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SUBJECT Proposed Expansion of Billets fcr the 

Exploitation and Use of TALENT —

KEYHOLE Materials and Information 

The CSD, JCS, Army, Navy, Air Force, NSA, and CIA 

n-ie,mbeis Eli the. Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance ha-,-e closely 

examined he p:.-cbaems incident the ex:sloitation of thotogzaphy and 

the use of information availabie from Mission 9005 satellite photc.,graray.. euhrnit for approval of the USIB their conclusion. as to the 

meaning of this photography for 7i. S. National Security purposes in the 

attached document. Along with this document are anr_exef, devoted to 

the individual agencies showing the organization units (with their functions) aphid hne d to make use of the photogr.aphy or information deriver, 

thereiro,:n and the number of billeis recuired in that use. -

Z. bilk:: structures planned for thiz puroosre prior to 

receipt of ■.,11.7:7, S i011 9009 :..re judged by the agencies i:iadequate for 

of the maf.erial. The additional billets required by -

agencies s.re st.-.mr-.2.arimi.d =n .A.nnex A with a recapitulation by agency in 

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.12corrirnsndatfon: f.he USIB approve the attache. /I doca--nent annexes. 

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Proposed Expansion of Billets for the 

Exploitation and Use of TALENTKEYHOLE Materials and Information 

1. A Presidential Directive recently issued requires that 

satellite photography must be handled within the TALENT Security 

Control System in:IL:separate compartment known-as ,TALENT-KEYHOLE. 

It further requires that the United States Intelligence Board shall develop -

a broad consensus for determining those functions in the United States 

Government (and personnel within them) which must have access to satellite 

photography for National Security purposes. 

2. The satellite photography from Mission 9009 is in hand 

and is currently being exploited and used within Washington Headquarters' 

intelligence agencies, and The Strategic Air Command, Aero-Space Technical 

Intelligence Center, Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, Army Map 

Service, and Navy Photographic Interpretation Center. The billet structure 

within these organizations was planned on an extremely limited basis in 

advance of the arrival of satellite photography and pending an evaluation of the 

exploitation potential. 

3. For six years the U.S. Intelligence agencies have had extensive 

experience with the larger scale photography from overflight held in the 

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

the material and the information derived therefrom can be put for strategic 

intelligence purposes, emergency war planning, intelligence purposes related 

to the responsibility of theater commanders, research and development 

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

military as well as intelligence operations. 

4. The examination of satellite photography from Mission 9009 

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

TALENT photography. While it has definite limitations for technical intelligence purposes has compared with TALENT) it serves those purposes 

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through comparison with existing TALENT and through the use of collateral 

intelligence. Its vast geographic coverage clearly enhances our ability to 

search for guided missile sites of all sorts, and will permit the identification of installations with which we have become familiar under the TALENT 

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

• will rnateriallly assist in refining the targets for other collection programs 

and improving their potential. 

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S. The USIB has reviewed U.S. needs for National Security - 

purpose's in the Light of the capabilities of the available satellite photography 

and with the purpose and inj;iAction of the Presidential Directive uppermost 

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

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

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

magnitude of the personnel forces to carry these functions at this time. 

Annex A Summary of TALENT-KEYHOLE Billets for All Agencies 

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