FOLLOW-UP ITEMS FROM TRIP TO WIESBADEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00011A001000190119-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 119
• Publication Date: July 20, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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20 July 1956
M IKOEEANDUM FM c Project Director of Operations
SUBJI C'1 : Follow-up Items from Trip to Wiesbaden
1. I discussed exposed film moment with :yen. Light and
Col. viarthens. Osn. Light suggested that we use the MM Blueplate
special which rum from Wiesbaden to Washington to return all exposed
film. This would include both German and Adana take. His reasons for
this are: (a) He has control of that run and will am to it that we
have A-l priority even if we have up to a ton of exposed fila; (b) this
run has better service in case of engine trouble or other difficulties
and is given priority in gs-tting through on schedule; (c) it is mob
more comfortable for the courier to ride and be would have better control
of the film on this airplane since it is a YIP type of movement; (d) the
film will land at Washington which is mck more convenient for us to
tranship to 1CC and more convenient for Security personnel. If you
have arpr objections regarding changing to the Blueplate will you please
discuss then with me as I see no reason not to use this service.
2. In furtherance of our policy to let detachments know more o4
our thinking and to help them in getting ready for an operational
mission, I suggest that when we se we give then the tents- 25X1
tive route we are considering. I realise that when we send 25X1
the flight plan may be entirely different, however 25X1
desirous of knowing our thinking right from the first. The weather
people were also interested in getting where we propose to go in
In this way they could follow our thinking weather-wise 25X1
am an with their local evaluation. This will in no way mean
that they will try to second guess us. It is merely to keep then in
the fa:dl of knowledge.
3. In our flight plan dispatch we show turning points as an
infinite point. It is obvious that in order to photograph a point the
plane must be level and that after photographing and waking a turn with
the ap;ropriate radios the flight plan might be different from the
one you draw by a matter of L or 5 miles. In fact, to cover some of tla
targets they would have to make a clover leaf and return to photograph
the target as well, as the assigned track. The difference in our figuring
and theirs can result from this difference in pencil plotting anu actually
flying the course. They suggest that you indicate in your dispatch
the actual target that you want photographed at a turning point and they
can arrange to fly over that part with the airplane level and then turn
afterwards to insure we get such a target at a turning point. I have
discussed with some of your people this problem and I believe you are
aware of it.
R'd
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h? and his waatbsr people have ob stsd t* the
eessssaily ting Asa 1 to the 4'b~ r+spsrt *$40W t7, sy
such information is superfluous and has been furnished in KBJA*i$..1.
I want you to loot into this and if this is the case, I rseosnmad
we cancel one or the other of these require omens.
onjunation With this ArAW 1, I believe we NSW X*
people to submit the weather picture after flown by
six digits. The first two digits give the weitber picture from the
vertical " as I understand it the last four digits give the oblique
weather out to distance. They claim that giving these last four
digits is almost an impossibility and requires a great deal of work
with overlays in order to determine at those distances what consti-
tutes two-tenths coverage. I will discuss this with you further at
your convenience.
6. As you recall during last active operations there was some
g in categorizing the weather along our flight path.
Detachment A also realized it was difficult to let us know how the
weather varied along the flight path, so is the future in the
a V between numbers an the route plot
will ca weather variation,, i.e.,, 1-V-3 sea= clouds increase
from oatsgory 1 to category 3 along this ssotioa, or 3-V-1 would indi-
cate that cloudiness desesases from category 3 to category 1 in this
section.
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7. Another complaint they had was that in our weather forecast
to them the winds have varied from one quadrant to another from 210
to 90 degrees. While they sq- that might be possible, they say in
a particular case it is completely .rrsarous besavas VW do have
pretty good indication of the wind from their charts and they could
see the.. fixecast wind, directions ware in error. I wouldn't do
agythiug sk*et this now but watch this condit~w in the ure to
be sure our fierscasters are doing a good ,fob. can look 25X1
into this.
8. Would you have someone plot the message regarding weather before
dispatching it. When they receive the weather at the other and at
time it doss not make sense, and if someone here would plot the
message, they too would see it was impossible to got a weather picture
from the dispatch.
9. The information gets as a result of our flights
in denied territory is ttid to 12th Air Wires or USAFE.
;a. Beebe objects to this because he claim , he carrot furnish paro-
tecti.on for our bird without this information as soon as
people pick it up. I an going to look into this and see that this is
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changed so tha
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oan ,girt both Detachment A and
,.den. Beebe andl [information regarding snwq rwwtiora.
alb, sad.
J. A. GIBE
Deputy Project Diraator
1&2-Ops
3 .ice
14 -JAO
- Chron.
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