LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03424A001200110011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 15, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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June 'AS, 1960
Contract: 046.12319-4
Dear Sir:
Lhereby requests that the total authorised coats ad the
iofereeeed contract be increased b2 434 1 which repress"" a
portion of the costa recurred over a period i m October 20, 1959, to
February 29, 1960. (See details below and on the attached shoot. )
The following chronology of efforts, submitted to substantiate this
requirement for additional funds, begins with t k of October 20,.
1959, inasmuch as it was during this week that Jpersonnel went
to to diaries construction of the units with the developer
after it had become apparent that the drawings we were using were by
so means final and that the units which we were constructing contained
inherent mechanical design deficiencies.
1. On our visit to the devPioper's plant we discovered that
was not in posse-taion o1 the final production prints. Is t,
there were some 30 drawings on which changes had been
made, approximately 19 of which were major changes.
2. After our personnel returned from all parts were
brought up to date in accordance wi the new print chsa se.
However, units constructed to these niaw prints still did sot
yield a workable product.
3. Considerable effort was then spent checking the complete
art of prints for tolerances, finishes, fit. etc. Changes
were made at this time in approximately 40 prints. Where
necessary, the components were remade or reworked.
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4. The first unit constructed in accordance with the IC
prints was found to be workable and was it.corporatfd in a
field unit which was submitted to the customer for testing is
February 1960. Changes were still made after We period,
notably in the trigger and stop disk assembly.
S. The final units were constructed and delivered in Wrck dad
April of 1%0.
takes the position that, inasmuch as the deveiopsr
indicated that we had final prints on October 20, 1959, a good port t
of tb time spent between that date and February 29, 1960 (ceureetlag
the so-called "final prints") should be reimbursed by the C7s*orasrinr .
C.*sma "A" of the attached sheet gives a cost breakdow14 by lames
saftSery, of the total direct labor charges incurred betwioes Oetebor
20. 1959, artd February 29, 1960. Column "8" of the same repsrt
darts that portion of the total charges which we feel Justified is resr.
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Tw will, wee, that we are requesting only $300 for matoris4 eria tborgb
ti-! tidal material cot for the period under discussion waa app 4sl7
$1004. Is 410iditioa, we are requesting asi$lrr profit nor rois*wre
asst fir the travel time of the Instrument Maker from eau 25X1
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We wskose? the opportunity to diocese this proposal with your rs
fts&U hies.
Very truly pours,
/tragl~f
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