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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SUBJECT: ARGO Committee Meeting, 10 June 1968. Executive Office
Building, Room 303, 1000 }lours
1. Agency participants:
2. This was the first meeting of a reconstituted committee to
consider "civilian agencies"' use of Kl-l satellite materials, a follow-up
of the ARGO exercise of last year.
3. noted that the President had been informed about the 25X1
contents of the Report and the possibilities indicated therein,,
that the results were exploratory, and that follow-up was planned. The
President approves of the course of action.
4. Hornig will write a letter to the participating agencies stating what
he thinks purpose of committee is. He will say function is to: (1) collect
and consolidate the views and needs of the "civilian agencies" for 1q. One of its
functions will be to consider the impact of the ARGO study. J
7. ~ briefly reviewed COMIREX organization and procedures for GJ..I
benefit of the group. lie remarked on the recent experimental use of Bi-Color,
said he would like to have their evaluation, and a briefing was suggested
including types of subjects of interest to them which were covered. 25X1
indicated that a briefing would probably be most advantageous to present after
our preliminary technical studies were a little further along. in- 25X1
dicated afterward that he would like to see an indication of areas covered
given them, and it was agreed this would be followed by a briefing when
feasible. We will have a graphic of potentially useable Bi-Color coverage
available for the next meeting).
8. The Agencies then commented on their plans. for State/AlD 25X1
reviewed thinking to date and reported meeting with Lundahl last week. They
will attempt to have a specific project formulated within three weeks, will
check with NPIC as to whether coverage available. A question is whether to
opt for historical or current study or combination was recommending 25X1
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SIJBJECT: ARGO Committee Meeting, 10 June 1968. Executive Office
Building, Room 303, 1000 hours
former) for Agriculture (which will be involved in the AID Project)
noted th iculture does not now have a world mission", but the work
envisioned "could generate such a mission, i.e., contributing to National
Intelligence Estimates".
9. for LSSA noted their chief two areas of present interest
were hydrology and oceanography, including snow-cover and sea-ice surveys.
They would like to review more material. Noted that Index photography 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.
10. for USGS noted their planned 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, KU material
would be used to determine which areas should be flown by aircraft and most
economically get unclassified material.
III materials, and indicated OEP will come to the committee with requests for
coverage of U.S. cities not presently available.
12. summarized: In next six months the committee will have
as its primary objective, a series of papers of proposed studies reflecting
the operational requirements of the participating "civilian agencies". lie
emphasized that such specifics are a necessary first step for further action.
13. Next meeting, Wednesday, 10 July 1968, 1000 hours. DIA (for Foreign
Base Line Mapping), AID/Agriculture, and Interior will present briefings.
Assistant to Deputy Director, NPIC
Distribution:
Copies 1,6 - NPIC/ODIR Copy 4 - NPIC/PSG
2 - NPIC/PPBS 5 - NPIC/TSSG
3 - NPIC/IEG
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