FUTURE NORTH VIETNAM AREA COVERAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR LOOKOUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00501R000100160005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 29, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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TOP SECRET
Memo for Chairman, COMERIX
SUBJECT: Future North Vietnam area coverage requirements
for Lookout
1. Photography of selected gross areas of North Vietnam
will continue to be required and searched for Lookout purposes.
2. The Lookout need is for earliest possible detection
of the transfer to Vietnam of additional types of Communist
weapons. While surface-to-surface missiles are of special
concern, deployment of other types of significant weapons--
air defense, ground and naval--are also Lookout targets for`
early detection.
3. This means that we shall continue to need regular
;photographic coverage of selected large areas as well as the
likely transportation points through which new equipment would
be delivered. We may be able to develop some priority rating
for certain areas relative to certain weapons. Even then, it
is clear that at least broad areas along the north of Red River,
as well as extensive sectors along the lengthy coastline, will
need periodic coverage.
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4. So far, Black Shield photography provides the best
and most certain coverage for most of our large area search
purposes. KH-4 photography also can be useful, but offers
in its present quality much less detection assurance.
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`JOHN J. HICKS
Lookout Task Force
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