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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200080106-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2013
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: July 10, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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10 July 1957
I. In so far as AQUATONE is used for strategic photo reconnaissance,
the time element involved in setting up a staging operation is not a key
factor.
2. The vital targets already established can, for the most part, be
reached from Adana, Pakistan, Giebelstadt, or Eielson. Of these, the
bulk of the most vital targets are reachable from Giebelstadt and Pakistan.
3. Tactical use of AQUATONE depends upon the international
situation at any given moment. As of this moment, one may anticipate
the most likely need for tactical use of AQUATONE to be in the Middle
East area, but planning for the tactical use of AQUATONE should be based
on the assumption that coverage would be required not only in the Middle
East but also the Far East and Western USSR and Satellites.
4. In order to evaluate whether AQUATONE capabilities are
adequate for tactical use, let us proceed on the assumption that a ZI
base in western US is maintained and Base A at Giebelstadt. Recognizing
that a tactical mission from Giebelstadt creates no new problem at all,
let us then list the times involved in staging from various pbints,
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movement of film to processing, and how a PI report on an emergency
basis could be prepared.
We asitirnt that URPIC-1 is abandoned and
that URPIC-2, plans for which are drawn, could be activated promptly.
From a Zi base in the west coast and from Giebelstadt, AQUATONE
can stage from Adana, Eielson, japv.nor Formosa within four days.
5.Return of film to processing:
If staged from Adana and' at Giebelstadt, 2 hours.
b. If staged from .Adana with a long flight to, say, Aden,
returning to Adana 14 hours to Wiesbaden processing. .
c. From Eielson to Headquarters or Eastman for
processing, 20 hours.
d. From Japan, Atsugi, to URPIC-2, 2 hours.
e. From Formosa to URPIC-2, 6 hours.
I. From Formosa or Japan to Eastman or Headquarters,
42 hours.
6. PI reports average from any processing unit 10-15 hours.
7. Given the international situation as of today, it would appear
that a tactical capability as outlined would not require maintenance of a
regular base at Adana or Atsugi.
8. What we have learned about the vagaries of obtaining political
permission to overfly, and pending the influence of new R&D upon the
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views of political authorities, it is anticipated that strategic missions
will be relatively infrequent and will be carefully designed to get
essential information. Add to this fact that d frugal and careful use
of AQUATONE requires that intelligence research accomplish the
digestion of the results of previous missions in order to adequately
refine really essential targets and what it is we want to learn from going
to them. An illustration of this is that as important as we think MOZHAYSK
is we would not at the moment recommend the risk of going back to
MOZHAYSK before we had examined TOMSK. ANGARSK, KYZL ORDA.
KY, if this were at all possible. Another illustration: we have currently
concluded that we would not go immediately back into KLYUCHI even
though that mission was not perfect until we had run the missions out of
Pakistan.
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