JOINT MEETING OF COMIREX MAPPING, CHARTING AND GEODESY WORKING GROUP AND IMAGERY COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS SUBCOMMITTEE 5 DEC 1969

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January 5, 1970
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7, t'4 Approved For Re %a a 2001/11/07: 61A-RDP79.B01709AOW0001001-34 C. ONTP0L S`f_, Referral review completed by NIMA 3/1/01 5 X l.,") i97U .COMIREX MAPPING, CHARTING AND GEODESY WORKING GROUP IMAGERY COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS SUB COMMITTEE Minutes of Joint Meeting Held in Room 2D921 Pentagon 1400 Hours, 5 December 1969 PRESIDING Attendance included most of the regular members and consultants of the ICRS and MCGWG 1. Purpose of Meeting. To discuss what steps could be taken to place increased emphasis on Mission 1108 collection of KH-4 photography for MC&G purposes. 2. KH-4 Coverage for Mission 1108 for MC&G Purposes. a. In the way of background, the DIA Member of the MCGWG had presented the DoD problem of gaps in KH-4 coverage outside the Sino Soviet to members of COMIREX, ICRS, and MCGWG during latter part of November and early part of December. On 4 December 1969 Chairman of the MCGWG forwarded a memo to Chairman COMIREX recommending for Mission 1108 that ICRS be instructed to place increased emphasis on collection for MC&G purposes outside the Sino Soviet area and that ICRS and representatives of the MCGWG work together to establish the most efficient use of the film of Mission 1108 in light of the increased emphasis. The Chairman COMIREX arrPpte these recommendations and asked that the Chairman ICRS and Chairman MCGWG quickly arrange a joint meeting to discuss what steps could be taken. p G C~~7 J C~ ( 0-0m 12 EK Approved F o aReJea /11 _ ~ CIA-R D~ 7-O9A0005Q4Q1d@ v of - O~~pyaF~ 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A I ,a Approved For Re ea a 2001111107 .:.,CIA-RDP79B01709AQ 5000100'13-,3j "a MCGWG-M-49 b. eitetated and ekplalned' the overal''1 probl,em''of gaps in the KH- coverage outside the Sino Soviet pointing out the major problems to current DoD production for medium scale maps and charts and general support of tactical operations in contingency areas, summed up the specific coverage requirements related to current stereo production of TOPOCOM and ACIC encompassing Latin America, Near East, West Africa and South Africa. It was pointed out that the total 1st priority area in which the gaps are located, amounted to about 4,200,000 square statute miles. Coverage was on hand for about 65% of this area but because of slivers and gaps scattered throughout the area, complete coverage was on hand for less than 357 of the map-chart areas currently in production. C. of NRO described the recent analysis made by NRO indicating that t e problem of filling gaps was very difficult and that it was necessary to use a relatively high amount of film for a relatively small net gain in square miles where narrow long slivers are involved. The group recognized that net square miles was not a good indication of the value received but that credit would better be recognized in terms of map-chart sheets completed. It was agreed that TOPOCOM would propose different methods for identifying coverage for MC&G purposes, entioned that analysis by his office indicated that an estimate of 9827 of the film of the next 5 KH-4B missions would be needed to complete 81% of the gaps in the' 4,200,000 square statute mile area. However in the refinement work being done by his office he expected that these figures would be a bit more favorable. d. specifically indicated that the MCGWG would like to see a eecent muc greater than 5% for MC&G coverage outside the Sino Soviet, commented on the overall high priority intelligence requirements an t e stretchout of the KH-4 program. Because of high priority intelligence requirements he indicated that whatever film was used for MC&G purposes should be an efficient application raised the question as to why it was necessary to consider any specs is percent of film and that the problem seemed to be increased emphasis still making efficient use of the film. In the discussion it was recognized that from the analysis made by NRO there was very little loss in efficiency of film use up to approximately 20% but beyond-this point one could 'expect a relatively inefficient use. Since... there had been discussion as to whether there might be more important areas within the overall 1st priority areas commented that there was not a great distinction among the 1st priority areas and accordingly weather should be primary factor for all 1st priority areas. However, on the theoretical basis that weather was the same*in all 1st priority areas, the overall DoD priority within the 1st priority area would be in order: Near East, West Africa and then Latin America and South Africa. e. said he could not make any commitment but his committee would cre u y watch how coverage was collected during the mission against priority objectives and would do what they could, in view of overall priorities to increase the coverage for MC&G,. TCS ?65 4015-70, Approved For Release 2001/11/07 ;::GjA-pDP79B01709A0005000100 - r 2 Approved For Re ea a 2001/11/07 jCIA-RbP79B01709AQ500010~3; f. In general it was concluded that ICRS fully understood the MC&G requirement and that mission 1108 would be followed closely by ICRS with the objective of increasing the MC&G coverage when it could be done efficiently. COMIREX MC&G Working Group Copy 1, 2 DIA TCO 3- 5 Army TCO 6, 7 Navy TCO 8, 9 Air Force TCO 10 NRO 11 NRO 12 TSO CIA 14 NSA TCO 15 NSA 16,17 NPIC 18,19 CIA Mew 20 CIA COMIREX Member 21,22 Ch/ICRS 3 Ch/COMIREX 24 COMIREX St; 25 DIA COMIREX Memb 26-30 Ch/MCGWG 3 TCS-654015 7.O Approved For Release 2001/11/07 CIA-RDP79BO1709A000500010013-3, HANDL--- V.A v-y POL,