STATUS OF 112A CAMERA SYSTEM (C TRIPLE PRIME)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP63-00313A000500140111-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: October 29, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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29 October 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR : Chairman, Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance
SUBJECT : Status of 112A Camera System (C Triple Prime)
REFERENCE : Memo for DCI from C/COMOR, Dated 2,6 October
1963; Subject: "Review of Use of 112A Camera
Configuration"
1. In connection with the reference and what I know to be the high
level of Community interest in the utilization of the 112A camera system, you
should be aware that effective today we are withdrawing the 11ZA camera from
Barksdale Air Force Base where it has been deployed in support of the BRASS
KNOB mission.
2. The reason ?o:? this witidrawai is that on the third 112A mission
flown as a BRASS KNGI~t flight on 26 October (Mission 3761) the aircraft sus-
tained inverter failure in the course of the flight which the ITEK people feel
may have induced possible loadings on the camera electrical system in excess
of those for which it was designed. Determination of any possible damage to
the camera will 1 ave to be made by a factory inspection of the complete system
at the ITEK plant in Massachusetts. Accordingly, it is necessary to down-load
the system from ;he single aircraft presently equipped to fly it and to send it
back to the East for inspection and maintenance. It is estimated that a period
of perhaps as much as two weeks will be required to complete the cycle and
to have the camera again ready to use.
3. In anticipation of possible requirements for the utilization of the
112A systems we are proceeding independently to assess the
engineering implications of configuring one of the two IDEALIST' aircraft[
to receive the 112A camera. I will keep you advised of the progress
this engineering study, but unless you see reasons why it would not be
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appropriate, I think we will proceed to prepare one such aircraft
for possible on-coming 112A missions.
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Acting Assistant Director
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