepousibility* at this level shalt be the development and
execution of all activities concerning the project within their own
organiaaa.t1 onss the free exchange of information; the detailed planning
within their own organizations; the resolution of differences that may
arise at tower echelons; and to report progress and make recta menda-
r respective chiefs.
3. Elements of Organization: Subject to policy guidance to be
developed and furnished as indicated above, the functions of the several
elements engaged in the conduct of operations will be as follows:
nt Project Headquarters will be responsible for
any continued research and dev o topmont, operational planning, and the
direction and control of final phase operations.. (Final phase operations
are those involving actual overflights.)
b. The Air Force, employing selected officers in the Air
Staff, shalt be responsible for implementing plans approved by the CIA
Project Director and by the Air Force Project Director in the name of
the Chief of Staff, USAF. Generally. this function wilt be to arrange
Force support of project activities which can appropriately be
furnished through staff channels or by commands other than the Strategic
Air Command. Appropriate Directors of the Air Staff will designate
points of contact within their offices, Officers so designated wilt assist
the Task Force as required.
C. All military personnel assigned for full-time duty to the
project for duty under CIA direction on permanent status shalt be carried
on the rolls of a newly activated support squadron in accordance with
current procedures. The Air Force Deputy to the CIA Project Director
Will command this administrative squadron.
USAF review(s) completed.
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d. Commandaer, SAC. will be assigned primary responsib
for providing and coordinating Air Force support of the Project. No
form a now subordinate headquarters which will be manned by him from
resources available to him. Requirements for certain types of personnel
and equipment not under his control will be stated to Headquarters,. USAF
(thee Air Force Project Officer) and will be met from other resources as
stated in paragraph 3b above.
phase of the Project, now well s
been research and dovele merit, .recur
or anization of the ointProject Headquarters, the construction and act
of test and training base, the initial testing of ec , am.nt. and operational
b. The second Phase. which is expected to b
will be devoted training, the shako-do
or rseas. P h^** U activities terminate
equipment are operationally ready.
mid-autumn 1956,
deployment
crews and
s 1 The Project Director shall hay, control of Phase I activities
raring and recruiting Of pers.- in der his contro The Air
upport which will be a matter for
coordination with all Air Force
6. Phase A special facility to be as
the finatl training of personnel has already U*
that Phase U activities will be carried on maim a
e testing of eq sipmen
od. It is a nticipatod
base.
a. Comnuad. SAC, will ass (or approve the assignment o
officers to direct aril s orvise the tr^iniall of operational wits (referred to
in para rra h 7a bee ow and to satis themselves as to the state of readiness
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c. thwing P;
the scale
deploymen
headquarters to be org
mat line of command on matters concerning
Air Force support, and the mechanics of
Commander, SAC and the /seb-u!7 subordinate
capability contemplated in
be in progress simultaneously
,Each unit Will include Air Force
her to be agreed upon. Operational units will pass to full
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onroecteaquuarters in Phase M.
b. Corder. SAC. will establish overseas units controlled by
supporting functions as required by the Project Headquarters and agreed b
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ommander. 2% AC. or Chief of Staff, u "r, Each such operational
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en upons corresponding. Air Force support omit.
c. In Phase M. the final decision as to execution and
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actual overflight missions shall root with the Project Director subject to
such guidance as he may receive from higher authority. The line of command
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hall be direct btil
eween Operatona waits and the Project Director.
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