PRINCIPALS' MEETING ON PERIPHERAL RECONNAISSANCE, 2 JULY 1973

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2005
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• Publication Date: July 5, 1973
• Content Type: MFR

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5 July 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Principals' Meeting on Peripheral
Reconnaissance, 2 July 1973
1. The subject meeting was chaired by Dr. Hall, ASD(I).
The purpose was to have the Steering Committee brief the principals
on the DoD approach to responding to Dr. Kissinger's memorandum
of 5 June 1973. Attending were:
for E. W. Proctor, CIA
2. Dr. Hall announced that the 30 July deadline cited in the
Kissinger memorandum had been extended to 31 August 1973.
3. General Davidson, as Chairman of the Steering Committee,
described the organization of the six DoD task teams and the tasks for
each. In the discussion of Team 6 activities, I suggested that the study
include a detailed review of the need for penetration authority based on
assessments of the information gained versus the risk and political
consequences of detection and identification.
Admiral de Poix, DIA
DIA (Steering Committee)
Ray S. Cline, State
Seymour Weiss, State
NSA
General Davidson, ASD(I) (Steering Committee)
General Haupt, JCS (Recce) (Steering Committee)
General Lew Allen, DCI/IC Staff
Andy Marshall, NSC Staff
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Hall, Davidson and Haupt were not keen on getting
into this question; Hall argued that such a study could
not be undertaken in the short time available.
Cline supported the proposition but thought that such
a study would be difficult.
Hall then conceded that the question should be treated
in the Team 6 study.
I offered to have the CIA Representative to Team 6
1 1 make available to the Team his outline
or a study of the question.
4. In reviewing the approach to "Priorities" by Team 1,
General Davidson said that the Team would use the DCID 1/2
Supplement, the JSOP Annex A, and the DoD/JCS Critical Near Term
Collection Requirements. I suggested that:
most of the "requirements" used to justify these missions
would fall in the first two or three of the nine priorities
in the DCID 1/2 matrix and in the JSOP Annex A;
such a meager spread would, provide no real basis for
judging relative priorities of what these missions are
working against.
Davidson said this might be so but that DCID 1/2 gave the "authoritative"
priorities for U. S. intelligence objectives.
5. Of the handouts, one was a timetable for the study and the
other was some sort of flow chart. Both showed USIB in the act and
the timetable listed 3 August as a date for "data received from USIB
Committees. " Lew Allen challenged this, asking what that meant.
General Davidson responded that they had drafted a letter for de Poix's
signature asking the DCI to have USIB committees (CCPC, COMIREX
and SIGINT) provide the "authoritative" word on the degree to which
these missions satisfy USIB requirements.
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Lew Allen pointed out that the DCI (Schlesinger) had
already chosen to designate his Deputy Director for
Intelligence to provide the judgments on the value of
these missions to national intelligence and had so
informed Secretary Clements.
I added that we were well down the road on this effort;
we had identified about ten or so programs of possible
interest to national intelligence (plus six on Southeast
Asia) and were fully tied into the DoD Task Teams in
providing these judgments.
Lew Allen pointed out that he would have guessed only
about ten or 12 of these programs could be related to
"national intelligence" requirements- -the remainder
are driven by theatre commander needs to meet a JCS
requirement.
- Admiral de Poix decided that he should not sign such a
memorandum to the DCI--if one were to be sent, it should
come from the Secretary of Defense himself.
In conclusion, Dr. Hall stated that he would convene the Group once
or twice more to review progress of the study.
6.
to take a
talked to
I
reading on the "USIB Committee" proposal. Allen had already
about turning off the idea and riding with our judgments.
has the action.
7. I also gave a copy of the OSR outline for study of
the penetration question and asked him to lean on DoD to use it in Task
Team 6. He will do so via
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Subsequently, I contacted
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1. Team # 1
(Task 1)
2. Team Th2
(Task 2, 3, 4)
3. Team #3
(Task 5)
4. Team #4
(Task 6)
5. Team #f5
ORGANIZA 210N
Requirements, Priority and Collection
Strategy (All Systems)
All Missions from Performance Requirements
to Results and Value, Risk and Cost
potential for Increased Use of Unmanned
and Overhead Vehicles
Risk and Response Assessment
0
Complete
(All pertinent tasks)
Team #6
I F omplete
(All pertinent tasks)
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STATED AND ITM1-i,IED TASKS
1. Are the intelligence requirements valid and in the correct
priority?
2. Are collection requirements consistent with intelligence
requirements ?
3. What is the justification of current COMINT, ELINT, and
imagery collection?
cost?
4. Is there a balance between priority and value versus risk and
5. What is the potential for increased use of unmanned and
overhead vehicles ?
6. Is the system adequate to assess risks to vulnerable collection
operations and adequate to respond to incidents?
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SCHEDU ~E
2 July - Brief Principal's Group
17 July - Start Visit's" td Major Commands
25 July Data received from Theaters
31 July - Complete visits to Commands
3 August - Data received from USIB Committees-
10 August - 1st Draft Prepared
24 August - Staffing Complete
30 August - Presentation to Sec Def., et al.
31 August - Submission
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