LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS AND MISSION DIRECTIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B00224R000300420019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: November 18, 1969
• Content Type: MEMO

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18 INOV 1969
SUBJECT: Letter of Instructions and Mission Directive
I. Assumption of Duties
You will proceed on or about 1 July 1970
to assume your duties as Field
Program Director for rojec You will, in this
capacity, be representing the Director, Office of Special Activities
and will be the senior permanently-assigned Project Field rep-
resentative for the project. Upon arrival you will
contact the Commander of that location who will have been
informed of the duties and responsibilities you will assume.
II. Status
a. Your status is that of Director
of all aspects of Project field
activities.
b. Your status as Field Director will
be made known to those U.S. officials and
industry personnel whose cooperation in
furtherance of your mission will be solicited.
c. The status of your unit
is as a tenant on that Base (IAW Project
Hqs Directive 50-10-3 (BYE-9362-68)).
You will be required to coordinate your
scheduled activities with the Area
Commander to preclude conflicts with any
other scheduled activity in or around
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d. Your status as regarding the ORD-
managed test phase of this project is that
of an interested observer. However, as you
will ultimately have the responsibility for
operating the equipment under development;
you are encouraged to report, through this
Hqs, on areas where the operational application
of this program could be improved.
You are to develop and maintain an operationally
ready unit capable of executing its assigned mission, as directed
by Project Headquarters.
IV. Operational Duties and Responsibilities
a. Within Field Unit your
assignment is tat of Chief of all OSA-
directed operations, with authority over
all CIA staff, contract, and detailed
personnel, and as such, you have the
responsibility for the supervision of
the CIA-directed activities phased through
your program.
b. Within the framework of the program
for your unit, and under the directives you
will receive from Headquarters, you will
utilize personnel, materiel, facilities
and funds so as to ensure the most effective
use of these assets toward the accomplishment
of the overall mission.
c. You will maintain compartmentation
of activities and personnel to the extent
required by security and as necessary to
preserve the long-term effectiveness of
the program.
d. You will manage your administrative
and support functions to the extent and in
the manner you deem best to carry out your
mission.
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e. You will develop and maintain training,
operational, support, and emergency procedures
for your unit that will be IAW the applicable
Headquarters directives and policies.
V. Line of Command
As Field Director, you will be responsible to
the Director, Office of Special Activities. You are also responsible
for implementing all directives, instructions, etc. that are received
by you, through proper channels, from the responsible Headquarters
staff components.
VI. Finance
You will review, supervise and approve all financial
and budgetary matters, plans, estimates and expenditures relating to
your operations. Current authorizations and limitations to expend
funds, including contractional commitments, will be made known to
you; it will be your responsibility to ensure that these funding
authorizations and limitations are not exceeded, and that policies
and procedures in appropriate CIA regulatory issuances are observed.
VII. Communications
You will utilize the established communications system
and procedures between your unit and Headquarters. All communications,
both cable and dispatch, to and from your unit, will be accessible
to you to the extent and in the manner you desire. You will refer
any matter of particularly sensitive nature to the Director of
Special Activities, on an Eyes Only basis.
VIII. Security/Cover
You will be specifically charged with maintaining the
physical and operational security environment as directed by OSA
Project Headquarters which will establish security/cover policy for
your guidance and direction. You will report promptly any unusual
problems or violations to Headquarters (IAW directives governing
those problems or violations).
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You will maintain, as prescribed in reports
directives, records of activity currently in progress, status to
date and projected adherence to programmed completion dates.
Delays and amendments to programmed activities will be reported to
Project Headquarters as discrepancies are ascertained.
rigs i.er enera ,
USAF of Special Activities
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AQUI/O/OSA
Distribution:
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2 - D/SA
3 - /O/OSA
4 - A
5 - SS OSA
6 - D/O OS
7 - SAS/O/OSA
8 - B$F/COMPT/OSA
9 - CMD/COMPT/OSA
10 - PD/COMPT/OSA
11 - D/M/OSA
12 - COMLMtO/OSA
13 - RB/OSA
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