1.500 SPIES MEET ON BEACH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402390001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 24, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402390001-9
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;America's ballistic missile and space projects began their,
f;?9th annual symposium at Miami Beach today.
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Fifteen hundred members of the Society of Photo-optical't.
1,Instrumentation Engineers ? "SPIES" ? gathered at the 1
; Deauville Hotel to hear technical papers by scientists, en--4
gineers-and technicians from the government, military and
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Robert S. Scott, assistant director, government relations.:
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tributing and will contribute ? by gathering and focussing, I
1.recording and processing, these space age images ? 'written
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He said photo-optical instrumentation "is challenged to
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payload of other instruments, controls, sensors and man.
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in its essentiality to the scientifc msson or, to the lives of.,
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I , "Our pictures, call them data if you must, will have to
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whether the earth wai round or flat. '
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"The on-board cameras provided the reassuring evidence ,
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''in these cases a picture may be worth more thin-a]
tthpusand words -t-. it .may be ,priceless;".?Scott add,ed. :,,,'3
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