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NOTE FOR COLONEL BUMM I SAFSP 

I have attachedJ per your request, a copy of the message we discussed 

most recently on August 1, 1968. 

As I mentioned in my earlier call, the problem in the wire is the 

unclassified revelation of the words IIProject CRESTED ROOSTER. II 

These words constitute the description for Program 390 and are relatable 

only to national and military urgency determinations. Their source is 

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DOD Instruction 3-4410.3 classified SECRET - Special Handling Required -

Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals. This Instruction contains no authorization for the quoting· of any deSignators under lesser security classifications. 

We have been orally admonished by the Air Force Master Urgency List 

(MUL)' people for this breach and have been asked to advise them of the 

corrective action we have taken. HenceJ my earlier reques t. 

Over and 'above this administrative type security question -- we are -.... 

much more concerned abou t the unauthorized and inappropriate use of the 

number -- Program 390 and its code identification CRESTED HOOSTER. 

As you know, these identifiers constitute the DOD MUL List identification 

of the DX industrial priority rating on our government contracts and orders. 

As such, their use is confined to those individuals having written priorities 

and alloca:tions delegations. Moreover, MUL ratings are intended for 

exclusive use, in "expediting materials and equipment in su pport of current 

, pr'oa:uchon, construction and re~earch and developme nt projects II - - hardly 

relatable to an investigation "of the c<;;Luse of excessive contamination in 

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JC-130 aerial recC?very hydraulic systems/' the stated purpose of Mr. Bhkeleyls 

visit to Hawaii (reference the attached wire). 

I am sitting in a very touchy spot here, with regard to a- MUL rating 

for Program 390 effort. We have successfully maintained our position 

on this List under a tremendous pressure by the JCS and the OSD to scrub 

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all but dircctly-as.sociated combat items from the List. This has been 

due, in large measure, to our very prudent application of the privilege. 

References such as the one in the attached wire tend to destroy our· 

credibility. 

With specific reference to the wire, I should point out that there exists 

absolutely no relationship between. USAF precedences and a MUL ra ted 

item •. The absence of this relationship caused usto es tablish, some time 

ago, the deSignator Program 698AJ in the "white" world to support a 

precedence rating of 1-1 throughout the Air Force. This is clearly the 

designator which should have been used by Mr. Blakeley. We would 

. appreciate your reviewing this distinction for program participants. 

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