EVALUATION OF BLACK SHILED MISSION BX 6727

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B03817A000100030087-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: October 20, 1967
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJ: EVALUATION OF BLACK SHILED MISSION BX6727
1. CAMERA TYPE I (115A), UNIT C WAS USED ON MISSION BX 6727.
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE FIELD. THE MISSION CONTAINS
522 TITLED FRAMES.
2. BOTH CAMERAS OPERATED SATISFACTORILY THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
DURING STRAIGHT AND LEVEL PORTIONS OF THE FLIGHT (CAMERA UNCAGED
AND VEHICLE WITHIN THE CAMERA STABILIZATION LIMITS IN ROLL AND
PITCH) ESTIMATED GROUND RESOLUTIONS OF APPROXIMATELY 25X1
-,(ONE BAR PLUS ONE SPACE) WERE ACHIEVED NEAR VERTICAL PORTIONS OF
THE FRAMES.
3. THE EXPOSURE AND PROCESSING WERE ADEQUATE. 1 INCHES
4. A LONGITUDINAL MINUS DENSITY STREAK IS PRESENT 4.
FROM THE NON-DATA BLOCK EDGE OF THE FILM THROUGHOUT THE FIRST HALF
OF THE MISSION; DEGRADATION IS MINOR. A FINE LONGITUDINAL EMULSION
SCRATCH LOCATED 2.15 INCHES FROM THE NON-DATA BLOCK EDGE OF THE
FILM IS PRESENT INTERMITTENTLY FROM FRAME 73 THROUGH 151. CHEMICAI*
STAINS WERE NOTED IN THE NON-DATA BLOCK END OF FRAME 151. A HEAVY
EMULSION SCRATCH LOCATED 0.5 INCH FROM THE NON-DATA BLOCK EDGE
CF THE FILM BEGINS IN FRAME 159 AND ENDS IN FRAME 160. EMULSION
GOUGES WERE DETECTED IN FRAMES 75 AND 113. SEVERAL PINHOLES ARE
PRESENT IN FRAMES 1 AND 2. EMULSION LIFT AND ASSOCIATED TEAR CtS!'F:9 !Ji~3N
LOCATED ALONG THE NON-DATA BLOCK EDGE OF FRAME 518. THE Cy Ha Offi.e Action
IS
EMULSION TRANSFERRED TO FRAME 513; DEGRADATION IS MINOR. THE
IMAGE BE A
FRAME 59. THE APPEARS
PRIMARY CTIOND IS SECONDARY
PRESENT ON IMAGE
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DEGRADATION IS MINOR.
5. THE FORWARD DATA BLOCKS OVERLAP EVERY OTHER FORWARD FRAME
BY APPROXIMATELY ONE-TENTH INCH BEGINNING IN FRAME 35 AND CONTINUI G cso
THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. ova.
6. PROGRAMMED V/H WAS USED THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE MISSION WITH ~__
THE EXCEPTION OF FRAMES 351 THROUGH 510. P-'D
7. CLOUDS OBSCURE 40 PERCENT OF THE MISSION. GROUND HAZE Pc-7;3
IS MINIMAL AND IN CLOUD FREE AREAS GOOD QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHY IS TID
No
AVAILABLE.
8. THE ZERO PRIORITY REPRODUCTIONS AND REGULAR REPRODUC- Psi
TIONS APPEAR TO BE OF EQUAL QUALITY. ~~Ax~ a
9. SATISFACTORY CORRELATION WAS ACHIEVED BETWEEN THE FILM ~P
RECORD AND THE INS TAPE. THERE IS A PLUS ONE MINUTE BIAS BETWEEN ti~~~~ r--
THE INS TAPE AND THE DATA CLOCK. N?A A25 1
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