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S LIBJECT : CORC!"•

a amrThis agreement betwec... National

Reconnaissance Office, and the Deputy Director or

Intelligence is based upon policy guidance from the Deputy

Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence.

The CORONA Program is a national endeavor involving

the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency

within the purview of the National Reconnaissance Program.

I. order better to focus and utilize the assets of the CIA

the CORONA Program, and to insure a sound mechanism for overall management, the following decisions are effective at once:

a. A single authoritative program manager for .

C..2.10XA is in the national interest; this minageeisxbe

Director, SAFSP, reporting directly to the DNRO. The Director,

SAFSP, is responsible to the DNRO for the successful prosecution

the CORONA Program, including:

(i) programming, budgeting, procurement and

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(i1.) oytrfail system engineering and technical

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(iii) conducting and directing orbital operations

responsive to orbit selections, launch schedules, and camera

.iacisions by the NRO Satellite Operations Center.

All CIA technical, contractual, and security

activities in the CORONA Program will be consolidated under

a senior CIA representative who will be responsible directly

to and located in the offices of the Director, SAFSP.

Specifically, the senior CIA representative will

be responsible to the Director, SAFSP, for the following:

Performing technical, contractual and

security functions as Assistant to the Director, SAFSP, for .

CORONA payload. In this capacity, the senior CIA representative

is the principal advisor to the Director, SAFSP, on all

technical matters pertaining to the CORONA payload (NOTE:

Payload is defined to include the cameras, film transport

mechanism, and associated items peculiar to the camera sub-

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system).

Serving as the Chairman of a CORONA Payload

Advisory Board reporting to the Director, SAFSP.

(3) Serving as the Payload Member of an overall

CORONA System Advisory Board reporting to the Director, SAFSP.

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Issuing technical direction as approved

by the Director, SAFSP, to CORONA contractors under contractual

administration of the CIA, and assuring contractor compliance

with such directives.

Accomplishing necessary procuiement and

contractual actions as approved by the Director, SAFSP with

appropriate CORONA contractors,•and assuring proper performance

as set forth in the terms of such contracts.

Establishing and maintaining permanent

access lists and granting requests for CORONA-cleared personnel'

to visit those CORONA contractors and facilities that are

=der CIA security cognizance.

Granting CORONA clearances to government

and contractor personnel whom he determines to be clearable

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SAFSP.

(8) Insuring successful support of orbital

operations by personnel Of the Palo Alto facility in direct

response to the NRO Satellite Operations Center (see pare 4)

and to the Director, SAFSP, under the latter's responsibiligra

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as CORONA Program Manager.

d. The senior CIA representative will be responsible

to the Director, CIA, for:

The administration of assigned CORONA

contracts in accordance with applicable statutory requirements.

The supervision .of all CIA personnel stationed

at SAFSP and with CORONA contractors.

(3) The maintenance of proper security prectices

at CORONA contractors and the accomplishment of the functions

set forth in sub-paragraphs 2c(6) and (7) above in accordance

willpillicurity directives.

3. ill provide general systems

engineering services for IIIIIIIglr t CORONA Program in accordance

with enabling clauses to be approved by DNRO and included in

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the discretion of the Director, SAFSP, perform -f4 WITS Irrri

technical advisory services during orbital operations. Interface

with CORONA payload contractors will conform to the provisions

of the preceding paragraphs.

4. The Palo Alto LMSC AP facility will continue to provide

"software" support to the CORONA Program (for example: nominal

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and actual ephemiiis computations; camera program decisions,

etc). In this regard, the AP facility will be directly

responsive to the NRO Satellite Operations Center with regard.

to orbit selections, launch schedules, and camera program

decisions. In addition, the assets available at this facility

will be made available for support of NRO operations analysis

activities.

Deputy Director of Director

Central Intelligence National Reconnaissance Office

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