SUMMARY OF MEDICAL EVALUATION AND QUALIFICATION PROCEDURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00326R000200090002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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SUMMARY OF MEDICAL EVALUATION AND QUALIFICATION PROCEDURES
A. The medical procedures being currently used to evaluate volunteers for
prospective aerospace flight missions represents the culmination of
past experiences and new medical knowledge gained over the past ten
years. The most detailed and exacting yet devised and practised for
the specific purpose at hand, it enables the CM0 to qualify the candidates
on the following criteria:
1. No medical defect or latent predisposing abnormal conditions
exist which could render the candidate unfit or endanger his
health and/pr life during proposed operational activities.
2. The response of the vital physiological systems, e.g. heart,
lungs, neuromuscular, etc., to simulated stress factors has
been found well within normal and desired limits.
3. There is no evidence of mental illness, past or present, nor
indication of predisposing factors for such in the foreseeable
future.
4, Psychological assessment indicates strong, sound motivational
structure to support a high degree of personal performance and
achievement in carrying out the flying requirements of both
training and operational. phases.
5. No positive statement can be made at this time regarding the
candidates' ability to withstand hazardous or threatening
situations which are not: directly related to or.extrapable from
his past military flying experiences.
g. Duplicate medical processing of the volunteer subjects was carried out
at the AF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks AFB, Texas and the Lovelace
,,gF,~oundation for Medical Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The results are
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