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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B00224R000300420001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 22, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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2 2 JUN '671
DD/S&2-19,70-71
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Research AandvieDevelopment
Director, Special
SUBJECT: Project
1. Attached hereto is a copy of Executive Director-
Comptroller's memorandum regarding the meeting with the DCI
on project
2. I invite your attention particularly to paragraph
three in which the Executive Director-Comptroller has agreed
to make $1,100,000 of FY 1971 Funds available for the next
90 days and also to his limitation on the use of any FY 1972
funds for project
Attachment:
As stated
(Sign
Carl E. Duckett
Deputy Director
for
Science and Technology
For:
25X1
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1 R June 191171
N 1i:MORANDUM YOR: Director of P1*-nning, Programming, and
liluclgtttlnlC
5U1lJECT : Project
1. On 16 Juno 1971 CA-rl Duckett and I rnet with the 1.'irnctor
and General Cuuhnian to report on the atatutt of Project
And to acol- rttidanco on the course 'of action wo othrntlrl now purnlte.
A. $1. 1 million would be approximately c+nnagh money
to continua the project on a bare-bonen approach for approxi-
mately ninety days.
Carl retorted on the last teat flight, during which
and oleo pointed out the following:
b. If we cdociclo to go ahead with the project. the
~,. 5 million in the Fiscal Year 1972 budget will probably not
be onouih. At thin point in time we do not 1-.now bow much
more would ho neodod.
c. If we go ahead with tho project, X inca1 Year ) 973
will be the peak budget year, and we 0ha)1 aced At )e:tint
$10 million and probably $15 million for the project r1ttring
that fiscal year.
d. Li the light of SALT ncwl,rtlrttionv. [Fine-l'ong clililo
n,ncy, and the like, we neocl to a~tinty cntrnr-lven to thn oxt~nt
p"Onihlo that, nnnurrting we produce n ~~; ~r,)r tr;, `r ,1tr>>l11 an~+Pt.
Nve aha11 hn porrnltted to uuo it over