NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72R00410R000200110027-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: June 7, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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,.,~.,.~,~ :,;: tiS~r i _.-- -ca-??,,???,????? on the NRv has now been completed and is in ;:!;a
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process of
implementation. s :
This
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-+fies - the retationship3 and re-
;'. _- i" ;'sponsibilities between the Department of Defe se .nd CYA b_t,_ -
dose coordination and intense effort in advanced'
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.? --o?+ 5---- r-onnn?inbo the national reconnaissance program and
also the e,trrenr---- -
??e wil]. Watch closely the manage-
;meat of the'NRO and ensure that this program is nowfl i
successun'every ;''
respect. ;s . .
The new agreement on the NR0 '`
provides for close relc.-ti0nship8
the NRO? And the
., on the subject, they :.
encompass a number' of obvious management problems The arr
.angements
for handling these prep] ems are J_ .._-
?..Y, .,.,;... ?. _ -- - wing WW6 of this agreement 'in an effective manner
depends on close collaboration betwe
en the DCId th Sc
aneeretary of
Defense'. It should be
vital, and complicated area
of overhead reconnaissance. Management of this problem calls also for
if;.close collaboration between responsible authorities in bth dt:
oepartmens.
The new agreement which is being implemented was.reached after due.-:.`.
-consideration of the ?~.~~ i..?,.:.._
---- it either Deten$e or u La. taking full
responsibility for the -reconnaissance-program It was -.. -
be iseeca
- -use on the one nand it would involve relocating vast
;.resources from the' Department of De!e..-_
-~~?? On the ozaer nand it would . ;:
,'involve a loss of Yecnnns fhf I r .
- has de many valuable contributions in the 'field of
:.overhead reconnaissance. .Moreover transferfro CIA wId
,m u run the-
q' risk of losing a.vantage f
qualified to protect or Secrecy which. the Agency , so well
The NRO, agreement has been drafted t.v4*u the
- - +?? the judgment . or . the Board that-it is a 'wall
conceived-and soundly: detailed lan' ?
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p for the mariagemeat of this impor
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