TRIP REPORT OF (Sanitized) TO THE TACTICAL AIR RECONNAISSANCE COMMAND (TARC), SHAW AFB, SOUTH CAROLINA, 18-19 JULY 1968

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 22, 1968
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 25X1A9A
22 July 1968
SUBJECT: Trip Report of to the Tactical
Air Reconnaissance omman ,Shaw AFB,
South Carolina, 18-19 July 1968
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1.
Briefing in discussion with p
ersonnel at S
haw was I feel
fruitful
and permitted the DIA officer
present,
,
the opp
ortunity to observe the high de
gree of in r
s a irs an ~~~
~~
's the Director
of Intelligenc
e and was kind enough
to invit
e us to Shaw. He and about ten
others uncle
ared for "I" heard
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the briefing, and enough interest was generated that
asked if I would mind repeating the briefing to the T RC Commander,
General Waltz. This I did, and General Waltz was very interested and
made it clear that he wanted to have an early opportunity to evaluate the
equipment since Shaw also evaluates films and photographic equipment,
particularly processin e ui ment to be employed by tactical reconnaissance
units. accompanied me on this trip, and it
was going ahead with some of his own money to build the first Trispin and
Pentaspin Machines. In fact, the first Trispin is to be delivered to him
was not until after I had given both briefings that I learned that
for testing in August and the first Pentaspin in late September of this year.
Shaw is a primary consumer already of Bimat material, and admitted they
would be most eager to employ the Spin System as soon as possible.
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of DIA. said that he would do everything that he could to
encourage NRO to approve minimum funds at least for an unsheltered unit
and once the system was proven, we should have no trouble getting a unit
sheltered for our own use.
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2. During informal discussions which lasted several hours after
the briefings, I learned that one of the assignments TARC has recently
been workin on is to develop an RF-4C reconnaissance capability for
The Project Officer at TARC is Major Fran Engles, and
e contact in the Pentagon is Colonel Dick Kane at AFNICAD, It might
be wise to eventually coordinate our proposal with Colonel Kane, only
after it ap ears that some positive action w' 11
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eventually be taken in
~~ providing with the U-2 capability. The processing and P.I.
programs if we have answers to our questions at an early date. yvj ~`"""11
xecutive Officer
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Office of Special Activities
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