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NRO ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT CHART (1977)

The best way to absorb this chart is to focus on the center

block--the DNRO. The Director of the National Reconnaissance

Office has generally been the Under Secretary of the Air Force.

am the Deputy Director. The NRO is a separate DOD operating

agency. Because the Air Force manages the DOD space activities

it has been natural to use the Under Secretary as a cover

position. He spends approximately 50 percent of his time as

DNRO.

The Secretary of Defense (Dr. Harold Brown) is the executive agent charged with conducting the National Reconnaissance

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3. and 4. The Director of Central Intelligence, working through

the National Foreign Intelligence Board (NFIB), establishes

intelligence collection requirements--in our case that means

establishinsatellite targets. He also establishes and

administer security for the NRP.

Resource allocation decisions for the NRP are made by the

Policy Review Committee of the National Security Council. When

meeting to make NRP resource decisions the PRC(I) is chaired by

the Director of, Central Intelligence (Admiral Turner) with the

Deputy Secretary of Defense (Mr. Charles Duncan), the Deputy

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

(Mr. David Aaron) and the Under Secretary of State for Political

Affairs (Mr. Philip Habib) as members.

The Intelligence Community Staff was created to assist the

DCI in his role as head of the US Intelligence Community. Since

we are a major intelligence collection agency, our interface

with the IC Staff is substantial. The IC Staff also services

the PRC when it is making intelligence resource decisions.

The Office of Management and Budget has in recent years

become more involved with the NRP. While we are not in their

direct management chain they did review our budget for this past

fiscal year.

The Special Coordination Committee has subsumed the tasks

previously accomplished by the Operations Advisory Group and

before that, the 40 Committee. It is an NSC Committee, comprised of the President's National Security Advisor, the

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 and the Chairman of

the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The SCC reviews our flight

schedule each month and has the power to hold or suspend a

launch should world political conditions dictate.

The Intelligence Oversight Board was createC by

President Ford to insure that US intelligence agencies did not

violate the rights of American citizens. Its members are

Mx. Leo Cherne, Stephen Ailes, and Robert D. Murphy (Chairman).

We file quarterly reports of our activities with the 'OB.

The Attorney General is the final authority on issues of

propriety in intelligence collection. As such, requirements

which deviate from the norm could possibly be passed through

the IOB to the Attorney General for approval.

Also as part of President Ford's efforts to insure that

intelligence activities did not abuse their charters, the

position of DOD Inspector General for Intelligence was created.

We report our activities to the IG quarterly and respond to his

periodic inspection or requests.

The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has

provided oversight to the NRO since our very inception. They

have guided our organizational development and were responsible

for recommending many of the tenets of our management style.

This group of high level civilian advisors monitor NRO

activities and generally keeps the President apprised of the

future trends in satellite collection needs.

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serve the DNRO. * Brigadier General Shields is the Director of

that staff. Again using the Air Force for a cover the staff

has the unclassified title of Office of Space Systems.

15., 16., and 17. The NRO is divided into three programs. Each

Program Director reports directly to the DNRO. Program A is

under the cover of Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects

and is located in Los Angeles. The Director of Program B is

also the CIA's Deputy Director for Science and Technology, and

the Director of Program C is covered with the title Director of

Navy Space Activities.

18. Congressional overview of the NRP has increased significantly over the past three years. With the establishment of the

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1976, the NRP is now

subject to review by five Congressional committees. Other

committees in space related activities (i.e., Senate Subcommittee on

Science, Technology and Space) also request presentations on the

program.

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