MEMORANDUM FOR: United States Intelligence Board 

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S UBJ EC T Amendment to "Proposed Expansion 

of Billets for the Exploitation and Use 

of TALENT-KEYHOLE Materials 

and Information." 

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1. On September 14, 1960 the Committee on Overhead 

Reconnaissance submitted to the United States Intelligence Board a 

memorandum with an attachment on Page 3 explaining the needs of the 

U.S. Government for the use of those materials along with Annexes A 

through H defining each participating agency's functional responsibilities 

and need for T-KH-certified personnel. 

2. At that meeting General Erskine stated that he would 

not be able to approve those billets pertaining to the Department of 

Defense until he had secured approval of the Secretary of Defense. 

Also at that meeting the Acting Chairman, General Cabell, urged 

upon the members that further examination of the billet needs be undertaken with severest scrutiny from the point of view of functional need 

eliminating wherever possible those now included by virtue of position 

but who did not have a "must know" rectuirement for access to the 

material. 

3. The Chairman of COMOR has received in one copy a 

memorandum from Col. James Mahon, the JCS/OSD Member of COMOR, 

which states that the Secretary of Defense has now approved revised 

billet schedules of the components of the Department of Defense. Time 

has not permitted a retyping and distribution of that document. However, 

each Department of Defense component has its own paper in this regard 

and the summary of all participating agencies' billet needs are set forth 

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in Annex A it; this document. The effect of the re-examination undertaken subsequent to the USIB meeting of September 20th is an overall 

reduction of between 20% and 25% from the billet needs set forth in the 

reference. In reviewing the attached paper it is suggested that special 

note be taken of paragraph 5. 

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5. Upon USIB approval of the attachment it will be sub:- 

witted to the White House for comment in accordance with the request 

of General Goodpaster. 

6. ' Recommendation: It is recommended that the United 

States Intelligence Board approve the attached paper. 

MES O. REBER 

Chairman 

Committee n Overhead Reconnaissance 

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Proposed Expansion of Billets for the 

Exploitation and Use of TALENTKEYHOLE Materials and Information 

I. A Presidential Directive recently issued requires hat certain 

satellite phot9graphy must be hanciyithiu the T41ENTBecuzM64 

separate known as TALENT-KEYH• LE. 

It further requires that the United States Intelligence Board shall dev op 

a broad consensus for determining those functions in the United States 

Government, (and personnel within them) which must have access to sa elite 

photography for National Security purposes. 

2. The satellite photography from Mission 9009 is in nd 

and is currently being exploited and used within Washington Headquart rs 

intelligence agencies, and The Strategic Air Command, Aero-Space T chnical 

Intelligence Center, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, Arm Map 

Service, and Navy Photographic Interpretation Center. The billet str cture 

within these organizations was planned on an extremely limited basis 

advance of the arrival of satellite photography and pending an evaluati•n of the 

exploitation potential. 

3. For six years the U.S. intelligence agencies have ad extensive 

experience with the larger scale photography from overflight held in t e 

SENSINT and TALENT Systems. New equipment bearing upon the art • f photographic interpretation has clearly expanded the quantity and quality of reformation derived from that photography. We have seen the extensive uses • which 

the material and the information derived therefrom can be put for stra egic 

intelligence purposes, emergency war planning, intelligence purposes i elated 

to the responsibility of theater commanders, research and developme 

requirements of the Department of Defense, and operational purposes •f the 

military as well as intelligence operations. ..t."..-0( An important a pect of this 

material is its relevance to the formulation of foreign policy decisions. 

4. The examination of satellite photography from Mis = on 9009 

reveals that it can serve essentially the same purposes as the earlier 

TALENT photography. While it has definite limitations for technical i telligence purposes ias compared with TALENT), it serves those purpos 

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through comparison with existing TALENT and through the use of coil eral 

intelligence. Its vast geographic coverage clearly enhances our abilit to 

search for guided missile sites of all sorts, and will permit the ident' ication of installations with which we have become familiar under the TA NT 

Program. In addition to the uses for positive information on the USS , it 

will materially assist in refining the targets for other collection prog ams 

and improving their pot ntial. 

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5 • he USIB has reviewed U.S. needs for National Se urity 

purposes in the light of the capabilities of the available satellite photo: raphy 

and with the, purpose and injunction of the Presidential Directive uppe most 

in mind. The USIB considers the planned increase of TALENT-KEY OLE 

billets set forth in the annexes hereto to be necessary and proper in t rms 

of functional use of TALENT-KEYHOLE materials and information a the 

magnitude of the personnel forces to carry these functions at this tim 

Annex A Summary of TALENT-KEYHOLE Billets for All Agencies. 

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