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-RDP78B04558A000700120029-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 29
• Content Type: CABLE

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4 NOV 1963
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FM CIA WASHDC
TO RUCSBR/SAC OFFUTT AFB, OMAHA, NEB
RUCVAB/4080 STRAT WG, OL 19, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
RUEAHQ/DIAXX
RUECYG/NAVY PIC
RUWBKG/ 15TH AF, MARCH AFB, RIVERSIDE, CALIF
RUWGAA/2D RTS, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
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RUWGAA/2AF, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
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1963 NOV 2 01 1SZ
15TH (FOR DI); SAC (FOR DIM, 3RASS3, JOCK, D"' 4) 2D AF
(FOR DI). FROM NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
C aoe (File)'
1. CAMERA B 13 WAS USED IN MISSION 3762 FLOWN ON 29 OCT 63;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAVY PIC.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE WAS ADEQUATE AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD
WHERE NOT DEGRADED BY WEATHER.
B. 9R SIDE: MINUS DENSITY DOTS ARE NUMEROUS AND VERY WELL
DEFINED INTERMITTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THE MOST PER-
SISTENT ROW OF DOTS IS 3.4" FROM THE INBOARD EDGE AND APPEAR EACH
2.3" ALONG THE MAJOR AXIS OF THE FILM WHEN NUMEROUS ENOUGH TO
FORM A PATTERN. SEVERAL ROWS OF FAINT, MINUS DENSITY STREAKS,
PARALLEL TO THE FILM EDGES, ARE CONTINUOUS FROM THE FIRST
THROUGH THE LAST FRAME. BEGINNING AT FRAME 153 AND APPEARING
INTERMITTENTLY THEREAFTER THERE ARE TWO WAVERING PLUS DENSITY
STREAKS APPROXIMATELY 1.25" AND 3.2" FROM AND PARALLEL TO THE
Declassification Review by NGA/DoD
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OUTBOARD EDGE. THEY VARY IN LENGTH FROM 2.0" TO SEVERAL FRAMES
IN LENGTH. THERE IS A SOLID PLUS DENSITY STREAK 0.02" FROM AND
PARALLEL TO THE OUTBOARD EDGE ASSOCIATED WITH OUT30ARD EDGE
SCALLOPING INTERMITTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. IT APPEARS THAT
PRIOR TO PROCESSING, THE FILM WAS CREASED BY CROWDING THE OUT-
BOARD EDGE CAUSING THE AFOREMENTIONED PLUS DENSITY STREAK.
THERE IS A CONCENTRATION OF LONGITUDINAL SCRATCHES ALONG THE
1.5" NEAREST THE OUTBOARD EDGE THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. BEGINNING
AT FRAME 379 AND APPEARING ON EACH SUBSEQUENT FRAME THERE IS AN
OBSTRUCTION IN A 2.5" X 2.5" AREA IN THE TRAILING CORNER OF THE
FORMAT NEAREST THE OUTBOARD EDGE. IN FRAMES SUBSEQUENT TO FRAME
504 ALL OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ANOMALIES BECOME MORE PREDO'MINANT.
FRAME 627 THROUGH THE END OF THE MISSION IS SEVERELY FOGGED.
THE FOGGING APPARENTLY OCCURRED DURING FIL11 UNLOADING BECAUSE
HAND PRINTS ARE IMAGED IN THE FOGGED AREAS. THE POSITION INDICATOR
LAMPS FUNCTION ONLY OCCASIONALLY. THE PILOT REPORTED A WARNING
SIGNAL ON THIS SIDE AS THE REASON FOR ABORTING THE MISSION.
THERE ARE 629 FRAMES ON THIS SIDE PLUS A SMALL PIECE OF FRAME
630.
C. 9L SIDE: SKIVING ADHERING TO THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE
FRAME FORMAT RESULTS IN A MINOR 03STRUCTION. NUMEROUS LIGHT
ABRASIONS ALONG THE MAJOR AXIS ARE CONTINUOUS FROM THE BEGIN-
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NING OF THE MISSION TO THE HEAT SPLICE AT FRAME 288. THERE
ARE 898 FRAMES ON THIS SIDE OF THE :FISSION.
D. BOTH SIDES: THE ETE~IN IS SLIGHTLY ERRATIC THROUGHOUT
THE MISSION. PROCESSING STREAKS AND PI;IHOLES ARE INTER y1ITT.E NT
AND MINOR. THE NORMAL POSITION SEQUENCE IS INTERRUPTED BY TWO
VERTICALS IN A ROW OF FIVE OCCASIONS (FRAMES 100, 101; 162,
163; 374, 375; 193, 194; 405, 406.)
E. THERE WERE NO PROCESSING ANOMALIES.
F. MISSION ABORTED AFTER 398 FRAMES ON THE 9L AND 629
FRAMES ON 9R.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD WHERE NOT DEGRADED BY WEATHER.
B. PRINTING AND PROCESSING WERE GOOD.
C. CLOUDS OBSCURE OR DEGRADE APPROXIMATELY 50 PER CENT
OF THIS MISSION. SCP-1.
SE C R E T
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