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.VIEMORANDUM. FOR: Director, National Reconnaissance Office 

SUBJECT End-Product of Project QUILL 

1. Consideration has been given to the controls which should 

be placed upon the end-product from the currently planned tests 

of Project QUILL over territory within the United States. 

2. After consultation \-vith representatives of your Office and 

of Progranl Director !'A", a decision was reached that for the 

present tilllC the end-product of Project QUILL should be protected 

under the BYEMA1'\T Security Control System. This was based 

upon the following: 

a. Project QUILL is presently only a feasibility 

exper imentation; 

b. Present plans call for the experimental scanning 

to be of U. S. territory only and with no intelligence 

resulting; 

c. If at a later date it is decided to use QUILL 

operationally for intelligence collection, further 

consideration will be given to the control of th{~ 

end-product. 

3. It is requested that you advise Program Director "AI! of 

this decision. 

FOR THE DIRECTOR 

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OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE 

oward J. born 

Director of Security 
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Tlw provisions outlL:1CQ L: the at1:~,-(;llCd plan will be 

L1co:~poratt;)d il').to ~.n overall ?::o.:] oct QUILL FlaIl. which is 

being prepared by tne QLILL Project Officer, SAFSP. You 

will be furnished a copy when co~pleted. 

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QUILL Security Plan 

Copy to: 

S.':.FSP 

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PROJECT QUILL SECUlUTY Pl.A..' 

1. PURPOSE. 

QUILL 

011 6 Novc~~bGr 186-1, a r:.cctill;~ V!~S CO:1VC11Cd ~;"t tlle QUILL 

Pl~occ:3si.n~; I~'a.cility (i~E\.:rp~·.)L) J :·.¥cstOVQ~"" A:?D. ,.~\:~s rneru.orarld'-4Ul 

ou~lines rosults of discussions pcrt~inin~ to secu~i~y 

procedures, processing :::La handling of the QUILL p::oduct. 

Participating in these disc~ssions were the following personnel: 

Lt Col DavL ... ::;. Bracl:O~rn, S~~2SP QUILL 

Projoct Officer 

, ! .. FSPPL 

II. GENERAL. 

QUILL is a feasibility demons~ration of the satellite 

borne radar for ground mapping. In this expe::imcnt, r"~dar data 

signals acquired over the U. S. will 00 reco::cea O~1 photograp:1ic 

film. The initial image on ~he fi:m wi~l consist of doppler 

histories of l'adar returns f::.:o;;t groul:c "::;ar:;e~:s. ~Iereafter, this 

fi1::1 will be identified as "daul. f::'L~'.. i .. rlOv.:'.C;: da.ta filr.l with 

tno same returns rcco:,::,u.:;:d -d1':.':-:;'eol1 will be 

from tile sa.telli to recOV01-Y V():licle (t)RV) 

4-day mission. Zach d~~~ f 

physi~ally recovc~ed 

at the ond of the 

'" to an optical 

corrclato~ located 3X tho ~he ou~put 

of the correla.to::: iii.> .... :lother a :'r::.C;~r map". 

"'he:> ...... 'dar' ,~~y-. ''''1'1' C'''''''' ;¢"''''',c.,." (~d"""'+··'··;'4qhle· 0;"""'0"'5' 011 "·:'e .1.. .... ~......... ..u.«',lJ 1h.. ~."",;,f ......... ""'b ........... J .... "" ..... '-' ......... ""'u -..I",i~ v 4".. ..... 

ground) • During .:he QUILL miss:Lo~l, data filn~s wii,1 ·oe generated 

iro:n 2 sourC0S: (1) New IIz .. mpshire Tra.cking Station (lmS); (2) 

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,~. .",... u·l"'-hr ~ll~~~5 ... ~ r_~.·r!'1'''''~ ~ .. a~~_4~ Ww_w r,;:i·!.,.j;o·n .... _ (V' .. ·"),' U 1,:-:) _ _ l'er'ove·'1"ed '_ '_ S"'·'Ti ~M ____ .. '··:,-;·'··':> ~W f .... 

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All the data the AFSPPL ~~d 

forwarded to the vroduct resulting 

v;i 11 De exposed 

but u:ldevcl01.1cd filra radn.l· l;.al)s~ '1"'11G t:.:~dcvelop0~~ £i1". raC::'l· maps 

\vill be son\~ tv 't,110 "i~Sl??L for I)rOces£ing, d~.;.l)l:..\...~ .. "~ .. in;,, a:ld 

distribution. [ •• "1 exceptio:. to ti:~:;:'s will be P~.ss 710 al1~/ or .jiS. 

P:lSS #8 d::.ta film will bo l)ic~\:ed up at tho N1-:::S by an l.:<'S?PL 

couriel'. processed at AFSP?L, a..'1d couriere~ to tile _. i.iter correlating th.is data film to prodUCe the radal~ 

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map, t:le whicll hils liml ted i1.4-ho~so 

film processing c process this r~dar map for 

iUl:lcdin:te engineering analysis. The purpose of this is "'';0 

evalua.te for ec:.uipment adjus,,;;;;';:l1t, if needed, in the satclli te, 

at the trackinz sta"tions or in ti.1C o~)ticr~l cOl'rclator. If 

Pass #8 does not satisfy this requirement, they will repeat 

this process with Pass if';), whicil will be couriered from the 

VTS. 

Processin:; at t:le AFS?PL \.'ill be done by 'fiG! cleared 

individu.:ls. Tt.· rrelatiol1 r.nd limitec processing 

periormod at tho will be by QUILi. 

indoctrinated personnel. wI a.ffix the classificat :~on " SUCT'ct" on the b.0ad anG tail oi tllO roll of fillU. P ..

control numbel~, prefixed uy ".sCS", will appear on the head end 

of tho film, the 'spool, an.d "Clla fi1:n ca.n. Althoug~l a code 

pullcl1ed at the beginlli11~'~ of the iVill.l roll y/ill identifJl' it as 

related to project QUILL, the actu~l word QUILL will not appear 

thereon. This will provide for greater fle~ibility in the 

event it is subsequently decided that the assistance of TlGI 

only cleared elements are required to "tile poriorJUance evaluation. 

IV. COUllI1mS. 

Couriers 

AFSPPL "Co the 

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_~~ Station to the 

wll~ t~ sU~2lied 

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eal"'-.A.el"'OSp~(;\...~ Co~r~~Ja;J.y·. CD:l.i:,·i.01"S frorll l ..... O 

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Coul:ie::;·s i'l'om Hicl\.ar.~ 2iold to 

l bt:;: sUP:Jlied by the 659-1 tl1 Aerospace 

Test \v:'ngo) T~l:l:; ;-(ill be vi~ cor£~rii{};~cial airlillc" l ... Cornrnand Post 

'vlill be c:stai)lisiled ,1t t;~:.e Sc..,tolli'te Test COl1.tor, SU:lnyvalc, 

for pur:9oSQ ()f ::lOllito:rirl::~ (1:1 cOU.r"iCl" activi t:ies f~Oln. IIicka.Ttl 

to I,Ioffett: ::;"'id the VTS to theA}'S2PL. The couriers will be 

oi ther BYZ;,;A.;."\ or ?K:I cleai~ed indi viduals. Civilian c0 .. ~riers 

will bo QU:~L in~octrinated. 

v. GENERAL SECVRr~Y. 

At tl1e Vandenberg ar;.d 1'0\'1 Harllpshire tracking stations, the 

recorders will be located wi thin the secure _ area arld will 

be monitored by QUILL cleareC: personnel who have filet clearance 

dards through a cor.lpleted BI. T::c iiL'. a'':; the 

QUILL 

will be handled exclusively and in 

area by QUrLi. cleareC: par30~nel. 

administrative matters cond~ct0C: ~~~h 

by the i.FSPPL 1 SAFSP t ::..nd Gooayeargistercd mail. 

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du~a lilm will go to t~Q 

QUILL 

wi th 0.10 copy to be ret ... ined at the 

AFSPPL. 

At the ~1~e o! this meeting, there had been no p=ov~3ions 

mado for distribu~ic:. of the film r~dar maps other th~n the 

copies for the .:::.d a copy for the -fS+ 

::\RO. It vms discussed and agreed to, that any further dis';;ribution of the film radar map by the AFSPPL would have to be approved 

~~d coordinated with the ~ NRO. 

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