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WASHINGTON, I?'C, 

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THE NRO STAFF August 9, 1968 

MEMORANDUM FOR DR. FLAX 

SUBJECT: Up-Dating the Vance Memorandum on DOD Satellite-Borne 

Earth Sensing Activities 

Problem: 

To coordinate a DDR&E proposed revision of the August 30, 1966 

Vance memorandum on DOD satellite-borne earth sensing devices. 

Background: 

Last AprilJ the University of Michigan held its Fifth Symposium 

on Remote Sensing of the Environment, sponsored by the university 

and the Office of Naval Research. NASA officials called this to our 

attention as an fluncoordinated meeting"; in fact, we had not heard of 

it and were grateful for the tip-off. Under the SACC aegis and John 

Kirk's leadership, we calle9 a T/KH-cleared officer in ONR and 

arranged for R"last-minute, high-speed review of all the papers. We 

found no serious problems and believed the review process had not 

disrupted the symposium. 

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, 'On June 20, 1968 Dr. A. G. Norman, Vice President for Research 

at the University of Michigan, wrote a letter to Dr. Foster (see Tab A). 

Dr. Norman discussed the many problems which confront a university 

undertaking DOD-sponsored work in an "activist" environment and citedour pre-Symposium security review as one potential troublemaker. 

A similar complaint had ,come earlier from Dr. Frederick SeitzJ 

President of the National Academy of Sciences {see Tab B}. 

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On August 2, Dr. Foster replied to both Norman and Seitz (see 

Tabs C and D) in a'n excellently-written, hold-the-security-line letter 

prepared by Mr. Nichols, DDR&E. Mr. Nichols' Covering Brief (see 

Tab E) raises a side issue in paragraph 5, pointing out that the Vance 

memorandum of August 30, 1966 on DOD satellite-borne earth sensing 

activities (see Tab F) did not specifically cover the need to coordinate 

either symposia or papers for symposia and perhaps should be up-dated 

to make future reviews absolutely legitimate. 

On August 6, Nevin Palley called me to say that he had been assigned 

the ~ask of up-dating the Vance memorandum and would I furnish a trial 

sentence or two? I did so (see Tab G) on Augus~ 8, and later that day 

Nevin coordinated both drafts with Lloyd Wilson and prepared a buck-

"sJip to send them to Dr. Foster for Mr. Nitze's signature. 

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Current Status: 

It is, of course, essential to call a halt, at this point -- if not 

earlier, and· make sure that any such papers have the DNRO's coordination and indorsement prior to their going to either Dr. Foster or Mr. 

Nitze. 

The changes, over the original version, are these: 

a. We no longer center the memorandum around the sins of the 

Engineers, the "Oceanographic Office, and the ONR. . ,'Ia"-" 'f I, , 

b. We broaden (with DDR&E' s strong support) from "satelliteborne image-forming sensors" to "satellite-borne earth sensors, " in 

orQ,e;r to insure that we get a look at everything. 

c. We broaden the scope by defining "activity" to include "feasibility studies, potential application studies ... plans for symposia and_ ---~ conferences, and papers and presentations on this subject area. " 

This much more generalized document 20vers the entire area of 

our security interest, as we s'ee it. 

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Recommendation: 

I Faeommandthat you eOft6u,:f in (0 the desiFabilit;y of Favil'ling 

trie Vance memorandum and (2) the text of the revision, as proposed 

by DDR&E~ 

Colonel, 

PA~LMAN USAF 

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