COMMITTEE ON IMAGERY REQUIREMENTS AND EXPLOITATION

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• Publication Date: April 10, 1969
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COMMITTEE ON IMAGERY REQUIREMENTS AND EXPLOITATION
The following is an index of the Minutes of the 10 April 1969
COM:[REX meeting:
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Special Briefing - Status Report on ICBM Coverage
Section I (Approval of Minutes, Briefings, and Reports on Operations)
Pag e Approval of Minutes
Page 5 Operational Briefing - -Satellite
5 Report on Aircraft Activities --Far East
8 Report on Aircraft Activities--Cuba
Section II (NPIC Report)
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Section III (Subcommittee and Working Group Reports)
Page 10 Report from Imagery Collection Requirements
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Subcommittee
Report from Exploitation Research and Development
Subcommittee
Section IV (Action Items)
Page 11 Report by Chairman on COMIREX Action on Advance
in Launch of Mission 1050
Section V (Status of Recent COMIREX Papers)
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Revision of FY 1969 Basic Requirements Tasked to
Army (COMIREX-D-31. 4/25)
NRO and DIA review(s) completed.
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Security and Handling Policy for China Drone
Overflights
Tab B - High resolution Coverage of North
Vietnam, 9 April 1969
Tab C - SS-9 and SS-11 Launch Starts
Tab D - Summary of CCRP Status as of 31 March 1969
Tab E - Alternate Orbits for Mission 1051 to
Masimize Coverage of Soviet ICBM Complexes
as of 31 March 1969
Tab F - Coverage of Far Eastern Requirements
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Section I (A)proval of Minutes, Briefings, and Reports on Operations)
Approval of Minutes
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1. COMIREX-M-65 were approved as written.
Operational Briefing- -Satellite
2. reported on satellite operations and
schedules as of 10 April 1969. See page 7 for details.
Report on Aircraft Activities--Far East
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3. I Ireported that there were six
successful and six unsuccessful BUMPY ACTION sorties during
the period 28 March - 10 April. All were low and all were against
traditional targets as indicated in the chart below:
AREAS/TARGETS RESULTS
Ha Tou Boat Rpr Fac, Hon Lost
Gai Port Fac, Haiphong Port
Fac, Kien An Afld, Haiphong
Nav Base, Haiphong RR Sta &
Yd, Cat Bi Afld
Rte 1A MARS
Hanoi Port Fac, Gia Lam Afld Lost
Hiep Hoa Afld, Kep Afid, Lost
Kep RR Yd
Cat Bi Afld, Kien An Afld, MARS
Rte 10
Hiep Hoa Afld, Kep Afld, Kep Lost
RR Yd
SAM 334+, 331
SAM 73, Kep Afld, Hiep Hoa
Afld
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en Vien RR Yd, Gia Lam Afld,Lost
anoi Port Fac, Bac Mai Afid
laiphong Port/RR4/Rte 1A MARS
Nam Dinh Tr Pt, TPP/Bac Mai Lost
Afid/Gia Lam Afid
SAM 334+, 331 MARS
4, I I reported that there were four GIANT
SCALE missions flown during the period 28 March - 10 April.
AREA/TARGETS RESULTS
Yen Bai Afid/Yen Bai Cmplx/ GOOD
Kep/Phuc Yen/Cam Pha Prt/
Hon Gai Prt
Port Wallut Nav Base/Lang Son FAIR
Lang-Son Cmplx/Dong Dang RR
Yd/Lao Cai Cmplx/RR1
Rte 1A/Viet Tri RR Yd/Hoa Lac FAIR
Afld/RR 7/RR 4
Vinh Afld/Ben Thuy TSP/Rte 1A/ Unk
Dong Hoi Afld/Bai Thuong Afid
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5. I Ireported a U-2R IDEALIST/TACKLE mission
was flown on 8 April 19 9.
no er as een programme to north of the r'ormosa
Strait w is could look at the SAWRFs. There were no FOOD FAIR
missions during the period.
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South China/North Vietnam requirements as follows:
a. Coverage of Lines of Communications (LOC)
pertinent to the introduction of Chinese forces into North
Vietnam (see COMOR-D-25/207, 4 March 1966). The
number of LOC priority targets in South China and North
Vietnam remains at 352. For the period 3 March - 9 April
1969, no surveillance coverage was reported. (For that
reason, there will not be a Tab A to these Minutes. )
b. Coverage of North Vietnam to detect the
possible introduction or deployment of offensive missile
systems (see COMOR-D-25/200, 23 May 1967, and COMIREX-
D-25.3/2, 20 November 1967) is shown on the grid map at
Tab 13 for the period 27 March - 2 April 1969. Six BUMPY
ACTION missions flown during this time period and considered
successful have not been recorded No SSM activity was
observed.
Report on Aircraft Activities- -Cuba
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7. Three GLASS LAMP missions were flown on 4, 5,
and 9 April.
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beginning 1-3 February 1969 eight GLASS LAMP missions were flown
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IA targets in Cuba were covered completely on cloud-free photography,
not including the three most recent missions flown on 4, 5, and 9 April.
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Section III (Subcommittee and Working Group Reports)
Report from Imagery Collection Requirements Subcommittee
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1. The Acting Chairman, ICRS, distributed copies of
the monthly report on CCRP satisfaction (see Tab D). He pointed
out that it is significant that we now stand at the highest point of
accomplishment since we have been keeping this over the past year.
commented that this certainly speaks well for the
NRO and the application of the software to the CCRP. He said that,
if the CCRP is a meaningful thing, we should have some degree of
security of where we stand from the intelligence standpoint as a
result of coming so close to fulfillment of its requirements.
Report from. Exploitation Research and Development Subcommittee
2. reminded COMIREX members that
April starts the annual budget cycle. FY 1970 R&D programs are
in the process of having the doors closed on them; it is time to
reevaluate and project another year on the five-year program. He
pointed out that, with the growing limitations on R&D funds, EXRAND
will be able to accomplish even more this year than in the past. The
greatest impact will be seen in greater joint purchasing arrangements
after the R&D phase is completed, but there should also be some
noticeable improvement in coordination prior to and during the R&D
phase itself.
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Section IV (Action Items)
Report byActing Chairman on COMIREX Action on Advance in Launch
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1. reminded members that at the special
meeting held on 1 April 1969 COMIREX had reached tentative
agreement on the question of whether or not the should fly on 25X1A
Mission 1051 and was aware of some of the options which at that time
were applicable to rescheduling 1051. Subsequent to the meeting,
however, it was learned the earliest date 1051 could be launched was
about 1 May and that consequently a decision to retain or conversely
to remove the would have no effect on how soon that mission
could be launched. Therefore, rather than prepare a paper recommending
a particular alternative, it was decided to forward an information
memorandum to the DCI relating the facts relative to the launch of 1051 25X1A
and outlinin the actions taken by COMIREX to maximize coverage of
I by both Mission 1051 25X1 D
Subsequent to the preparation of this memorandum, the NRO reported
that it was possible to fly Mission 1051 at an orbital inclination of 25X1A
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Section V (Status of Recent COMIREX Papers)
Revision of FY 1969 Basic Re uirements Tasked to Arm
(COMIREX-?D-31, 4/25)
1. There having been no request by a COMIREX member
to place the above paper on the agenda for discussion, it is hereby
made a matter of record that the revision of FY 1969 Basic Require-
ments tasked to Army was approved by COMIREX this date.
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Security and Handling Policy for China Drone Overflights
1. distributed a draft memorandum
to COMIREX on the above subject and asked members to take time
to read it and then discuss it. Since the 303 Committee has authorized
drone overflights of China and planning is proceeding for carrying out
such flights, DIA felt that some procedures should be worked out for
handling the product of such flights.
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Commands were asked to develop some suitable tracks for drone
overflights. These have now been received and are undergoing
review frorn the standpoint of risk assessment and the like. Commands
were also asked to send in information on targets of national interest
and local theater interest. The target information is expected within
the next week or so.
3? pointed out that the policy DIA is
advocating is no different from that already approved in USIB-D-41. 17/41,
12 August 1964.
4. indicated that he felt that in the subject of
the memorandum, and other places throughout the memorandum as
appropriate, the area should be changed to read "South China" rather
than China because that is the only authorization at this time. He
said that he thought it was probably safe to assume that the same general
patterns will be used as were in effect before the recent standdown.
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consideration, I Ianswered that agencies had been requested
to prepare priority listings of targets within two hundred miles of the
North Vietnam border for consideration by ICRS next week. He
reminded members that they already have COMIREX-approved targets
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6. With regard to handling instructions, COMIREX
believed that classification and control should be retained as
before even though it is not contemplated that the drones will
be recovered requested
to revise the DIA proposal to include
specifying S3outh China and to amend the recommendation by
dropping alternatives and simply retaining the recommendation that
the policy for handling drone photography of China be the same as
for U-2 photography. Members, meanwhile, were requested to staff
the paper through their organizations and report concurrence with
the recommendation to the Office of the Chairman, COMIREX, by
close of business Monday, 14 April.
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