FILM EVALUATION MISSION 3638

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000700100076-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 76
• Content Type: CABLE

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FOR DI, BRASS KNOB, DOCR, DM4, DIM, SAC H , OMAHA, FROM NATIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER. SUBJECT: FILM EVALUATION
MISSION 3638.
1. CAMERA B 11 WAS USED IN MISSION 3638 FLOWN ON 19 JUNE 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCONPLTSMED BY LAUGHLIN..
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE: RESOLUTION IS FAIR. THE EXPOSURE VAIRES
DUE TO THE TIME OF DAY AND HAZE CONDITIONS ENCOUNTERED THROUGHOUT
THE MISSION, BUT IS ADEQUATE IN ALL CASES FOR PHOTO INTERPRETATION.
BASE SCRATCHES PARALLEL TO FILM EDGES ARE FREQUENT AND WITHOUT A
PATTERN. PLUS DENSITY, WAVERING, PROCESSING STREAKS ARE CONTINUOUS
AND PRONOUNCED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MISSION.
3. 9R SIDE: PLUS DENSITY MARKS IN A CHATTERING PATTERN (POSSIBLE
CAMERA ROLLER STATIC) 0.2" FROM INBOARD EDGE, 0.8" WIDE ARE CONTINUOUS
FROM EXPOSURE I THROUGH 803 AND INTERMITTENT THEREAFTER THROUGHOUT
Declassification Review by NGA/DoD
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Excluded from automatic
gowngrading and
declassification
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THE NISSION. A PLUS DENSITY DASHED PATTERN APPEARS CONTINUOUSLY
ON EXPOSURES I THROUGH 380. THE DASHES ARE APPROXIMATELY 0.1"
IN LENGTH AND 0.75" FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE. AN OBSTRUCTION,
RESEMBLING A WIRE IN APPEARANCE, CAUSING A MINUS DENSITY ARE 0.75"
IN LENGTH, CONING FROM AND GOING TO THE DATA CHAMBER APPEARS ON
EACH EXPOSURE. A SEVERE MOTTLED, POCKED CONDITION HAVING A
RIPPLED TEXTURE (RESEMBLING WATER RINGLETS) BEGINS WITH EXPOSURE
ONE AND GRADUALLY LESSENS IN INTENSITY THROUGH EXPOSURE 300.
THE FILM IN THE EFFECTED AREA APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO HEAT
DURING STORAGE OR PROCESSING, WHERE THIS CONDTION EXISTS,
PHOTO INTERPRETATION QUALITY IS ADVERSELY AFFECTED.
4. 9L SIDE: INTERMITTENT EDGE FOG AND CRIMPING IS NOTED THROUGHOUT
THIS MISSION, A PLUS DENSITY CHATTERING PATTERN (POSSIBLE CAMERA
ROLLER STATIC) 0.3" FROM INBOARD EDGE AND 0.5" WIDE IS INTERMITTENT
THROUGHOUT THIS MISSION, PLUS DENSITY STREAKS 0.75" IN LENGTH,
EXTENDING PERPENDICULAR TO THE FILM EDGES, APPEAR INTERMITTENTLY
ON EXPOSURES ONE THROUGH 75.
5. CLOUDS OBSCURE APPROXIMATELY 65 PERCENT OF THIS MISSION.
6. POSITIVE: PI SUITABILITY IS FAIR THROUGHOUT THIS MISSION
WHERE WEATHER PERMITS. PROCESSING AND PRINTING ARE GOOD.
S E C R E T
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