CABLE TO RUCSBR/SAC OFFUTT AFB OMAHA NEB FROM CIA WASHDC

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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1STH AF (FOR DI); SAC (FOR DIM, BRA OB, DOCR, DN 4), 20 AF
(FOR DI). FROM NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
1. CAMERA B?8 WAS USED IN MISSION 3703 FLOWN ON 27 AUGUST
1963; PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY BARXSDALE.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE WAS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
B. 9R SIDE: A MINOR INTERMITTENT LONGITUDINAL PLUS DENSITY
ABRASION IS FOUND 2.3' FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE. EXAMPLES OF THIS
ARE: FRAMES 1505, 1513, 1518 AND 1521. THERE ARE ALSO CREASES
ON FRAMES 001 AND 002 AND A MANUFACTURING SPLICE ON FRAME 1068
tfENSITY DOTS 1.55" APART AND .35" FROM THE TITLED EDGE OCCUR THROUG
WITH ASSOCIATED PINHOLES, HANDLING MARKS, STATIC AND A CREASE
TO FRAME 1099.
Co, 9L SIDE: ROLLER STATIC ALONG THE INBOARD EDGE AND MINUS
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OUT THE ENTIRE SIDE. RE IS ALSO INBOARD EDGE ?TIC IN THE
HALF OF THE MISSION, APPROXIMATELY 1,4H FRAMES. FROM
.FRANZ 2197 TO THE END (FRAME 23")THERE ARE A SERIES OF PARALLEL
LOIISITUDINAL PLUS DENSITY ARRAS .< THE MOST PREDOMINANT OF WHICH
ARE 3.0" AND 1. 1" FROM THE INBOARD THERE IS A FOGGED AREA
ON FRAME 1448 WHICH EXTENDS FROM (AND INCLUDES) THE TITLED EDGE
AND IS TRIANGULAR IN SHAPE? THE BASE OF THE TRIANGLE IS 2.2"
WIDE AND COINCIDES WITH THE EDGE. . THE FILM ON THE TITLED SIDE.
IT EXTENDS PERPENDICULARLY FROM THIS EDGE ABOUT S.0" INTO THE FORMAT
AREA WITH THE SUPPLY SIDE OF THE FOG SHARP AND CLEAR. THE THIRD
LEA OF THE TRIANGLE CON TAKE-UP SIDE) ISNOT AS WELL DEFINED.
IT IS SIMILAR TO THOSE LIGHT LEAKS REPORtED ON MISSIONS 3697,
3699 AND 3701.
D. THE SHUTTER FAILED TO OPEN IN THE VERTICAL POSITION IN
EVERY INSTANCE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MISSION. MINOR PROCESSING
STREAKS ARE ALSO FOUND ON BOTH SIDES THROUGHOUT.
E. AN INTERMITTENT CAMERA MALFUNCTION IS EVIDENT THROUGHOUT
THE ENTIRE MISSION. EVERY VERTICAL FRAME WAS LOST DUE TO THE SHUTTER'S
FAILURE TO OPEN. THIS CAMERA SHOULD NOT BE USED AGAIN UNTIL
A CHECKOUT IS MADE TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE MALFUNCTION.
THERE WERE NO MAJOR PROCESSING ANOMALIES. TOTAL NUMBER OF TITLED
FRAMES WAS 2399.
3. POSITIVEs
A. PI SUITABILITY WAS GOOD THOUGH THE P1' WERE HAMPERED BY
THE LOSS OF THE VERTICAL FRAMES. AN ESTIMATED 19 PERCENT OF THE
TARGETS WERE NOT COVERED BY PHOTOGRAPHY BECAUSE OF THE CAMERA
MALFUNCTION.
8. TEN PERCENT OF THE EXPOSED FRAMES WERE OBSCURED BY CLOUDS.
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