CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR PROJECT OXCART

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00980R000600050037-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 37
• Content Type: MF

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Dr. roch.% ayr Zt. a luau
> hector, i% -ti al Recc issance
t: ontingenncy planning for Project jX(7AJkT
t the .rector, rograu. I), is moving
as calling for the delivery of the first At,
T version to "wards Air Force Base, California,
successive prototypes are punned for initial #iiht
test.i,ng. ere this courser of action to be continued without suitable
c tinn.ncyr planning, we would fied oarsolves in the late sprixxg of
1.164 with z o suitable alternative to vet amounts to _e facto our-
facing. when the first Air Force aircraft shows up at r a vt!arts.
. %cce-rriit iyr, t request that y c" instruct the Director,
aloplog in the next fear woks a contingency plan which
permit the first prototype of the Air Force version of O CAXt 1"
accanbdat.d I
I erstsnd that = -9 preliminary night
e USAF aircraft can be conduct,d ftr the
Shly I A st through 31 December 1'064. This titxae
i t+e. vs,l naayr be critical wliex, viewed against the prospective tpor-
atioa 1 readiness date of OXCART. now estimated for n id-a in')er
of 1')64.
3. 1 have directed Colonel LARdorat, as Director of Off., to
Ise at of this plaza, and to h.+eep the Director periodically
ropriate facilities of the Agency are made available
General, D
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