THE AIR FORCE S INFORMAL REQUEST THAT NPIC PROVIDE SOME FUNDS TO HELP PAY FOR FLIGHTS AROUND CUBA BY THE 665-A AIRCRAFT CARRYING A SIDE LOOKING RADAR SET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05171A000600060028-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: September 14, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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NPIC/TDS/D--1411-67
14 September 1967
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MEJ ORANDUM FOR: Chief, Development Staff, TDS
THROUGH ; Chief, Imagery Systems Branch, DS
SUBJECT
The Air Force's Informal ,Request That NPIC Provide Some Funds
to Help Pa)r fo t~ i hts ? Arod Cuba by the 66S-A Aircraft
25X1 1. on 31 May 1967,1 sent a memorandum (NPIC/(,)S-85/67) to
the Chief, Special Activities Office, DIA requesting that a series of stand-
off missions be flown around Cuba with the aircraft being used to test fly
25X1 the We, of TDS, feel strongly that such an= data
acquisition flight program over an area where we already have an excellent
photo data base is a tailor-made situation to help us determine the intelli-
25X1 Bence value of that type of .magery. The imagery could also be used
for training purposes within NPIC. A copy of memorandum is
attached to this document.
2. on 23 June 1967, DIA's Special Activities office forwarded the re-
quest to the Director of Operations, 1, USAF, the Pentagon, AT7'N: AVX of
FR. A copy of that document also is attached,
3. Several cables concerning this matter were sent out in July (APXOPR
Secret message 77117 dated 11 July 1967, and SCTTI Confidential message 27
220 dated 17 July 1967). The Air Force Avionics Lab at Wright Field has
responsibility for the 665-A program. They have a modified KC--135 which
has had a large, bulky, bread-board model of the APQ:
1QIa mounted in it for more than a year. On 27 July 1967,1
who is Acting Chief of the 665-A program, wrote a staff srepo to
APSC at Andrews summarizing the current state of the 665-A effort. A copy
of this report is also attached to this memorandum. In Paragraph 7, on page
25X1 3 of this report, a figure of is itemized as the amount of money
which will be needed to pay the expenses of the task force when the aircraft
is flown from Dayton to southern Florida and the requested missions around
Cuba are flown. Apparently, neither APAL nor AFSC can come up with. this
money and they want to know whether NPIC can supply it; If not, then the
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