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-RDP78B04558A000700110112-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 112
• Content Type: CABLE

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FOR DI, BRASS KNOB9 DOCR, DM4, DI ,--5 HOS9 OMAHA. FROM NATIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
1. CAMERA 3 15 WAS USED IN MISSION 3S7 FLOWN ON 29 JULY 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAVY PIC.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
B. 9R SIDE: THE POSITION INDICATOR LIGHTS DID NOT OPERATE
FOR THE FIRST 450 FRAMES. ONCE OPERATIONAL, THE 2R POSITION' LIGHT
STAYED OUT. FRAME NUMBER 499 CONTAINS AN EMULSION DEPOSIT WHICH
CAME FROM FRAME 502. APPROXIMATELY 592, PERCENT OF THE FOLLOWING
THREE FRAMES WAS SLIGHTLY FOGGED EDGE TO ED3E: 723,725,1615. TH-PE
IS A "V" SHAPED TEAR WHICH STARTS IN THE CENTER OF FRAME 1267
AND EXTENDS THROUGH FRAME 1268. FRAMES 1744 AND 1750 HAVE TEARS
WHICH EXTEND FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE TOWARD THE CENTER OF THE FORMAT.
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THE FORMER IS 0.75" LONG AND THE LATTER IS 3" LONG. SEVERAL PLUS
DENSITY MARKS WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE 34 ENN' MADE BY A GEAR ARE LOCATED
ON THE OUTBOARD EDGE OF FRAME 1754. 'MINUS DENSITY SPOTS ARE FOUND
THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MISSION, OCCASIONALLY FALLING IN A PATTER
2.6" APART. THEY ARE FOUND ANYWHERE ON THE FILM WITH AS ZANY A`
50 TO 75 ON ONE FRAME. ALL ARE FUZZY AND SOME HAVE A FUZZY DARK
CENTER. THE FOLLOWING IS A DESCRIPTION AND THE CONCLUSIONS OF
NPIC REGARDING THE DAMAGE WHICH OCCURRED TO FRAMES 1756 THROUGH
1774: WHEN THE DIAMETER OF THE FILES SUPPLY WAS APPROXIMATELY 9.B",
A BIT OF FOREIGN MATTER NEAR THE OUTBOARD EDGE OF THE FILM ON
THE SUPPLY REEL CAUSED THE WRAP BE INNG DRAWN OFF FOR EXPOSURE TO
ADHERE TO THE NEXT INNER WRAP ON THE SPOOL. THIS RESULTED I',? A
DOUBLE THINCKNESS OF FILM FOR THE LENGTH OF ONE WRAP AND A CO1,NNTIN000'S
IRREGULAR LONGITUDINAL TEAR TO OCCUR AS THE FILM FROM TWO SEPARATE
WRAPS WAS DRAWN OFF. THE TEAR OCCURRED IN THE CAMERA, AND WAS
CAUSED BY FOREIGN MATTER ADHERING TO THE FILM PRIOR TO LOADING THEE
CA MER A.
C. 9L SIDE: INK SPOTS ARE NOTED ON FRAME 1 17. THE METERING
IS SLIGHTLY ERRATIC.
D. THE DATA CHAMBER COUNTER OF THE FIRST MISSION READS 502
INDICATING THAT THE COUNTER WAS NOT SET BACK TO ZERO.
E. THERE WERE NO MAJOR PROCESSING MALFUNCTIONS.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD EXCEPT AS INDICATED ABOVE.
B. CLOUDS COVE ,,F? APPROXIMATE LY 5i: PZZ C'E 5T OF THIS MISSION
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