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MEMORANDUM FOR TEE RECORD 

SUBJECT: MOL Policy Committee Meeting 

1. The full committee met at 0830, 25 February 1965, to consider 

the results of the MOL Laboratory Source Selection Board. The 

briefing team for this presentation consisted of Brigadier General 

Maxwell, Colonel Hedrick, Colonel Nudenberg, and Colonel Carter. 

Major General Ritland was present with General Schriever, and 

Brigadier General H. Evans represented SAFSL. This part of the 

Committee Meeting lasted one hour. 

2. At the conclusion of this portion of the meeting, Dr. McMillan, 

General Schriever and Lieutenant General Ferguson left, as did the 

Source Selection briefing team. Colonel Carter remained in his 

capacity as Deputy, SAFSL. General Ritland remained, representing 

General Schriever. General Evans briefed the remainder of the 

meeting starting with Administration. 

3. Under Administration, Secretary Zuckert explained that he 

preferred that the procedures for minutes, reports and agreements 

to decisions be the same as those presently used by the DSMG. As 

for alternates to the principal committee members, Secretary 

Zuckert declined to nominate anyone, General McConnell nominated 

the Vice Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary Flax stated that 

either he or Under Secretary McMillan should be present at the 

meeting and Assistant Secretary Marks did not nominate anyone. 

Generals Schriever and Ferguson were not present and could not 

give their opinions. Neither could Dr. McMillan, who was also 

absent. The subject of the schedule for the next meeting was 

discussed. Secretary Zuckert stated he thought it should be 

called only when problems could be identified which required the 

consideration of the full committee. Informational-type meetings 

were not desired. This introduces the problem of providing a 

mechanism for keeping the Committee informed by some means other 

than Committee meetings. 

4. The security briefing was next summarised by General Evans, 

at the request of Secretary Zuckert, without the assistance of 

any visual aids. 

5. General Evans then proceeded to outline to the Committee the 

various actions which were underway to achieve the objectives 

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specified in the DEM memorandum of 4 January 1965. Be cam.. 

plated this part of the briefing with a description of the 

interaction of events visually depicted by the PERT-type diagram 

and a chart summarizing the actions accomplished to date. 

6. Subsequent to the presentation, General Ritland made a 

strong plea to Secretary Zuckert for assistance incur working 

relations with the NASA. H. emphasized that in his opinion NASA 

was not bound by the same security constraints as the DOD and 

might use the Congressional hearings as a forum for public 

debates on the virtues of a NASA epees station to accomplish 

DOD experiments. He stated that General Schriever had been 

encouraging NASA to accomplish DOD research and technology 

objectives in its space flights but that NASA was tending to 

include not only these objectives but satisfaction of DOD 

system and operational objectives as well. He further stated 

that Mr. Grey of NASA, with whom he was having meetings and 

discussions, was forecasting the availability. of 6 SATURN I-L's 

and 6 SATURN C-V's from a prodaotion lime on a non-interference 

basis with the basic APOLLO program. NASA is planning to take 

representatives of the PSAC to visit various of their facilities 

in the next few weeks and would undoubtedly convey to them this 

kind of information. General Ritland stated a need for a paper 

to Mr. Webb, possibly from Mr. McNamara, which would enjoin them 

to the constraints of the security presently imposed upon the 

DOD with respect to the Ma, program. 

7. Secretary.Zuckert agreed and requested a letter be prepared 

for Dr. McMillan to send to Mr. McNamara requesting this. After 

Secretary Zuckert had gone, General Ritland asked General Evans 

to assume the responsibility for this action. 

SIGNED 

D. S. FLOYD 

Major, USAF