NRP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES OF MEETING HELD SEPTEMBER 12, 1967 OFFICE OF DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROOM 3E 928, THE PENTAGON 2:30 P.M. - 3:45 P.M.

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• Publication Date: September 12, 1967
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NRO review(s) completed.
Members Present
Mr. Pa.ul H. Nitze
Vice Adm. Rufus Taylor
Dr. Donald F. Hornig
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Minutes of Meeting Held September 12, 1967
Office of Deputy Secretary of Defense
Room 3E 928, The Pentagon
2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
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Deputy Secretary of Defense
Acting for the Director of
Central Intelligence
Special Assistant to the President
for Science and Technology
Others Present
Dr. Alexander H. Flax
Mr. James Q. Reber
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Dr. John S. Foster, Jr.
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Dr. Donald Steininger
Mr. Fred S. Hoffman
Mr. C. William Fischer
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OXCART Phase Out
Admiral Taylor stated that the DCI had requested him
to inform the Executive Committee on the OXCART phase out
and the withdrawal of the BLACK SHIELD operation. He
advised that, under plans recently developed by CIA and
SAC, the first of the three aircraft now at Ka,dena, would
return to the States about November 8 with the rest
returning by mid-November and that there would ensue a. 10-
to 14-da.y hiatus in coverage from Kadena, before SAC took
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over on December 1. He pointed out that experienced con-
tractor personnel would be rea.ssigned to other activities
beyond December 1 and that spare parts would not be ava.il-
a.ble after November 15 except from off-the-shelf items, by
cannibalizing OXCART aircraft scheduled for storage at
Palmdale, or from 90-day packages assigned to accompany the
stored planes. He emphasized that October 1 was the dead-
line for changing actions now in train for phase out of
BLACK SHIELD. Dr. Hornig emphasized the importance of making
sure that the SR-.71 was operationally ready before the point
of no return ha.d been reached in the phase out of the OXCART.
In response to his desire for a, comparison of the OXCART and
SR-71, Dr. Flax said he would provide a. paper, modified if
required, which was used a, year ago when the decision was
made to phase out the OXCART.
To aid the ExCom in reviewing the SR-71 readiness by
October 1, it was agreed that a, week prior to October 1 the
DNRO would provide to the Executive Committee a. summary of
the status of Category 3 testing for the SR-71 and the like-
lihood of its being operationally ready on December 1. It
was recognized tha.t when the SR-71 took over from the OXCART
responsibility for the operation passed from the DNRO to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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The Executive Committee approved the proposal as out-
lined in the foregoing paragraph.
Mr. Hoffman of the Bureau of the Budget suggested that
concurrent with the actions which the ExCom was initiating
a, study be undertaken which would make an appraisal of what
would be the value to the user of the acquisition of infor-
mation early rather than later; what would this system add
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in the short term that would be of value; and what would
be. the effect of that information on policy decisions such
as force structures. Secretary Nitze referred to his review
of earlier studies that ha.d been made with regard to both
the need for the da.ta, and the means of its collection and
wondered whether the study Mr. Hoffman had in mind would
significantly add to that. Admiral Taylor suggested that
a. USIB committee had earlier accomplished this task and he
proposed to request that that study be updated. This wa.s
agreed. Mr. Hoffman agreed to circulate to the members the
draft terms of reference which his office ha,d prepared for
such a study and which the DCI might include in the charge
to the USIB subcommittee.
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7 DDR&E for Mr. Larsen
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