FILM EVALUATION MISSION 3643-A

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000700100065-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 65
• Content Type: CABLE

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2 7 JUN 1963
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S E C R E T CITE CIA-Z 710
FOR DI, BRASS KNOB, DOCR, DM 4, VIM, SAC HQS, 0 AHA. FROM NATIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER. SUBJECT: FILM EVALUATION
MISSION 3643-A.
1. CAMERA B 11 WAS USED IN MISSION 3643-A FLOWN ON 24 JUNE
1963; PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY LAUGHLIN.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS FAIR.
B. 9R SIDE: FRAMES 0001, 0002 AND 0031 THROUGH 0046 AND HALF
OF FRAME 0047 ARE MISSING. THERE ARE SEVERE CREASES, SCRATCHES
Excluded from automats
downgrading and
Declassification Review by NGA/DoD
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AND PROCESSING STREAKS THROUGHOUT THE FIRST 27 FRAMES. MINOR
STATIC IS EVIDENT ALONG THE OUTBOARD EDGE. THERE IS A REPAIRED
TEAR IN THE MIDDLE OF FRAME 0047. PLUS DENSITY LINES ARE
RECURRENT THROUGHOUT THE 9R SIDE. THESE LINES ARE APPROXIMATELY
IN THE CENTER OF THE FORMAT AND PARALLEL TO THE EDGES. THERE ARE
BLISTERS, SCRATCHES AND EMULSION LIFTS IN FRAMES 0049, 0054,
0060, 0065, 0079 AND 0099. THERE ARE TWO ROWS OF MINUS DENSITY
DOTS MEASURING 1.55" APART AND LOCATED 2.27" AND 1.85" FROM, AND
PARALLEL TO, THE OUTBOARD EDGE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE ROLL.
THERE ARE THREE VERY FINE MINUS DENSITY LINES PARALLEL TO THE
EDGES AND LOCATED 2.8", 3.3" AND 6.0" FROM THE INBOARD EDGE.
THESE APPEAR TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE VACUUM CHANNEL ON THE
CAMERA PLATEN.
C. 9L SIDE: MINOR STATIC IS EVIDENT RECURRENTLY ALONG THE
INBOARD EDGE.
D. THERE IS SEVERE DEGRADATION OF THE IMAGERY IN BOTH SIDES
DUE TO HEAVY PLUS DENSITY MARKS THAT MEASURE FROM 0.3" TO 0.5"
WIDE WHICH ARE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 0.2" FROM BOTH EDGES.
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THESE MARKS ARE EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE INBOARD EDGE OF BOTH
THE 9R AND THE 9L AND APPEAR INTERMITTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE OUT-
BOARD EDGE.
E. NO MAJOR CAMERA MALFUNCTIONS ARE NOTED. THE 19 FRAMES
THAT ARE MISSING ARE ATTRIBU?,I PROCESSING ANOMALIES.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD EXCEPT WHERE THE DAMAGED NEGATIVE
AND THE "CHATTER" TYPE PLUS DENSITY NARK DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH
4 DEGRADED THE POSITIVE. THE PROCESSING OF THE POSITIVE IS GOOD.
B. CLOUDS COVER 55-60.PERCENT OF THE MISSION.
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