LETTER TO THE HONORABLE BROCKWAY MCMILLAN FROM MARSHALL S. CARTER

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: January 13, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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13 January 1965
The Honorable Brockway McMillan
Director, National Reconnaissance Office
Department of Defense
Washington, D. C.
Dear Brock--
I enclose herewith the original and one copy of our proposed
Memorandum of Agreement on CORONA. This has been worked
over very carefully by General Stewart with my people and it is
acceptable to me. I understand that it has been discussed with
you by General Stewart and I would hope that you would likewise
find it acceptable. I have therefore signed the original and the
carbon and will consider the agreement in full force and effect
upon receipt of one of the copies with your signature thereon.
This has been a long period of negotiation but I think we have
finally established a relationship that is not only workable but is
mutually compatible with national security as well as Agency and
Departmental interests.
Faithfully yours,
/s/
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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MEMORANDUM OJ' AGREEMENT
SIJ ECT: CORONA
1. This agreement between the Director, National Reconnaissance
Office, and the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence is based upon
policy guidance from the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Director of
Central Intelligence.
2. The CORONA Program in a national endeavor involving the
United States Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency within the
purview of the National Reconnaissance Program. In order to focus an
strengthen the participation of the Central Intelligence Agency in the
CORONA Program and to ensure a mechanism for sound overall manage-
ment, the following decisions are effective at once:
a. A single authoritative program manager for CORONA
is in the national interest and this manager is the Director,
& FSP, reporting directly to the D/NRO. The program manager
is responsible to the D/NRO for the successful prosecution of
the CORONA Program, for overall technical direction, and for
the direction of the field operations, responsive to the NRO
Satellite Operations Center.
b. All CIA technical and contractual activities in the
CORONA Program will be consolidated under a senior CIA.
representative who will report to and be located in the Offices
of the Director, SAFSP. Specifically, the senior CIA repre-
sentative will be responsible for the following:
(1) Provide technical direction for the CORONA
payload. By payload it is understood to include the
cameras, film transport mechanism, and associated
items peculiar to the camera system.
(2) Be the single authoritative point of contact
within the Government for CIA - let CORONA contracts
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technical direction, contracting, and security. He will
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be responsible for ensuring proper contractor performance
and compliance. This relationship will govern both the
receipt of contractor proposals for product improvement and
the issuance of new directives. It is understood that techn-
cal decisions and directions on system elements not peculiar
to the payload (for example, certain re-entry vehicle
components) may well come from through
the senior CIA representative.
(3) Be the Payload Member of a CORONA System
Configuration Control Board reporting to the Director,
SAFSP.
(4) Be the Chairman of a CORONA Payload Configura-
tion Control Board reporting directly to the Director, SAFSP.
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5 Control and direct the personnel and functions of
the facility at Palo Alto, including the payload systems
integration effort.
3. I Iwill provide systems engineering
services for the UVRONA Program in accordance with current contracts.
Required interface between I rid the CIA contractors will be
accomplished under the guidance of and/or in coordination with the senior
CIA representative, as appropriate.
4. The I acility will continue to provide software
support to the CORONA Program (for example, nominal and actual
ephemeris computation, camera programming, etc.) as it has in the
past. In this respect, the will be directly responsive to the
NRO Satellite Operations en ter fox arget requirements during both
preparatory and on-orbit operations. In addition, the assets available
at the = will continue to be available for support of operations analysis.
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director of C--ritral Intelligence
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Mr. Knoche:
Checked with Eunice on Friday,
22 January, and we have not as yet received
from Dr. McMillan a copy of the agreement
also signed by him. But you are probably up
to date on.this as result of your meetings in
LA.
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