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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 

~UBJECT: ExCom Meeting -- 2 April 1969 

Present were: Packard, Dubridge, He~ms, Foster, Flax 

and McLucas • 

1. STG - Several members expressed interest in reading the 

black part of the report before it goes forward. 

2. Budget - Question asked by Dubridge -- do we have a budget 

problem -- answered by Packard, no. 

3. - Dubridge still very interested. 

4. Classification - Dubridge wants to know if we shouldn't 

revise guidelines since NASA astronauts now get pictures better 

than O. 1 milliradians. 

5. Dr. Land - suggestion made to invite him to ExCom meeting. 

Agreed to do so. 

John L. Mc-Lucas 

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Issue: What should be the level and extent of OSD participation in the 

activity of the NRP Executive Committee? 

Policy: 

An NRP Executive Committee, consisting of the Deputy 

Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central Intelligence, 

and the Special Assistant to the President for Science and 

Technology, is hereby established to guide and participate 

in the formulation of the NRP through the DNRO. (The 

DNRO will sit with the Executive Committee but will not 

be a voting member.) If the Executive Committee can not 

agree on an issue the Secretary of Defense will be requested 

to sit with the Committee in discussing this issue and will 

arrive at a decision ... ; 

The Executive Committee shall meet on the call of either 

the Deputy Secretary of Defense or the Director of Central 

Intelligence. All meetings will be attended by the DNRO and 

such staff advisors as the Deputy Secretary of Defense or the 

Director of Central Intelligence consider desirable. 

(From August 11, 1965 DOD/CIA 

Agreement for Reorganization of 

the NRP) 

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Practice: Attendance (by "other" than principal and ex officio members) 

at NRP ExCom meetings has fallowed this pattern: 

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By organization represented 

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OSD 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 3 1 

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WH 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 

BOB 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 

NRO 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 3 4 3 3 2 3 5 

In early meetings: 

1. Attendance by "other" than principal and ex officio members 

was strictly limited to 

a. those personal staff advisors to ExCom principals; 

b. those directly participating in the presentation of agenda 

item material. 

2. OSD staff support to the DepSecDef was provided by DDR&E and 

ASD (Comptroller) through 

a. restricted pre-briefing sessions; 

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b. actual attendance as advisors at formal meetings of ExCom. 

Discussion: Staff support from both the ODDR&E and OASD (Comptroller) 

elements is considered essential. However, actual attendance at the 

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ExCom meetings by representatives of these elements should probably 

be limited to the principals, i.e. the DDR&E and the ASD (Comptroller). 

The staffing of agenda items could most effectively be accomplished in 

a pre-briefing for these principal representatives; as could any additional staffing required for particular agenda items by other elements 

of the OSD. 

Attendance at formal pre-briefing sessions for the DepSecDef and 

ExCom meetings should probably be restricted to the DNRO, his 

Comptroller and Staff Director, the DDR&E and the ASD (Comptroller). 

Attendance of all others should be limited to those individuals 

actually participating (briefings, presentations, etc) on ExCom agenda 

items and then only for those specifically designated agenda items. 

Debriefings of ExCom activity and decisions could be accomplished 

through controlled dissemination of the minutes and further discussions 

among the principal (attending) representatives and their staff elements. 

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