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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 20330
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY ________________________________________________________________
13 November 1978
Mr._____________________
________________________
________________________
Dear Mr.________________:
This is in response to your letter of October
21, 1978
requesting information on MOONDUST AND BLUEFLY.
BLUEFLY was
a project for the acquisition of airlift
for a quick reaction capability.
It was determined that
the need did not exist and the project was
discontinued
several years ago.
MOONDUST is a program in which the Air
Force provides
technical assistance in determining the origin of space
debris, U.S. or foreign.
These programs are under the purview of Air
Force Systems
Command, Andrews AFB, MD, 20034. Please write to the
Director
of Information there, if you desire additional data. He
may be
able to help.
Sincerely,
ALBERT W. SCHUMANN
Colonel, USAF
Deputy Chief
Community Reations Division
Office of Information
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 20330
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
20 AUG 1979 ________________________________________________________________ Mr._____________________
________________________
________________________
Dear Mr.________________:
This letter is in reference to your appeal
from the
decision of the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
partially
denying your request for a copy of a Biographical
Sketch, dated 1 January
1957; two AFCIN memoranda, dated 11
February 1958 and 26 December (no year
indicated); the
AFCIN-1E-0 letter, dated 3 November 1961; the AFOIN-X(SG)
memo, dated 29 April 2952; and the AFOIN-SSG letter.
The Office of
the Secretary of the Air Force has
considered your appeal, and I have
determined your appeal
should be granted in part and denied in part.
The Biographical Sketch, dated 1 January 1957, is exempt
from mandatroy
disclosure under the Freedom of Information
Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(6). The
disclosure of this information
would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion
of personal
privacy. Release of this type of information is also
prohibited
by paragraph 27b, Air Force Regulation 12-35 (32
CFR 806b).
The two
AFCIN memoranda, dated 11 February 1958 and 26
December (no year indicated)
are intra-agency memoranda con-
taining opinions and suggestions and are exempt
from manda-
tory disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 5
U.S.C.
552(b)(5). These memoranda are withheld in an effort
to promote the free and
frank interchange of ideas, opinions
and recommendations among Air Force
personnel. The infor-
mation withheld is primarily opinion which would not
be
routinely available through the discovery process.
Portions of the
AFCIN-1E-0 letter, dated 3 November 1961
are releasable; however, the
remaining portions are still
exempt from mandatory release under the Freedom
of Informa-
tion Act 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(1). This information and the
AFOIN-
X(SG) memos are currently classified under Executive
Order 12065, Section
1-301 (a) and (c), as implemented by
Department of Defense regulation
5200.1-R, paragraphs 2-301
(C) (3) and (5). The continuing protection of this
informa-
tion is essential to the national security because it reveals
intelligence sources and methods. The release of this infor-
mation could
reasonably be expected to cause identifiable
damage to the national
security. The AFOIN-SSG letter has
been declassified and is released.
This letter constitutes the final Air Force action on
your appeal. Under
the Freedom of Information Act 5 U.S.C.
552, provision exists for judicial
review of this
determination.
Sincerely,
ROBERT W. CRITTENDEN
Deputy Administrative Assistant
1
Attachment
Releasable Material
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
20330-5025
________________________________________________________________
11 APR 1986 Mr.______________________
_________________________
_________________________
Dear Mr._________________
This responds to your 25 March 1986 Freedom of
Information request.
Attached is the only document in the Air Force
Intelligence Office
(AF/IN) relative to your request.
AF/IN has no
knowledge of "ICGL#4" dated 25 April 1961, pertaining
to Project Moon Dust.
No "AFCIN SOP for Blue Fly Operations,
February 1960" was located. The
programs (UFO, Blue Fly, Moon
Dust) no longer exist and records were
destroyed.
There is no Air Force Intelligence unit responsible for
collections
under these projects since the projects are no longer
active.
Fees are waived in this instance.
Sincerely
ANNE W. TURNER
1 Atch
HQ USAF Freedom of
AF/IN Document
Information Manager
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
REPLY TO
ATTN OF: APCIN-1E-0/Colonel Betz
SUBJECT: (U) AFCIN
Intelligence Team Personnel 3 NOV 1961
TO: APCIN-1E
This draft proposal was not
APCIN-1 approved
and was not for -
IN TURN ___________ (word not clear) for
action.
N.M.
Rosner
PROBLEM: NORMAN M.
ROSNER
Lt. Colonel,
USAF
1. (U) To provide qualified personnel for APCIR
intelligence
teams.
FACTORS BEARING ON THE
PROBLEM:
2.
c. In addition to their
staff duty assignments, intelligence
team personnel have peacetime
duty functions in support of such
Air Force projects as Moondust,
Bluefly, and UFO, and other
AFCIN directed quick reaction projects
which require
intelligence team operational capabilities (see
Definitions).
d. Normal personnel attrition, through PCS,
discharge,
retirement, etc., has reduced the number of
intelligence team
qualified personnel below a minimum
requirement, and programmed
personnel losses within the next ten
months will halve the
current manning.
e.
Personnel actions within the authority of AFFMP, AFCIN
and AFCIN-1E
can be taken to reverse the trend toward
diminishment of the
intelligence team capability.
3.
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4. ___ Criteria
a. Intelligence team personnel can perfomr
effectively only with
an adequate background of training and experience.
Inadequately
qualified personnel in such assignment would be a liability
rather
than an asset to successful accomplishment of the mission.
5.
___ Definitions.
a. Linguist: Personnel who can develop intelligence
information
through interrogation and translation from Russion and/or Bloc
country
languages to English.
b. Tech Man: Personnel qualified to
develop intelligence infor-
mation through field examination and analysis of
foreign material,
with emphasis on the Markings Program and technical
photography.
c. Ops Man: Intelligence team chief. Qualified to direct
intel-
ligence teams in gaining access to target, in exploitation of enemy
personnel and material, and in use of field communications equipment
for
rapid reporting of intelligence information.
d. Airborne Personnel:
Military trained and rated parachutists.
e. Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFO): Headquarters USAF has
established a program for investigation
of reliably reported unidenti-
fied flying objects within the United States.
AFR 200-2 delineates
1127th collection responsibilities.
f. Blue
Fly: Operation Blue Fly has been established to facilitate
expeditious
delivery to FTD of Moon Dust or other items of great tech-
nical intelligence
interest. AFCIN SOP for Blue Fly operations,
February 1960, provides for
1127th participation.
g. Moon Dust: As a specialized aspect of its
over-all material
exploitation program, Headquarters USAF has established
Project Moon
Dust to locate, recover and deliver descended foreign space
vehicles.
ICGL #4, 25 April 1961, delineates collection responsibilities.
DISCUSSION:
6. ___
a. Headquarters USAF (AFCIN) maintains
intelligence teams as a
function of AFCIN-1E (1127th USAF Field Activities
Group). Personnel
comprising such teams have normal AFCIN-1E staff duties,
and their
maintenance of qualification for intelligence team employment is
in
addition to their normal staff duties. For example, the Chief of
AFCIN-1E-OD, the Domestic Operations Section, additionally participates
in
approximately 18 hours of training per month for intelligence team
employment.
Such training includes physical training, classroom combat
intelligence
training, airborne operations, field problems, etc.
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b. Intelligence teams are comprised of three men each, to include
a
linguist, a tech man, and an ops man. All are airborne qualified.
Cross-
training is provided each team member in the skills of the other
team members
to assure a team functional capability despite casualties
which may be incurred
in employment.
c. Peacetime employment of AFCIN intelligence team
capability is
provided for in UFO investigation (AFR 200-2) and in support of
Air
Force Systems Command (AFSC) Foreign Technology Division (FTD)
Projects
Moon Dust and Blue Fly. These three peacetime projects all
involve a
potential for employment of qualified field intelligence personnel
on
a quick reaction basis to recover or perform field exploitation of
unidentified flying objects, or known Soviet/Bloc aerospace vehicles,
weapons
systems, and/or residual componants of such equipment. The
intelligence
team capability to gain rapid access, regardless of
location, to recover or
perform field exploitation, to communicate and
provide intelligence reports is
the only such collection capability
available to AFCIN, and is vitally
necessary in view of current intelli-
gence gaps concerning Soviet/Bloc
technological capabilites.
d. Wartime employment of AFCIN intelligence
team capability is
currently primarily geared to the CONAD/NORAD air defense
mission
(Atch I). The intelligence team concept was originally developed
within the Air Defense Command (ADC). The ADC Director of Intelligence
was
charged in 1953 with organizing the 4602d Air Intelligence Service
Squadron
(AISS), with a wartime mission of exploiting downed enemy
"people, paper,
and hardware" for intelligence information that would
contribute to the air
defense of the continental US, and ADC was
allocated manpower for this
function (ADC Regulation 24-4, 3 Jan 53,
Organization and Mission of the
4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron).
e. As an economy move, the
201 spaces of the 4602d AISS were trans-
ferred to AFCIN in July 1957 (Hq
Comd General Order 46, dtd 8 Jul 57),
to provide manning for peacetime AFCIN
functions, but with the contin-
gency that AFCIN would continue to maintain a
capability to support
CONAD/NORAD in the wartime people, paper, and hardware
mission (Atchs
2 and 3). From the 194 spaces that AFCIN allocated to the
1006th AISS,
activated by Hq Comd General Order #49, 2 Jul 57, this
capability was
provided for (Dept of AF ltr, dtd 16 Jul 59, subj: Mission of
the 1006th
AISS), and the capability has been maintained to the present
time,
through the redesignation of the 1006th to the 1127th USAF Field
Activities Group (AFCIN Policy Ltr 205-13, 13 April 1960).
f. The
maintenance of the intelligence team capability over the
four year period
since inactivation of the 4602d AISS has been possible
largely because
members of the original highly select and trained 4602d
personnel remained
with the organization during its subsequent designa-
tions.
_______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
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______________________ In addition, a minimum number of new
personnel assigned
to the organization and fortuitously possessing basic
requisite skills, were
further trained and integrated into the intelli-
gence team program as
additional duty.
g. Manning of the intelligence teams from these
sources has now
reached the point of diminishing returns. Only 21 qualified
intelligence
team personnel are now assigned, and of these approximately half
are
scheduled for PCS departure from the organization during the next 12
months. There is no forecast input of previously qualified personnel.
There
are currently five basically qualified volunteers for further
training and
assignment to intelligence team additional duty.
h. In an effort to
augment the diminishing capability, USAF
personnel assigned to organizations
other than the 1127th within the
Washington area who have airborne/
intelligence team qualification, and/or
who are former members of this
organization's intelligence teams, and
who have been approved by their
organization of assignment and Hq USAF
(AFCIN) for wartime assignment to the
1127th, have been issued appro-
priate orders, and participate in the
peacetime training program for
wartime employment. Two such personnel are
attached, with no known
available additional personnel.
i. The
most serious immediate and forecast intelligence team
shortage is in
Linguists. There are now only five Russion Linguists
assigned or attached,
and of these only two are of native fluency, with
the other three of
language school capability. Four of the five,
including the two of native
fluency, are forecast for PCS by November
1962. Only one gain, fortunately of
native fluency, is scheduled for
airborne training for intelligence team
qualification and assignment.
Two additional Russian Linguists are forecast
for assignment to the
1127th, but neither are yet intelligence team
qualified or are known
to be volunteers for intelligence team assignment.
All intelligence
team personnel are volunteers.
j.
______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
Eight
personnel in these categories are forecast for PCS loss within the
next
twelve months, with an input forecast of five personnel, four of
whom are
presently assigned, basically qualified volunteers for airborne
training,
and one of whom is a forecast gain to the 1127th.
k. A sizeable number
of qualified Linguists are presently assigned
to
________________________________________________________________
_______ ZI
bases. Many of the Linguists are either airborne rated and/
or have had
intelligence team assignments to this organization in its
present or former
designations. Reassignment of these individuals to
AFCIN-1E upon completion
of their present tours is a logical method by
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which the current and forecast shortage could be met. A problem that
would be
encountered in implementing such assignment is the lack of
1127th Linguist
AFSC manpower vacancies. The 1127th has only twelve
Linguist AFSC manpower
spaces allocated and seven of these spaces are
filled with either non-Russian/
Bloc country Linguists or with non-
intelligence team qualified
Linguists.
1. Possible solutions to the current and forecast shortage
are:
(1) Basically qualified personnel currently assigned to
AFCIN-1E
who volunteer for further training, to include airborne training,
and
assignment to intelligence teams, should be given such training and
assignment as additional duty to normal staff duty employment.
(2)
Assignment to the 1127th of intelligence team qualified
Linguists returning
from overseas or completing other ZI assignments
on an authorized overage
basis. Such authorized overages were previously
assigned to the organization
and provided not only for the intelligence
team capability, but for
fruitful peacetime ZI employment of Linguists.
Ten such personnel could be
fully and effectively utilized during peace-
time in duties directly in or
closely allied to their AFSC's, with the
intelligence team capability being an
additional duty.
(3) Qualified intelligence team personnel now
assigned to the
1127th could be retained beyond their normal duty tours until a
simi-
larly qualified replacement is forecast or assigned.
e. A
standard AFPMP and AFCIN-P policy should be the identification
to AFCIN-1E
of previously qualified intelligence team personnel fore-
cast for return to
the ZI form overs3eas assignments for assignment
against AFCIN-1E forecast
personnel vacancies. Latitude may be required
and should be authorized in
the assignment of such personnel be grade
and AFSC. For example, if a 204XX
vacancy is forecast withing AFCIN-1E
and an intelligence team qualified
203XX is forecast available, and the
203XX is determined able to perform
the staff duties required, either
from personal knowledge of the individual's
capabilities, or by means
of an exchange of correspondence between the losing
command and AFCIN-1E,
authorization for asignment of the 203XX against the
204XX vacancy
should be granted. It is generally true that 203's with AISS
background
are normally able to perform 204 duties effectively with a
minimum of
experience on the job. To a lesser degree, and on a selective
basis,
this is also true of 203's being able to perform intelligence
organiza-
tion 702 duties.
n. Discussion to this point has
covered the intelligence team
development, composition, current peacetime and
wartime missions, and
personnel problems. To further establish the value of
the unique
Air Force capability represented by the intelligence teams, their
future potential for employment should be considered.
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CONCLUSION:
7. __ There is a valid current and continuing need for the
AFCIN
intelligence team capability for peacetime and wartime employment.
Actions necessary to maintain the capability in "cadre" strength
should be
immediately implemented, and actions to expand the capability
should be
implemented on a sound basis of personnel acquisition,
training, equipping,
and employment.
ACTION RECOMMENDED:
8. ___
a. Basically
qualified personnel currently assigned to AFCIN-1E
who volunteer for further
training, to include airborne training, and
assignment to intelligence teams,
should be given such training and
assignment as additional duty to normal
staff duty employment. Attach-
ment 4 is a current request for airborne
training quotas for five
qualified volunteers.
b. AFCIN-1E should
prepare, and submit through appropriate channels,
individual justifications
for the following:
(l) Authorized overage assignment on a selective
basis of an
initial ten intelligence team qualified Linguists returning to the
ZI
from overseas assignment, with a later additional supplement in the
event of AFCIN authorized expansion of cadre strength of the intelligence
team capability.
(2) Detention beyond normal duty tours of
qualified intelligence
team personnel now assigned to the 1127th until
similarly qualified
replacements are forecast or assigned.
(3)
Request for establishment of an AFPMP and AFCIN-P practice
to identify to
AFCIN-1E previously qualified intelligence team personnel
forecast for
return to the ZI from overseas assignments. Latitude should
be requested by
AFCIN-1E in assignment of such personnel against actual
or forecast
vacancies in AFSC and grade spaces in variance with those
possessed by the
returnees if it is established that returnees have non-
AFSC skills which
can be effectively utilized in the vacant spaces.
(4) Ninety-day
TDY of AFCIN intelligence team to South Viet Nam
for employment in Viet Nam/
Laos against USAF intelligence requirements.
Experience gained in
establishing logistical support and operational
employment will be invaluable
in developing further plans for intelligence
team utilization. The team
should be attached to the Air Attache, Viet
Nam, and under his operational
control for the period of TYD.
4
Atch
1. Excerpt, 1127 COP 1-60, re
NORAD
Supper
2. Cy 1tr, Gen Taylor, 23 Jan 57
3. Cy 1tr, Gen Lewis, 4 Mar 57
4. Req for Airborne Tng Quotas
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS AIR
FORCE OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
BOLLING AIR
FORCE BASE, DC 20332-6001
6 JAN 1986 Mr________________
________________
Dear Mr.__________
This is in
response to your Freedom of Information Act requests of 19 and
21 December
1985.
A search of the Defense Central Index of Investigations (DCII),
using the
data furnished in your letter, has disclosed that AFOSI is not
maintaining
any information identifiable with "PROJECT SNOWBIRD,PROJECT
SIGMA,PROJECT
AQUARIUS" or "MJ TWELVE". The DCII is a consolidated listing of
files held
by the Department of Defense.
The releasable portions of AFOSI
Headquarters (HQ) Collections Requirement
(CR) 44A, dated 23 Norember 1983, is
attached. HQ CR 44 was superseded by
HQ CR 44A. Notations were inserted in
the attached document wherever a
deletion was made. The notations are
explained as follows:
a. "b1" pertains to information which is currently
and properly
classified under criteria established by Executive Order and is
authorized
to remain classified in the interest of national security or
foreign
policy. The authority for this exemption may be found in the United
States
Code, Title 5, Section 552(b)(1) and the Air Force Regulation 12-30,
paragraph 10a.
b. "b5" pertains to information which concerns inter - or
intra-agency
memoranda exchanged between components of this headquarters or
between
components of this headquarters and other Federal agencies. The
authority
for this exemption may be found in the United States Code,Title 5,
Section
552(b)(5) and Air Force Regulation 12-30, paragraph 10e.
Should
you decide that an appeal to this decision is necessary, you must
write to
the Secretary of the Air Force within 45 days from the date of
this letter.
Include in the appeal your reasons for reconsideration and
attach a copy of
this letter. Address your letter as follows:
Secretary of the
Air Force
Thru: HQ AFOSI/DADF
Bolling AFB, DC
20332-6001
HQ AFOSI is not maintaining the document described in your 21
December
1985 request as, "a document from AFOSI/IVOE dated 171130Z Nov
80."
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The
third item of your 21 December 1985 letter pertained to abbreviations,
which
are explained as follows:
a. "HQ IVOE: "HQ" is an abbreviation for
"Headquarters" and when it
appears on documents originated by AFOSI, denotes
Headquarters AFOSI at
Bolling AFB, DC. The "IVOE" is an AFOSI office symbol
for the "Security
Operations Division" of the Directorate of
Counterintelligence, HQ AFOSI.
b. "HQ IVOS": "HQ is explained above.
"IVOS" is an AFOSI office
symbol for the "Security Operations Division" of
the Directorate of
Counterintelligence, HQ AFOSI.
c. "(S/WINTEL)":
This acronym is a warning lable used to identify
intelligence sources and
methods. This notice is applied to documentd
which contain such
information.
d. "(S/WINTEL/FSA)": "S/WINTEL" is explained above.
The term "FSA"
is unknown to AFOSI.
Sincerely,
________________________
CECIL W. FRY, SA 1
Atch
Chief, Information Rrlease Division CY of HQ CR 44A,
Directorate of Administration Less Exemptions
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