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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000700120012-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 12
• Content Type: CABLE

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i. CAMERA B 13 YAS USED IN MISSION 3766 FLOYN ON 4 NOV 1963;
PROCESSING YAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAVY PIC.
~. ORIGINAL NEBATIVE=
A. THE EXPOSURE YAS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS FAIR TO
POOR. DEGRADATION APPEARS AS IMAGE SOFTNESS, SUGGESTING VIBRATION.
THE "1L" POSITION YAS MOST SEVERELY AFFECTED.
B, 9R SIDEs THE FILM MISTRACKED BY APPROXIMATELY 8.1"
TOYARD THE OUTBOARD EDGE.. THE DATA BLOCK IS ILLEGIBLE, BEING
UNBEREXPOSED AND OU? OF FOCUS. EMULSION BLISTERS YERE NUMEROUS AND
USUALLY OCCURRED NEAR THE OUTBOARD EDGE. EXAMPLES MAY BE OBSERVED
ON FRAMES 780-782 AND iS79. SMALL EMULSION GOUGES YERE NOTED
INTERMITTENTLY NEAR THE OUTBOARD EDGE ?HROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
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1ItE'ARE SEVERAL TRANSVERSE ABRASIONS AND SCRATCHED AND ASSOCIATED
WITER MARKS ON THE EMULSION SIDE OF FRAME 1381. THERE IS A
MANUFACTURING SPLICE NITM ASSOCIATED PROCESSING STREAKS AND STATIC
DISCHARGES ON FRAMES 1831,; AN0T1 !lANUFACTURING SPLICE HETYEEN
FRAMES 615 AND 616 IS F011MD TO ~ FREE OF ANY DEGRADATIONS.
C. 9L SIDEt FOREIGN MATER RESEMBLING LINT, ADHERING TO THE
SUPPLY END .OF THE CAMERA FORMAT IS IMAGED ON EACH FRAME. THERE ARE
SEVERAL ROVS OF MINUS DENSITY DOTS ON THE FIRST 13? FRAMES OF THE
MISSION. A YAVERIHG MINUS DENSITY STREAK, ?. 1" MIRE AND RANGING
FROM !. 0" TO 23.8" IN LENGTH, EXISTS APPROXIMATELY 1.8" FROM AND
PARALLEL TO THE INBOARD EDGE INTERMITTENTLY TNORUGNOUI' THE MISSION.
THE FIRST 25 PERCENT OF THE MISSION IS AFFECTED HY AN INTERMITTENT
PLUS DENSITY STREAK AND ASSOCIATED STA?IC OISCNARGES ALONG THE MAJOR
AXIS ?. 1S" FROM THE INBOARD EDGE. SEVERAL ROMS ~F FINE, LONGITUDINAL
PLUS DENSITY LINES APPROXIMATELY 1.?" LONG APPEAR IN A ROY ALONG THE
MINOR AXIS OF THE FILM INTERMITTENTLY ON FRAMES ~?? THROUGH 1608.
THIS SITUATION IS SH66ESTIVE OF PREPREOCESSIN6 CINCH MARKS.
MANUFACTURING SPLICES ON FRAMES 288 AND 602 ARE THE GENESIS OF
SEVERAL PROCESSING STREAKS AND STATIC DISCHARGES.
D. BOTW SIDES= PRROCESSING STREAKS, PINHOLES AND EDGE FOG
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" ~iNaR AND INTERMITTENT THItOUGNOUT. THE SEQUENCE OF CAMERA
POSITIONS VAS INTERRt~P7ED BY ri0 CONSEf~iIVE VERTICALS ON FIVE
OCCASIONS, (FRAMES Ye AND 91, 121 AN122~ 152 AND 153 183 AND
1Q4 ~ 211 ANO 2 !S) A SIM ILAR MALIw'WICT ION OCCURED ON ABORTED MISSION
37~ YHICH USED TltE SAME CAMERl~~ ,IN ADDITION T? THE GENERAL SOFT
QUALITY AS DESCRIBED IN ITEM 2A~ A~ AREA APPROXIMATELY 1.8" VIDE
ON THE DATA CHAMBER END OF EACH FRAMES IS EVEN LESS SHARP THAN THE
REST OF THE IMAGERY. T}~ERE ARE 2 X364 TITLED FRAMES ON EACH SIDE
~ TMiS MISSION.
E, THERE YERE NO MAJOR PROCESSING ANOMALIES.
F. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THIS CAMERA BE THOROUGHLY CHECKED
PRIOR TO USING IT ON ANOTHER ACTIVE '~lISSiON.
3. POSITIVE!
A. PRINTING AND PROCESSING MERE GOOD.
B. PI SUITABILITY IS FAIR TO POOR AS PER THE DEGRADATIONS
NOTED IN ITEM 2A.
C. CLOUDS OBSCURE OR DEBRA APPROXIMATELY 50 PERCENT OF
THE MISSION.
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