(SANITIZED) DESTRUCTOR TEST (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03642A001700020062-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: October 14, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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1~IORANT~I FOR Tffi; RDCORD
St~J~X,'P s Destructor Teat
l~ The fo in arsons witnessed the Final test of the
)estructor Program on 13 August 1959:
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a tank Was located about 70 yards from the
4. In place of a bunkers ~ee~ and a ~+~$+ rein-
airplane. g~~,gs were paced between the bo86Y
forced plywood panAl Was leaned age~inet the backside of the tank for a-ddi?
tional protection.
5. The co~tplete system had been in the airplane 10 days before the
day of the test. During this period the temps ofuthe~s~ he ~ ~~ ~,e
varied between 65oF and 12 ~' ~4~, insimo~ g
Was 85oF outsidt the plane
from the airplane
6. The visitors were taken to a pace 604 ~ camera were moamted
to Watch the test. A Wide angle and a telephot were set at
at the tank for color movie coverage of the testa: The cameras
64 frames/secoaid. The Equipment Safeguard Unit was armed by standing on a
],adder outside the cockpit and turning the starting crank. The arming ~~
Was estimated to be 35 seconds at the ambient temperature and the unit actu-
ally functioned at 34.6 seconds. Every charge detonated high order and som-
a. Most targets were magnetic tape or film and
pletely destroyed. all target ~ at the end also show the damage to
onltiy small pieces Were Pound. The phot
the airplane.
7~ The results from this teat showed that the destructor system can
be neatly and semi-permeuQentlY instaued Without modificati~ ~~$ rP~e?
ill reliably destroy
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The system has graven to be safe an
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