CORONA MANAGEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66R00546R000100060188-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 188
• Content Type: MF

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2. 1st us 0,68W
McMi llan's proposal
and the improved perior
itself, I feel that this
if we sssinultanomaly try to
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atral Intellige
request of 9 De mber,
ng views on the CCa=A
reconnaissance business, even
dear to my own heart.
is expected to bring
at 3:30 P.M.
sole criterion in judgint
jest management of CO !
the reconnaissance syssatet"
-al problem is confused
nject CIA into the satellite
though this theme is very
3. Two thins are clear from a candid review 0
the CORONA program history. _first, it- has ~e n don me
tl
y
quite differen
has relied on a small, well integrated group of people
placing great reliance on the contractors. Second, the
primary program respone t bi li tf used to be vested in
Bissell and Ritiand, but this has disappeared in recent
.
at the too
years so that now there is, in fact, a vacuum
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ce con
The project off
but there is no real
it alwsys did
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the pseotram net as
program director who is responsible to you or to McMillen.
4. Bc*i l laws proposes to Lill this vacuum by naming
Greer as the responsible of l icer to amide the affairs of
ne to turn
the project office. This will give bin scmaeo
ible
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to and lu ris
is also clear from our industrial feedb*ciic that the Air
Force intends to substitute afortsroreielaoratonan tour
perhaps bettor di.sctplinod pr~~~-
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run in a tidy but a
Force procurement p
S. The real question In
solution will in f
the CORONA system.
basis of what I knA
that this wil
will
succ
failure
element is
that he will be able
time on iRONA. T
day help will continu
Col. Worthington, but perba,
count on is that the method
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The program
at* Way *Ion
is whother this
performance in
myself on the
'a organization
against
it will
arkable
and I a an
i ng
lily new
t imagine
more than A fraction of his
insible for the day-to-
the group under
enlarged. What we must
peratioa in Greer's
organization is such that the Worthington organization
will function far more effeetively in that cont*Ct.
The burden of demonstration seems clearly to rest on
McMillan.
6. 1 cannot honestly support such a change without
'
s
knowing in detail a peat deal more about t reeer
ability and the way in which he would approach the
ca
p
problem, and this would require a searching visit to the
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have enough confidence in McMillan and his convinctio
to sake this change on his a r.co**eatdation alone.
7. We had a genera l discussion on this problem
h J bins McMillan, Carter and myself last week and
,._ were able to agree that now change in the management
is required. A responsible imdividuaal needs to be
designated for the ANA program who is adequately
supported by the staff, contractors and resources
necessary to produce this program. This need can be
I say that it
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