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-RDP78B04558A000700110116-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 116
• Content Type: CABLE

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CITE CIA-Z- a3
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FOR DI, BRASS KNOB9 DOCR, DM4, DIM, SAC HQS, OMAHA. FROM NATIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
1. CAMERA B 13 WAS USED IN MISSION 3676 FLOWN ON 26 JULY 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAVY PIC.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
B. 9R SIDE: A HEAVILY FOGGED AREA 2" WIDE, PERPENDICULAR TO
THE LENGTH OF THE FILM, APPEARS ON FRAME 2234.
C. 9L SIDE: ON FRAMES I THROUGH 133 THERE IS EVIDENCE OF
HEAVY, SHARP PRESSURE HAVING BEEN APPLIED TO THE BASE SIDE OF THE
FILM, AT SEVERAL POINTS. THIS CAUSED SEVERE SCRATCHES ON THE SASE
SIDE AND A TRANSFER OF EMULSION TO THE NEXT LAYER OF FILM ON THE
ROLL. THE MOST PREDOMINANT POINTS OF PRESSURE WERE 1.9" AND 3.3"
FROM THE INBOARD EDGE. MINUS DENSITY DOTS APPEAR AT VARIOUS
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INTERVALS, INTERMITTENTLY ACROSS THE AXIS OF THE FIL: THROUGH-
OUT THE MISSION. WHERE THESE DOTS ARE CONSISTENT ENOUGH TO FOR'HHI
A PATTERN, THEY ARE INVARIABLY 1.55" AP:\:-:T ALONG THE MAJOR AXIS
OF THE FILM. THERE IS A HEAT SPL=I.CE ON F tA'ME 1794 AND ANOTHER ON
FRAME 1793 AND ALL OF THE FRAMES 13 TWEE N ARE SEVERELY CREAS":D.
THERE ARE SEVERAL EMULSION SCRATCHES PARALLEL TO THE FILM EDGES
ON FRAMES 666 THROUGH 671.
D. THE EXPOSURE COUNTER STUCK FOR SEVERAL FRAMES ON THREE
OCCASIONS. THUS THE TOTALIZER FRAME COUNT WAS 2777 AS OPPOSED TO
THE ACTUAL FRAME COUNT OF 3039. MINOR PPOCESSINv3 STREAKS ARE
INTERMITTENT THROUGHOUT. MINOR 3ANDING ALONG THE MINOR AXIS
OF THE FILM IS ALSO INTERMITTENT THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THE 2RD
POSITION INDICATOR IS VERY FAINT AND 3AR LY LEGIBLE.
E. THERE WERE NO MAJOR CAMERA OR PROCESSING MALFUNCTIONS.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD. PRINTING AND PROCESSING ARE
B. CLOUDS OBSCURE OR IMPAIR APPROXIMATELY 45 PERCF"NT OF
THIS MISSION.
S E C R E T
(ABOVE MESSAGE ALSO PASSED TO CIA WATCH ASP/PR)
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