FILM EVALUATION MISSION (SANITIZED) 156

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 30
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FROM NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATI R.
SUBJECT: FILM EVALUATION MISSION El 156. Grace (File) 25X1
1. CAMERA B 3 WAS USED IN MISSION 156 FLOWN ON 12 JUNE 1963; 25X1
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY EASTMAN KODAK.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE: THE EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE AND THE RE-
SOLUTION IS GOOD. THE SHUTTER STUCK OPEN FOR TWENTY-THREE SECONDS
(APPROXIMATELY SIX CAMERA CYCLES) ON DATA CHAMBER COUNTER NUMBER
3240 RESULTING IN ONE FOGGED FRAME. ANOTHER INSTANCE OF SHUTTER
MALFUNCTION IS EVIDENT ON COUNTER NUMBER 3536, WHERE THE DATA CLOCK
INDICATES THE FILM DID NOT ADVANCE FOR 54 SECONDS (APPROXIMATELY
13 CAMERA CYCLES). DURING THIS TIME THE SHUTTER PARTIALLY OPENED
SEVERAL TIMES AND THEN REMAINED CLOSED, RESULTING IN MULTIPLE IMAGES.
SLIGHT OVERLAPPING OF FORMATS IS NOTED ONLY IN THE AREAS OF THESE
SHUTTER MALFUNCTIONS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE METERING IS SLIGHTLY
ERRATIC THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
3. 9R SIDE: A PLUS DENSITY STREAK IS PRESENT 3.25" FROM AND
PARALLEL TO THE OUTBOARD EDGE OF THE FILM THROUGHOUT THE SIDE.
SEVERAL FINE, PARALLEL MINUS DENSITY STREAKS OCCUR INTERMITTENTLY
THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THESE STREAKS ARE 0.5" APART AND RUN
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PARALLEL TO THE FILM EDGES. A SERIES OF EMULSION SCRATCHES OCCUR
ON FRAMES 3531-3539 AND ARE BELIEVED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOVE
MENTIONED SHUTTER MALFUNCTION ON FRAME 3536.
4. 9L SIDE: INTERMITTENT ROLLER STATIC IS PRESENT ALONG THE
INBOARD EDGE THROUGHOUT THIS SIDE. SLIGHT EDGE STATIC OCCURS
ON THE OUTBOARD EDGE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MISSION. PRESSURE
STREAKS ARE NOTED INFREQUENTLY THROUGH CENTER OF THE FORMAT
ON THIS SIDE. A PROCESSOR TRACKING PROBLEM, AT THE BEGINNING,
CAUSED WRINKLING ALONG THE INBOARD EDGE OF SEVERAL FRAMES OF
THIS SIDE AND CAUSED NO DEGRADATION OF IMAGERY.
5. THERE ARE NO MAJOR PROCESSING PROBLEMS.
6. POSITIVE: PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD WHERE WEATHER PERMITS.
PRINTING AND PROCESSING ARE GOOD.
7. CLOUDS OBSCURE OR DEGRADE APPROXIMATELY 50 PERCENT OF THE
MISSION.
S E C R E T
END OF MESSAGE
(ABOVE MESSAGE ALSO PASSED TO CIA WATCH ASP/RR)
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