PROJECT MERCURY MANNED SPACE FLIGHT (MA-9)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001500110058-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: May 7, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM No._ -
DATE 7 ? i 1963
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (INTELLIGENCE)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (RESEARCH)
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WASHINGTON
SECRET May 3, 1963
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 237
TO: The Sccrctary of State
The Sccrctary of Defense
The Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Project MERCURY Manned Space Flight (MA-9)
The President is aware of the contingency planning with respect
to the possibility of the landing of MERCURY 9 or future Gemini
flights in the territorial waters of Communist China, North Vietnam,
or Cuba, as described in the letter dated May 1, 1963, from the
Deputy Under Secretary of State to the Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for International Security Affairs.
The President agrees that the Secretary of Defense has
adequate authority to authorize the penetration of the territorial
waters of the above countries for the purpose of locating, rendering
assistance to, and retrieving the personnel and spacecrafts.
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McGeorge Bundy
Director, Bureau of the Budget
Administrator, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration