SENATOR BYRD INQUIRY CONCERNING THE(Sanitized)LIGHT TABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05703A000200010025-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: July 29, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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DECLASS REVIEW by NGA
~fflee of
ati Counsel
xy Concerning tho
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?t Table !l+ trelo erit
it
1. -kttaC d is a sca ry of the facts concerning
11 ht table ttt r together with a st3' st draft
pose to .e tar ! y .
2. contractual relations with t el
bom conducted under a 1!CT. "I classification. a,:;c contracts :, t
germ r- itten without identifying CIA: a-, t".., najor
inquiry.
Oxwerniwez, the iimonosed rest a to motor fyrd. I tole; that yr.
thse ML's a ol.ler (code 11, is a? -
s . a for P TI. Co.* rossional. liaison and that he is farm t:liar wAt',
this particular hitter. Ye have not heard whether or not -.J,* sent
an interim re pnse to : euater d as a result of his 10,1A11/
tie to the taatienal security.
4. You y wish to call the DIA Con ssional liaison
l.lection a exploitation system.
O e C rnont's intelligence effort in apt, liana to
this is to Coal from, foref tovcrn. nts tb nature
t hey swro written in the a e t:& U.S. zc rn 'nt .
3. It ra;y also be helpful to ra ; the Point vor_~ally that it
is of critical ia;.a?oartat ce to CIA and other Intellt ,enco agencies
to have on 14,9M by early 1971 a sufficient quantity of e se . -mi Ii=ht
t Iles. They are needed to exploit intelligence of considera=hle
taut ve rector
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inquiry
to dui i 8, the ? tral Tntelligence Agencyr a arded a
jelivered on. 1IlbmLer 1964.
to the
Cate a matotype . t tau e.
:tract for awarded e a sole source s asis.
2. delivered the prototype in
February L% ti. i test and ems: int a n by CIA en . eers several tea.jor de
f`icl ies wom notes..
January 196
May 1969 for test and l tion. `n 0 to ?rie also had 25X1
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U-as dev e, x-t?
et"F-4* light Ie. T IgLt table atoms offer d mtd delivered
jor deficir ius but Included s+ nc features su rior to t? on
the to le.
4. As a result of the test and ovaluatlon of tam-
prototyj light to.zles ; Cl A I:-r trrJ new level c t a
tracts were awarded to the and to= to
design and fabricate seomul gentration prototype . t tables. The
contracts were awarded fr late October and early o er 1* tr de-
,very to "b in late 9ebruary 2f7O.
S. The second generati light tables fry the
. 9re delivered to CIA in rch 107? and mhiect to end rirr
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Est and operational evaluatirs. T ,-,e ;gas c ed in earl
April 1970 at th ,cu tip:: CI.JA, c aci d that tales Continued to
display deficiencies but that tle 0 tat le evi kenctd f or as d tec i 25X1
cafly less co lex deficiencies.
s s rately in April l97#3 to discuss in deta : the eagir r3 n
CTA ra rosentativrs t its M re- 25X1
rational evaluations of their respective t2thlc s. 'fie t'
tables were rat ed to t respective i for md1fl-catim and
re- in accorda a with written a roe :ts.
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7. ftor a m -view of all aspects of the tests, evaluations,
procure the 0taila to met CIA's needs. T b-sf , for this
decision :gas t :-rr*ater suita Ality of the 0 table "tot I ' s
tasks , I . lowur costs , a I a jt rxt t :at 0 could
tics. rete.~rxt.
't. T t. 0 x nd t=.+ ' rere reru
1970 to Lid an quantity ImOwtion off se ral zt odel vary>t
light tables. The rest to .s bad or. the
agencies in t1e cet unity and. t i.nyertqj puueses in t
Did not fulfill all o f C I . t s n ets . he 'Afl receiv d
CI.
s si' ifi.c+ ntl' der than the
F I
,,*. In June l 7 a contract s. fui ?
fa rrc'd to us- since i s Central Trtellig~
T,
U. 1, `" f:m rr nt organization ' i.ch ana . tV Is pro a -cznt
action to --et its awn and other agencies' Wis.
r;e m cat-Ax d ax. exk