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THE NRO STAFF January 24, 1969 

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MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL BERG 

SUBJECT: Range Ship Support 

You will recall that in September 1968 General Martin expressed 

concern about the current and projected use of the Surface Recovery 

Units, Sunnyvale and Longview. (Tab A) As a consequence of your 

discussions with DDR&E, the ships were retained and funded in the 

AFSCF Program Element. 

Subsequently, we requested General King to sign a letter to 

AFWTR giving SAFSP more direct control of the scheduling, operation and maintenance of the SR Us. General King was reluctant to 

sign the letter, and it was then submitted to General Cooper and 

later General Huston. It was our understanding that General Huston 

would not direct AFWTR to respond in the manner we requested. 

On January 22, I called~-------~(General Huston's 

deputy} to determine if the traffic would bear a personal visit to 

General Huston on the subject of range ships. I I 

stated that General Huston had personally rewritten our letter and 

signed it out on December 9. (Tab B) 

I called ~--------~to determine if they considered 

General Huston's letter to be a satisfactory response to their stated 

concerns. After discussing it with General Martin, I 

called and stated that SAFSP considered the problem~s-o~l~v_e_d~t-0-t~h-e-1~.r--~ 

satisfaction. 

No further action is indicated. 

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l. Recently, some concern has been expressed regarding the 

availability of the USNS Sunnyvale and Longview to support 11mrface 

recovery activities. These discussions indicated a dbsatisfac:tion 

with the degree oi support being provided to the recovery activities 

since that is the primary mbsion of these ships. 

2. Ae you know. theso ships have supported the programs undc:r the 

ma11agement 0£ the Director of Special Projects, OSAF (SAFSP). 

Although there had been some question concerning the deeirability of 

retaining these ships in 1.HJ:tvkef DDR&:E and SAFRD have directed 

their retention in an active status with the AFSCF having funding 

responsibility. Tho operation and control will continue to be an 

, AFWTR responsibility, but primary mission responsibility will 

· continue to be support of SAFSP programs. It is imperative that 

) SAFSP be supported to the maximum in accordance with their 

. , requirements. These ehipe ahould not be used for othe:r general 

range purpo1uu, except on a non•intel"ference ba1i1 with SAFSP 

p:rograms. 

JrOR THE COMMANDER 

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· . Major General, USA~ 

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