PROGRAMMING OF CORONA SHOTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001900140029-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: October 22, 1961
• Content Type: MF

Approver Release 2004/07/08: CIA-RDP80B76R001900140029-8
COR-1390
Copy of
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
: Programming of CORONA Shots
REFERENCE : Minutes of Special Group Meeting Held
6 October 1961, Para. 2 (COR-1380)
1. The COMOR has advised that Soviet Russia is still the
highest priority area for CORONA coverage and has further
advised that coverage of China is desired only if it can be obtained
at no cost to the primary objective.
2. A program tape for each mission is submitted twenty-
one days prior to the scheduled firing. Each mission is over-
programmed by approximately 150 per cent and the over-programming
includes passes over China. If it were necessary to recover the
vehicle after only two days of operation, these passes would be
taken in order to use up the film payload. On a three or four day
operation, virtually all of the film would be expended over the
Soviet Union.
3. Once again, it should be noted that CORONA coverage of
the South China border area will not provide the tactical information
needed to satisfy the COMOR requirement.
RICHARD M. BISSELL, J
Deputy Director
(Plans)
NRO review(s) completed.
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