LETTER TO VICE ADMIRAL HAROLD G. BOWEN, JR, FROM VICE ADMIRAL NOEL GAYLER

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• Publication Date: May 1, 1970
• Content Type: LETTER

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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
serial: 14 0+42
1 May 19 70
CONFIDENTIAL
Vice Admiral Harold G.. Bowen, Jr., USN
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)
Room 3C-200, The Pentagon
Washington, D. C. 20301
Dear Hal:
I am happy to see by your 29 April memorandum that we have
reached basic agreement on the structure for CIRIS-71. I realize
we still have to work out some of the technical details but I am
sure this can be accomplished.
I am designating o be available to your
office on a temporary basis to aid in the CIRIS construction. Mr.
alternate.
With warm regards,
NOEL GAYLER
Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy
Director
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OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301
2 9 APR 1970
SUBJECT: NSA CIRIS Proposal
References: (a) Ltr frm Adm Gayler to Mr. Froehlke, 1 Apr 70
(b) Memo for DASD(I) frm Mr. Neff, subj: Report.ng
Entities, Z Apr 70 (712411)
First, I want to thank you for your CIRIS proposal and th4~ wore:
done by your CIRIS Task Force. I my Director of CItIS
activities, has been reviewing and discussing the draft proposal with
your Task Force members and Chairman of the Interagen'
CIRIS Committee, since the latter part of February.
The substance of the review of the NSA proposal can be found Fn
the attachment. I have discussed the review with ani
generally agree with the proposals for CIRIS-71.
As a next step, I have asked to convene the Defense
CIRIS Working Group in order to review the DASD(I) Planning for
CIRIS-71. At that time your representative can respond to any of the
items in the attachment that NSA may feel requires further discussio .
What is important now is that we in DASD(I) resolve the probler.is of
the larger Defense CIRIS request for CY 1971.
Should there be any unresolved issues on the part of NSA at tiro!
conclusion of the CIRIS Working Group meetings, I have directed
to bring them to my attention so that you and I can discus s
them before I make a final decision.
Your offer to make available to my office on a temporary
basis a member of the NSA Task Force is most generous. As you
have recognized, CIRIS development represents a considerable
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arold G. Bowe'?r; Jr.
ice Admiral, USN
Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Intelligence)
task. I gladly accept your offer. It may be that you would also like to
have the designee as your member on the Defense CIRIS Working Grc=t..
I trust that he will also be able to help us in obtaining and organizing trte
NSA data for CIRIS-70.
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