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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000700110088-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 88
• Content Type: CABLE

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RUCVAB/4080 STRAT WG, OL 19, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
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15TH AF (FOR DI); SAC CFOR DIM, BRASS KN , DO , DM4), 2D AF
CFOR DI). FROM NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
1. CAMERA B 11 WAS USED IN MISSION 3690 FLOWN ON 12 AUGUST 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAVY PIC.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVES
A. THE EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
B. 9R SIDES THERE ARE FIVE ROWS OF MINUS DENSITY DOTS PARALLEL
TO THE FILM EDGES AND SPACED 1.55" APART THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
TWO OF THESE ROWS ARE 1.15" AND 0.65" RESPECTIVELY FROM THE INBOARD
EDGE ANb THE THREE REMAINING ROWS ARE 2.0", 2.2" AND 2.5" RESPECTIVELY
FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE. TWO INTERMITTENT, FAINT, PARALLEL PLUS
DENSITY STREAKS APPEAR FROM HEAD TO TAIL ON THIS MISSION. THESE
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STREAKS ARE PARALLEL TO THE FILM EDGES AND 3.2" IN FROM THE OUTBOARD
AND INBOARD EDGES RESPECTIVELY. SEVERAL INSTANCES OF DESENSITIZED
SPOTS ARE NOTED THROUGHOUT THIS 919t, EXAMPLES ON FRAMES 62, 75,
AND 277. SLIGHT TRANSVERSE BANDING OCCURS THROUGH THE FIRST 1055
FRAMES OF THE MISSION. A 5" FOGGED PATCH IS PRESENT ON FRAME 616
ALONG THE OUTBOARD EDGE AND EXTENDING APPROXIMATELY 3" INTO THE
FORMAT AREA. FOG, THAT OCCURED DURING PROCESSING, DEGRADES AN
0" WIDE PORTION OF THE FORMAT ON FRAMES 994 THROUGH 998.
A MANUFACTURER'S SPLICE IS PRESENT THROUGH FRAME 385 AND SPLICE
ASSOCIATED STATIC OCCURS ON FRAMES 3S3 THROUGH 388. EMULSION
RUBS AND FINE SCRATCHES OCCUR ON FRAMES 680 THROOUGH 685, AND 837
THROUGH 839. A FINE BASE SCRATCH APPEARS ON FRAMES 2154 THROUGH
2230 PARALLEL TO THE FILM EDGES. A SERIES OF SCRATCHES, PINHOLES
AND FORMAT DISPLACEMENT OCCURS ON THE LAST FIVE FRAMES OF THE MISSION,
DUE TO EXHAUSTION OF FILM DURING CAMERA OPERATION. THE LAST FRAME
C2464) FORMAT DISPLACEMENT NECESSITATED TITLING IN FORMAT AREA.
C. 9L SIDEt MINUS DENSITY DOTS ARE PRESENT 0.64" FROM,
AND PARALLEL TO, THE INBOARD EDGE AND SPACED 1.55" APART THROUGHOUT
THE MISSION. ROLLER CHATTER OCCURS ALONG THE INBOARD EDGE FROM
HEAD TO TAIL ON THIS MISSION. A FOGGED PATCH, APPROXIMATELY 5
SQUARE INCHES, IS NOTED ALONG THE OUTBOARD EDGE OF FRAME 20.
MINOR, INTERMITTENT INBOARD EDGE STATIC OCCURS THROUGHOUT THIS
MISSION. A SEVERE FOGGED PATCH IS PRESENT ON FRAME 1176 AND
EXTENDS INTO FRAME 1177. THIS PATCH ADJACENT TO THE OUTBOARD
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EDGE IS AP TELY 16 SQUARE INCL. A BAND OF FOG ALSO APPEARS
FUME 1176 AND TO 5.5" LONG BY 1.5" WIDE, CENTRALLY LOCATED AND
PROJECTING FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGZ OF THE FILM. A FINE BASE SCRATCH
IS NOTED 2" FROM, AND PARALLEL t$, THE INBOARD EDGE OF FRAMES 1128
THROUGH 1167. THE LAST FRAME (22 IS ONLY 5" LONG AND GREATLY
DISTORTED DUE TO EXHAUSTION OF FILM DURING CAMERA OPERATION.
D, SLIGHT METERING PROBLEMS AND INTERMITTENT OUTBOARD KNIFE
EDGE FOG ARE ENCOUNTERED THROUGHOUT THLISSION.
E. THERE WERE NO MAJOR CAMERA MALFUNCTIONS OR PROCESSING
PROBLEMS PRESENT ON THIS MISSION.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD. PRINTING AND PROCESSING ARE GOOD.
B. CLOUDS COVER APPROXIMATELY 20 PERCENT OF THE MISSION.
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