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-RDP78B04558A000700130002-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM CIA WASHDC
TO RUCSBR/SAC OFFUTT AFB. OMAHA, NEB
OUT 52550
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RUCVAB/4080 STRAT WG, OL19, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
RUCVAB/2D RTS, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
RUEAHQ/DIAXX
RUECYG/NAVY PIC
RUWBKG/15T.H AF, MARCH AFB, RIVERSIDE, CALIF
RUWGAA/2AF, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
DA GRNC
BT CIT CIA-Z- '097
S E C R E T
15TH AF (FOR DI) q SAC (FOR DIM, GOL EE, DOCR, DM 4) 2D AF .?"""
(FOR DI). FROM NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
1. CAMERA B 13 WAS USED IN MISSION 3802 FLOWN ON 28 DECEMBER
1963; PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAVY PIC.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE WAS ADEQUATE ANDTHE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
B. 9R SIDE: A PLUS DENSITY STREAK, LOCATED APPROXIMATELY
3.40" FROM AND ROUGHLY PARALLEL TO THE INBOARD EDGE OF THE FILM,
IS PRESENT FROM HEAD TO TAIL. TWO CONTINUOUS, WAVERING MINUS
DENSITY STREAKS ARE PRESENT IN THE VICINITY OF THE OUTBOARD EDGES
OF THE FORMATS THROUGHOUT 75 PERCENT OF THE MATERIAL. SMALL
TEARS, REPARIED AT THE PROCESSING SITE, ARE NOTED ON THE INBOARD
EDGE OF FRAME 1046. SEVERE EDGE-TO-EDGE TEARS DAMAGED FRAME 1047
AND WERE REPAIRED AT THE PROCESSING SITE WITH HEAT SPLICES AND
TRANSPARENT TAPE. PINHOLES APPEAR INTERMITTENTLY IN THE VICINITY
OF THE INBOARD EDGE OF THE FILM. HEAVY CONCENTRATIONS OF PINHOLES
APPEAR IN A NUMBER OF FRAMES. EXAMPLES: FRAMES 111, 552, 553,
653, 782, 783, 898, 911, 922 AND 1102. EDGE-TO-EDGE LIGHT LEAKS
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DEGRADE FRAMES 1048 AND 1049. FRAMES 1045, 1163, AND 1664 CONTAIN
BLISTERS. HEAT SPLICES ARE LOCATED BETWEEN FRAMES 671/672,
1037/1038 AND 1040/1041. A HEAT SPLICE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE
FORMAT OF FRAME 1141 AND MANUFACTRER'S SPLICES ARE LOCATED IN
FRAMES 27 AND 1318. PART 9 (FRAMES 1065-1167) WAS SPOOLED TAIL
OUT .
C. THE FIRST 107 FRAMES CONTAIN A SERIES OF MINUS DENSITY
DOTS SPACED 1,5" APART AND 2.7" FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE. FORMAT
FRAME REFLECTION IS PRESENT AT THE OUTBOARD AND DATA BLOCK EDGES
THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. NUMEROUS PINHOLES OCCUR IN FRAMES 1072
TO 1078. FRAME 1068 CONTAINS A MANUFACTURER'S SPLICE WHILE HEAT
SPLICES ARE LOCATED IN FRAMES 551 AND 1380.
D. BOTH SIDES: THERE ARE 2274 TITLED FRAMES ON EACH SIDE
OF THE MISSION.
E. THERE WERE NO MAJOR PROCESSING ANOMALIES OR CAMERA
MALFUNCTIONS IN THIS MISSION.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD.
B. PRINTING AND PROCESSING WERE GOOD.
Co CLOUDS DEGRADE OR OBSCURE APPROXIMATELY 40 PERCENT OF
THIS MISSION.
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