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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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