(Sanitized) (NRO) -TUESDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 1969

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01709A000400030042-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: November 28, 1969
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMO OF CONVERSATION
SUBJECT:
Z8 November 1969
(NRO)--Tuesday, 25 November 1969
25X1
1. George called to ask status of USIB action
paper. Conversation following focused largely on NRO's problems
with mapping and. charting requirements, made 25X1
lengthy visit to George on Monday, Z4 November, In attempt to
jack-up steadily diminishing M&C take from current rz isetons.
Various miscellaneous points raised by George follow.
2. Low efficiency factor experienced against "Bad
Weather Belt": NRO running an average of only 3 percent return
on film expended against this area. On 1052, however, with 2
percent of total mission film allocated to M&C, an effective return
of 15 percent was achieved, all against area outside of BWB.
George suggests MC&G face-up to the fact that we are simply not
able to get any reasonable coverage of the belt, cancel the imagery
requirement, and plan to go for this area entirely with other sensors
There's no point in the mappers sitting around hoping for photo
coverage that isn't coming and formally acknowledging this will
permit increased M&C returns on other non-Bloc areas.
3. Also on the point of low M&C coverage by recent
missions, NRO pointed out to he low priority 25X1
assigned these targets in miss ton requirements -e. g. for 1108
targets outside the Bloc are carried as Priority 5, the next-to-
lowest on the list, exceeding only the Priority 61 item. 25X1
4. George then queried our awareness of what ERTS
was up to and the stage to which it had now developed. He was
referring to NASA's purchase of two CORONA's for missions planned
NRO review(s) completed.
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at something like 180 miles, low resolution, etc. NOW it
strikes George that, if somebody is going to come up with.
two rrxore C's, the best way _to ..do things would be as follows.
a. Give the two to NRG to manage - this
would give therm eight to fly instead of the present six.
b. NRO would then accept ERTS require-
ments and pro-rate them among the eight and everybody
would benefit * intell, MC&G, and ERTS.
C, The ERTS film-share could be sent to
to process for appropriate resolution sanitization
degradation, etc., etc.
25X1
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