RESPONSIBILITY FOR OVERFLIGHTS OF DENIED AREAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66R00546R000100090356-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 356
• Publication Date: June 3, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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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
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Herbert Scoville, Jr.
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