RESPONSIBILITY FOR OVERFLIGHTS OF DENIED AREAS

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CIA-RDP66R00546R000100090356-2
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RIPPUB
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T
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2
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December 12, 2016
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January 4, 2002
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356
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Publication Date: 
June 3, 1963
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MF
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25X1D 25X1D 25X1D 25X1D Approved For Release 2002/06/25 : CIA-RDP66R00546R000100090356-2 NRO REVIEW COMPLETED time Cornrr RA/4DM. }OL *tory ;;t4or4s* Middy for r sat the iat.pt1s f Oat sal 145 it was dec d lie resposeible for m conducted 174 everZ1i4lits ewer Z urepean tlitetiriNglat that M Southeast Asia including the Sino-Lotaan order and hides. rai-k * overflight authority Store that vieg -le testy rograrn has been conducted 11th the lolls ght * Soviet Ruse. The eaten the t pr cc f froL4 the ',Arc% everiUgh here, rie eve supple/violated in 1961 by otil recently also oo4itr cedere as heels active r Cubs beginain operations SOW have been =icier 3. 'The direct by a email group of hietly dweleris: &AC CIA civilians *sing an operations center This group )ggis direct igne ttre rspiu sod OrranintitilatiC011.8 to the units in Et* field. whether they are based at Edwards, the 0104f ? be of the CIA Et igt - clad out cams sedges, TOP SECRET t. or st Egiaiti iiiila 1;.::..ji:11.? 0 downgrading Iat dulusiticaio t 14043n r ii................. Copy ''c 2 Approved For Release 2002/06/25 : CIA-RDP66R00546R000100090356-2 25X1D 25X1D 25X1A Approved For Release 2002/06/25 : CIA-RDP66R00546R000100090356-2 014 - Page 4 a veto* variety of deploymest bases .*vs ;.eat. In accordance with agreements worked out with the ,V7,43 as tho Air Torre, it luis been possible to obtain very rae :1--i.ilitstry support tor these operations asing strausinithe4 Jrt,ctutar es A. a coneoquortee, it has been posoible to sorry :Jut operatioas is reopens* to rogialserotats d ?lop. y USIt3 sad approved by the Spocial Croup sad highest authority raptAily and in a highly secure which also provle es e, ,..tegres a plausible dental to the theittte Stages (err est. The importance of the Intelligance which has been acvsixtoCi by those operations over the past *WPM years cannot ho ai.re?pbsstseL 4. In dovoloping the present, Nf A ,; A4; r40.3,n.4.at, it voas clearly tussiorittood and oo statoti in paregrksil 111 J that the NiO would onko o'111,21/71Utri us the &Op ropriate technical ono operational capabilities f+torxercers of tile DUD as CIA. The piecemeal of the ?7it.01 in coutrsi4 orations for the lv,R0 doss sot appear colithiettat with tho o?r; use of CIA resoarcos. A more appropriate trote4,z *okild appear to involve asaigning the reopoasilsiitty to the PIC as it riresently exists for control of overflights silts:Alois for military control as are presently agroo. betereto the LC1 alio the Secretary of Detests.. Similarly, the presoot aiik,r4,, sot of responsibility tor control of all covert overflAghto shoulli be contialsed with the CIA using its ;moment ?Iethaio at 4pOSTLtiOn? Those two programs could then he to CAU it0 ro soy, ci,-.:-.rOulated by a very siusit group in the NP."-, Staff. Signature ReCommetitked: 11,2,V Herbert - Herbert Scoville, Jr. DD/R 25X1A ODDR:HScoville (3 ,tune 1963) Distribution: 1 and - Addressee 3 - DC1 4 - ER ;ftj Orta Copy / 3 AD/ TA pxo.yegUor. Release 2002/06/25 : CIA-RDP66R00546R000100090356-2 P. tcColkiE 11,irector 25X1A