CABLE TO RUCDDH/HQS 8TH AF 6594TH TEST SQD. WESTOVER AFB MASS FROM CIA WASHDC

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P 032157Z 1953 JUL 3 22 3A 7 OUT-51'1' 1. 27
FM CIA WASHDC
TO RUCDDH/HQS 8TH AF 6594TH TEST SQD. WESTOVER AFB, MASS
RUCSBR/SAC OFFUTT AFB, OMAHA, NEB
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RUWGAA/HQS 2ND AF BARKSDALE, LA
RUWGSM/4080TH SRW, LAUGHLIN AFB, TEXAS
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FOR DI, BRASS KNOB9 DOCR, DM 4, DIM, AC HQS, OMAHA. FROM NATIONA~ILE
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
1. CAMERA B 11 WAS USED IN MISSION 3650 FLOWN ON 1 JULY 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY WESTOVER,
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
A. THE NEGATIVE WAS SLIGHTLY OVEREXPOSED. THE RESOLUTION
IS GOOD.
B. 9R SIDE: THERE ARE CREASES FROM FRAME 71 TO 107, FROM
FRAME 272 TO 330 AND FROM FRAME 594 TO 608. THERE ARE SMALL UN-
REPAIRED TEARS IN FRAMES 85 THROUGH 88 AND FRAME 282. THERE IS A
SHADOW OF A WIRE NEAR THE DATA CHAMBER THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
THE NEGATIVE IS FOGGED AND SCRATCHES IN FRAMES 1097 AND 1098.
THE 3L POSITION INDICATOR LAMP OPERATED INTERMITTENTLY.
C. 9L SIDE: THREE PARALLEL HEAVY SCRATCHES ON THE EMULSION
SIDE OF THE FILM APPEARING AS FINE PLUS DENSITY STREAKS ARE
PRESENT ON FRAMES 240 THROUGH 2856 (END OF MISSION). ONE SCRATCH
4.3" FROM THE INBOARD EDGE IS PRESENT ON NEARLY ALL FRAMES AFTER
FRAME 240. THE OTHER TWO SCRATCHES, ONE 5.9" FROM THE INBOARD
F.nnF AND THE OTHER 3.8" FROM THE INBOARD EDGE, ARE PRESENTLY INTER-
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MITTENTLY FROM FRAME 240 THROUGH 2856. A ROW OF SMALL MINUS DENSITY
SPOTS APPEARING EVERY 3.54" LOCATED 3.9" IN FROM THE OUTBOARD
EDGE ARE PRESENT ON ALL FRAMES OF THE 9L SIDE. CREASES, USUALLY
ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROPERLY MOUNTED+AQUE HEAT SPLICES, ARE PRESENT
ON FRAMES 383,384,396,528,529,924,1083-1085. OPAQUE HEAT SPLICES
ON HEAD AND TAIL LEADERS IN SOME INSTANCE'S EXTEND INTO THE MAIN
FORMAT APPROXIMATELY .1". EXAMPLE: FRAMES 132 AND 182. INTERMITTENT
ROLLER STATIC IS PRESENT ALONG THE INBOARD EDGE ON FRAMES 1 THROUGH
20. INBOARD AND OUTBOARD EDGE FOG_Z'S PRESENT ON NEARLY ALL FRAMES.
THE FIDUCIAL LOCATED ON THE OUTBOARD EDGE 6" FROM THE TRAILING
EDGE OF THE FRAME IS EXTREMELY RAGGED AND POSSIBLE NOT USABLE ON
ALL FRAMES. NUMEROUS PARTS OF THE MISSION WERE WOUND EMULSION IN
WITH THE TAIL OUT AND THE HEAD IN.
D. NO SERIOUS CAMERA OR PROCESSING MALFUNCTIONS OCCUR ON THIS
MISSION.
3. POSITIVE.
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD WHERE IT IS NOT AFFECTED BY
AFOREMENTIONED ANOMALIES.
B. CLOUDS COVER APPROXIMATELY 25 PERCENT OF THE MISSION.
SE C R E T
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