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Your proposed draft memorandum of agreement

on the CORONA program has been reviewed. Attached

is a proposed redraft for your consideration. After

you have had an opportunity to review the amendments

I have made, I suggest we get together again.

Sincerely,

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MEMORANDUM OP AGREEMENT

I. This agreement between Director, NRO, sod the Deputy .••

Director at Central Intelligence is based ea policy guidance born the

Deputy Secretary ft Defame and the Director at Central btellipace.

2. b order to focus end strengthen the participation ci the

Central Intelligence Agency and the overall masegemest of the CORONA

program, the following policy decisions are effective at once:

a. A single authoritative program numesr for CORONA. •

is in the national interest and this menage: is General Greer.

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• b. General Greer, the CORONA program nranapr, • •

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SZOreiSell overall tecludcal and opendiomd direction of the program • • •••%%t`

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DNRO Is responsible to the Secretary of Defense as the Executive Agent • • -•:..C4;

for the NRP and to the Secretary of Defense and the Director at Contra *. ••":1';'

Intelligence as set forth in the DOD-CIA Agreement dated 13 larch MU. • I. ;

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c. All Director, Program B activities in CORONA, •J .... ...LW . ..... . .n

.... 18.• including security and contracting, will be consolidated onsodated under Mr. Cioeff vn• 

who in Writ is responsble to General Greer. Mr. Crowley will be . . -.• . ;4'r"-r` t

physically stationed with General Greer at El Segundo, Calitonda. •

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provide leptons engineering

contracts amended as • - " 17 August 1964.

A CORONA Advisory Committee reporting to General

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S. The LMBC (A/P) facility at Palo Alto, its pommel and

its functions, remains a Director, Program B activity and reports to

Mr. Crowley and is responsible to General Greer through him.

General Greer, the CORONA program manager, is

responsible for all technical decisions during pre-lanach, bunchy on-orbit,

procedures and mission responsibilities as utrined o raticalleutia

and recovery phases of mission execution.

30 November 1964 will be followed. R is reaffirmed

Operatics, Center is responsible for hitelUgeoce targeting and mission

programming and that General Greer has the authority for early mission

termination or interruptions only in emergencies in which technical saw

siderations threaten the successful completion of the mission.

Mr. Crowley will provide a centralised point of contact

for the payload contractors, LM$C (A/P), 1:111 (RN), and met on all

matters pertaining to their contracts. This includes contracting,

security, and implementation of technical directives as approved by

General Greer. This relationship will govern both the receipt of contractor proposals for Nyland improvement and the issuance at new

directives.

1. The systems integration contract with LMBC (A/13). will

continue to be a Director, Program B contract under Mr. Crowley as

it is an integral part of the COMMA activity at this facility.

I. Required funds to support Director, Program B contracts

will continue to be included in the Director, Program A portion of the '

NRO budget and funding procedures will continue as presently established

by the NRO Comptroller.

Win 8. Carter Brockway Mclellan

Lieutenant General, USA Director

Deputy Director of Central Intelligence National Reconnaissance Mace

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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT

This Agreement between Director, NRO, and the Deputy

Director of Central Intelligence is based on policy guidance from

the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central -

Intelligence.

In order to focus and strengthen the participation of the

Central Intelligence Agency in the CORONA program, the following

policy decisions are effective at once:

A single authoritative program manager for CORONA

is in the national interest and this manager is General Greer.

The program manager exercises over-all technical

direction of the program and is responsible to the DNRO for

its successful prosecution, who is in turn responsible to

the Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense.

c. All CIA activities in CORONA, including security and

contracting, will come to a focus in CIA's Mr. Crowley who in

turn is responsible to General Greer.

A CORONA payload Advisory Committee reporting to

General Greer will replace the old Payload Configuration Control

Board. The Chairman will be Mr. Crowley.

The AP facility at Palo Alto, its personnel and functions

remains a CIA activity and reports to Mr. Crowley, and is

responsible to General Greer through him.

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The camera programming function performed at the

AP facility will continue to be directly responsive to the Satellite

Operations Center of the NRO for target requirements, as it

always has been.

Mr. Crowley will provide a single point of contact for

the payload contractors, Lockheed, GE and ITEK, on all matters

pertaining to their contracts. This includes contracting, security,

and technical direction, subject to the final approval of General

Greer. This relationship would govern both the receipt of

contractor proposals for payload improvement and the issuance

of new directives.

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The systems integration contract with Lockhe

will continue to be a CIA contract under Mr. Crowley, as s

integral part of the activity at the AP facility.

Required funds to support CIA contracts will be included

in the CIA portion of the NRO budget.

k. Mr. Crowley will be the project manager for the CORONA

Payload reporting directly to General Greer, in parallel with

Colonel Herren, who will be project manager for the remainder

of the system (i.e., THOR, AGENA, LAUNCH, etc. ).

Marshall S. Carter

Lieutenant General, USA.

Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

Brockway McMillan

Director, National ReC01133Aill-•

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