Document #: 41
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-30-1986
Subject: 1979 BLUEFLY & MOONDUST
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT DOCUMENT FILES
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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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Document #: 42
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-30-1986
Subject: 1986 BLUEFLY & MOONDUST
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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
RECEIVED 16 APR 1986
86-370
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Document #: 43
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 10-15-1986
Subject: 1961 MOONDUST PAGE 1
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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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Date Sent: 10-15-1986
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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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