GENERAL R&D (AIRCRAFT) ACTIVITIES FOR FY-68

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00822R000200130025-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 23, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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25X1 I INATI6NAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
April 23, 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR, CIA RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAM
SUBJECT: General R&D (Aircraft) Activities for FY-68
25X1 . REF:
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This is in response to your memorandum of September S,
1967 in which you listed five R&D Activities which you felt
should be initiated this fiscal year.
The first two R&D Activities, Induced Drag Reduction
and High Altitude Engine Relight, if successfully carried
out, could be of benefit to our reconnaissance program; the
first of which has already been implemented. Accordingly,
the second, High Altitude Engine Relight, is approved aad
the FY-68 General R&D (Aircraft) funding approval is hereby
increased by
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ILLEGIB
In accordance with the ExCom decision, relative to the
FY-1969 budget program, funding for studies of advanced air-
craft and other highly invulnerable quick-reaction reconnais-
sance systems is provided in that?'fiscal year. Specific tecI-.-
nology efforts for such advanced systems were not approved
pending completion of the studies. Therefore, elements of
Items 3 and 4 of your memorandum'should be included in'the
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systems in FY-1969. Submittal
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