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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 10 October 1969 

MEMORArH)UM FOR THE RECORp 

SUBJECT: Meeting with Dave Packa~d, October 2 

1. NASA Guidelines. 

I discussed with Davs Pac~~rd the qus~tion of revising 

the guidelines which divide ~ASA responsibility from NRO 

responsibility. I told him that I thought we iad a paper which 

would be satisfactory to him and to Lee DuBridie &nd had shown 

it to Dick Helms first because he was the one I thought might 

be sensitive. I told him tha~ I thought the only change which 

Helms might object to is the one wherein we specifically say 

that we would not want to impose any restrictions on NASA with 

respect to astronomical operations. 

2. U-2 Flights Over Cuba. 

I mentioned that we had occasion recently to examine 

whether or not the U-2s were nee~ed to get the necessary photographic coverage of Cuba a~d that DIA had conducted a s~udy 

which in effect has caused ttem to reduce their state~ requirements for coverage by~ i~ctcr of two. At the same ~~me, they 

had insisted that we ~J:.:~~in at least one overflight p8r month 

in Cuba on the b2 .. ~. ;.;;,,, we want tl:.em 1:0 l,;::::ow that we are still 

there. I said t,:, : ·_::2-t I did :,1or '.:22.nk that such a decision 

was proper to ·c:c ,__:_. :< in a US:-!:3 ,:·ec_,_::.Tement let alone a 

DIA requiremen" ~~~~ this was essentially a political decision. 

Dave said we: to ta~e this to the 303 Commit~ee. 

3. TAGi3C: 

Dave re_~~-·~~ ~o the rece~ 3C3 disc~ss_ -~out whether 

we would use TAG or SOi,h,, other means c:S:' overfly _::a. He 

said that the gist of the discussions,_;;:__: that: -~-~---·~o woulC:. 

not be used in China and he felt that~ it would n=t be used 

there, then it was unlikely it would b; ~sed anywhere else. He 

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could envision some situation where we might want to overfly 

Russia using TAG. In any case, the tone of his questioning 

led me to propose that we do a little study of what would be 

involved if we decided to put the TAGBOARD in storage for a 

period of years until such time as we do have some real requirements for overflight where TAG would be suitable. He thinks 

it would be a good idea to conduct such a stμdy, taking into 

account the possible desirability of having another test flight 

before we stop and bring~ng out such factors as how long we 

could go without another flight, what the cost would be of 

maintaining the remaining drones in various states of readiness, 

etc. 

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John L. McLucas 

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