DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 

DIRECTORATE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS (OSAF) 

AF UNIT POST OFFICE. LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA 

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23 August 1967 

REPLY TO 

ATTN OF: SP-1 

SUBJECT: MOL Management Directive 

TO: Vice Director, MOL Program (Gen Stewart) 

1. As requested by your 8 August memorandum on the above subject, 

(BYE 21234-67) I have reviewed the proposed directive. On balance, 

it is a good directive, and I have only a few comments for improvement, 

as follows: 

a. Reference last paragraph, page 9. The second sentence is 

incorrect, according to my understanding, and inadequate in any event. 

The Deputy Commander, SAMSO, for MOL cannot accomplish the 

functions intended for this command title through the Deputy Commander 

for Space, SAMSO, since major SAMSO elements of concern to MOL are 

not under the Deputy Commander for Space. For example, both the 

Satellite Control Facility and the 6595th Wing at Vandenberg are assigned 

directly to the Commander, SAMSO (since they serve both the space and 

ballistic activities of SAMSO). 

b. Reference subparagraph J, top of page 10. The paragraph is 

correct, except in inference that the SAFSP "double hat" arrangement 

is the same as described for the Deputy Director, MOL, in the last 

paragraph on page 9, i. e. , " the Director, SAFSP, who is also 

a Deputy Commander, SAMSO " If the intent of the directive was 

to make the "double hat" arrangement for the Deputy Director, MOL the 

same as the "double hat" arrangement for the Director of Special Projects, 

then I must clarify the latter. As Deputy Commander for Satellite 

Programs, SAMSO, I am responsible directly, and only, to the Commander, 

SAMSO, in accordance with very explicit instructions from both Dr. Flax 

and Dr. Brown that the SAMSO establishment should entail no change to 

the organizational and command arrangements previously established for 

the Director of Special Projects, nor impose any additional echelons in 

this structure. 

c. Reference the first sentence at top of page 11. The reference to 

a "balanced" program between "black" and "white" efforts is incorrect 

and should be changed (i. e. , to "a program involving "black" and "white" 

efforts.) There is no such thing as a "balance" between the two; the 

things or activities which would reveal the mission must be "black;" all 

else is "white," regardless of the relative amount. These divisions are 

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dictated by the security requirements for the "black" effort, not by 

any kind of "balance" between the two areas. 

d. Reference second paragraph under the subpara B, page 12. 

"CER-VIT" should be deleted from the second sentence as an example, 

and the word "normally" inserted after "Director, MOL" in the last 

sentence. With only five flights in the program, it may well be in the 

best interest of the government for SAFSP to simply provide the 

CER-VIT blanks GFE to the MOL program. 

e. Reference first sentence at top of page 31. SAFSP cannot cite 

funds made available to the Deputy Director, MOL unless these funds 

are "black" funds. It is not obvious that all applicable contracts in 

question Will be "black, " as some of our advanced technology, while 

guided on the baSis of "black" information, is actually carried out on 

"white" contracts. In these cases, the fund separation must be 

accomplished in Washington and the funds included in other similar 

SAFSP funding. 

JOHN L. MARTIN, 3R 

Brigadier General, USAF 

Director 

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