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MORI DocID: 1451843

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24 May 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Chief, [REDACTED]

SUBJECT: Activities of Possible Interest to the
Director

1. A few years ago the [REDACTED] Branch was asked to
support a test program and feasibility study being conducted
by DD/S&T/ORD.

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project concluded, the [REDACTED] Branch was given permission
by DD/S&T/ORD to retain the camera and TV image transmission
system for further experimentation.

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2. In early June 1972 [REDACTED] had been the Project Officer, DD/S&T/ORD, who
phoned the [REDACTED] Branch. He stated that the U.S.
Secret Service had a requirement for this TV camera and data
link system. It was our understanding that the camera would
be carried in a helicopter and would be used for crowd sur-
veillance during the Democratic and Republican Conventions
at Miami Beach, Florida. Mr [REDACTED] asked that we make the
equipment available for the period desired by the Secret
Service and indicated that the equipment would be returned to
us when no longer needed. On 19 June 1972, Mr. Michael T.
Casey, accompanied by Mr. [REDACTED], visited [REDACTED] to pick up the
equipment. Mr. Casey of the Secret Service was not made
witting of the fact that [REDACTED] is an Agency facility.

3. On 13 November 1972, the equipment, as a result of
a phone call from [REDACTED] was picked up at Secret Service
Headquarters by [REDACTED]. A few of the system's

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