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MEMORANDUM FOR COLONEL ALLEN 

SUBJECT: Revision of SAFO 116.1 

Problem: To obtain a coordinated update of SAFO 116.1, 

subject =--Tlie Directorate of Special Projects. 

Background: As you know, the existing approved SAF 

Order pertaining to SAFSP is the July 19, 1962 version 

(TAB A) which names Major General Greer as Director. In 

April 1969, General Berg requested the Administrative 

Assistant to update th~ SAFO and to amend it slightly 

(TABB). This was accomplisbedJby the staff of SAFAAA and 

that version (less inked changes) is at TAB C. General 

Berg's partial concurrence in the first re-write is also 

at TAB C. 

At that point,j ~ecame personally involved 

in the staffing action ana oojected to the designation of 

SAFSP as a "Directorate". His position is that SAFSP 

should be designated an "Office" in consonance with standard 

Secretariat terminology. This position was strongly opposed 

by General Martin and somewhat less vehemently by General 

King As a result of this impasse, action on the SAFO 

stalled out for a period of time. 

More recently, Colonel Yost and I discussed the 

issuing of updateq orocurement dele~ation authority to 

General King withl~ __________ Jin SAFAA. We tied in 

the matter of the SAFO at the same time and L__ _______ _ 

made a very positive statement that Dr. McLucas had approved 

the "Office" designator for SAFSP. To test this statement, 

Colonel Yost included the paragraph which appears (redlined) 

in his memorandum of July 28, 1969 to Dr. McLucas (TAB D). 

We also askedc_____, _______ ~to direct Dr. McLucas' attention 

to the paragraph. 

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As you know, Dr. McLucas signed the procurement 

delegation authority without change to the "Office of 

Specia 1 Projects designation. I I reported 

that Dr. McLucas had "no strong feeling one way or the 

other on the wording". His action does serve, however, 

to resolve the question of wording in SAF Order 116.1 

and a third version has been prepared for coordination. 

A proposed memorandum transmitting SAFSS concurrence is 

also included for your signature. These are attached at 

right. 

Conclusion: The revised version at right will 

proviife the changes ren::~•e: jy SAFSS and will be 

acceptable to SAFAAI General King will likely 

not interpose further o Jections to the wording. 

Recommendation: That you sign the proposed memorandum to SAFAA ana-indicate concurrence on the draft 

SAFO 116.1. 

Lt Colonel, USAF 

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