OXCART/SR-71 INFORMATION FOR EXCOM MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00980R000600060013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: December 19, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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M'tiMORA!IDU~ roR: Director a,f Central Intelll;tence

iUBJECT OXCAR1'hm-11 Inf'ormat ion tor E'tCOJ.1
Meeting

1. This -memorandum 11$ tor your In:forma tion f')111y.

2. The EXCOH meeting scheduled for 1600 hours
20 ~~cember 1907 was called to revie~ the scheduled phase-
OIJt of the OXCART program and determine 11' any revision
in earlier dec.isions should be Bade. Yoa wIll recnll
that the schedule I!~reed to earlier WDS removal of the
OXCART :from hdene. in late .January o.r early FE'!br'.lary so
that the3R-71 CQuld be in place and L~8ume res~)nslbl11ty
for North Vietnarfl ~!igs1on8 by 15 February_ It was .further
lI.greed that ~e would maintaIn an operntion.al capability at
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be plAced In storage l~edlately after 31 Marcb and I I 25X1
D clotled as soon thereafter as practicl?,ble.

3. During the last couple of months a number of activities
bave been carried Q\lt to determine readiness Qf the3R-11
to take on the m.ission and to' reevaluate SOlie ot the relative
capabilities of the. OXCART and 3R-11. The two .a,jQr ques-
tlons addressed were a cOJiO..parisoo of the vulnerabl1i ty of
the two aircraft in the defensive environment at Horth
Vietnam~ a.nd 8. comparison of the (:pcras and other on
board eqllippent. Both studies have been comple'ted and 'l.e
presume that the EXCOM will be verbally briet~d by IRO on
the results. A paper summar!2.1ng the results o.f the

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