ARGO COMMITTEE MEETING, 10 JUNE 1968. EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING, ROOM 303, 1000 HOURS

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• Publication Date: June 12, 1968
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1T: A.;(X) Committee Meeting, 10 June 1968. Executive Office
Building, Room 303, 1000 flours
1. A\ cncy participants:
2. This was the first meeting of a reconstituted committee cc
consider "civilian agencies"' use of ICI satellite materials, a fo: low-up
of the ARGO exercise of last year.
3. noted that the President had been informed about the
c.,,:itcnts of the ARGO Report and the possibilities indicated therein,
t:. _t the results were exploratory, and that rollow-up was planned. The
ident approves of the course of action.
4. ilornig will write a letter to the -participating agencies stating what
he thinks purpose of committee is. fe will say function is to: (1) collect
and consolidate the views and needs of the "civilian agencies" for Ki photography,
(2) make these known to the intelligence community, and (3) discuss with the
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SUuSECT:r ARGO Committee Meeting, 10 June 1968. Executive Office
Building, Room 303, 1000 flours
iatelligence community procedures. The on-going ICI intelligence resource can
be made use of by the "civilian agencies" under the present rules and security
restrictions and it is the purpose of the committee to consider in that light.
It is not to be the committee's function to relieve the Agencies of the
resporLyibility for establishing and justifying needs.
then briefly reviewed the follow-up projects suggested
?y til i g agencies in the Executive Summary of the ARGO Report, Inc
n the Agencies' responses to Iiornig's covering letter to that report. Di.,;
cussio.n then went around the table.
of Transportation (Transportation was not a participant in the
previous ARGO exercise) had queries on operations costs, aircraft vs. satellite;
wou:c like figures like "cost per square mile per feet ground resolution".
said the committee should consider, but referred to NASA, which is
a similar committee and which will be involved with cQ t. re
u:al1:~d that this committee will have its first meeting 16 ~- One of -its
li_,c;:.ions will be to consider the impact of the ARGO study.
briefly reviewed COMIREX organization and procedures for
_.If:t o t e group. lie remarked on the recent experimental use of tai-Color,
sal.. c would like to have their evaluation, and a briefing was su. -sted
incluurg types of subjects of interest to them which were covered.
incl...-,.ed that a briefing would probably be most advantageous to after
our prcliminary technical studies were a little further along. res~ in-
dicat~c' afterward that he would like to see an indication of areas covered
and it was agreed this would be followed by a briefing when
i. We will have a graphic of potentially useable Bi-Color coverage
avail: ble for the next meeting).
S. The Agencies then commented on their plans. for State/AID
revie.:u thinking to date and reported meeting with Lundahl last week. They
will attempt to have a specific project formulated within three weeks, will
cheer. :pith NPIC as to whether coverage available. A question is whether to
opt for historical or current study or combination was recommending
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RE materials, and indicated OEP will come-to thelcommittee`wit nrequestsefor
coverage of U.S. cities not presently available.
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use of KU material for
(a) Antarctic mapping, and (b) updating land use maps (now ten years behind
schedule) and urban maps (now 5 to 50 years old). For the latter, >-i material
would be used to determine which areas should be flown by aircraft and most
economically get unclassified material.
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n the AID Project)
noted that-Agriculture does not now have a world mission", but the work
envisioned "could generate such a mission, i.e., contributing to National
Intelligence Estimates".
for ESSA noted their chief two areas of present interest
were ryuro o,!y and oceanography, including snow-cover and sea-ice surveys.
They would lice to review more material. Noted that Index photogr,nhy OK for
cloud studies, may not be sufficiently good for sea-ice survey. At this point
Tidwell noted that ways and means of sanitizing and reducing classification
of Index photography were being considered.
Ion'< % ? or Agriculture (which will be invol
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?~-1-0 uic Lu?ulLLee w111 nave
as its primary objective, a series of papers of proposed studies reflecting
the operational requirements of the participating "civilian agencies". He
emphasized that such specifics are a necessary first step for further action.
.3. Next meeting, Wednesday, 10 July 1968, 1000 hours. DIA (for Foreign
Base Line Mapping), AID/Agriculture, and Interior will present briefings.
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