CABLE TO RUCSC/SAC OFFUTT AFB OMAHA NEB FROM NPIC WASHDC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A001100120046-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2007
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: December 11, 1964
• Content Type: CABLE

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RUCVAA/4080 STRAT WG OL 19 BARKSDALE AFB LA
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SECRETCITE NPIC3477.
14 L r, 1964
Q ' FIL ;S
15TH AF (FOR DI), SAC (FOR DIM/GOLDEN`FTREE/DOCR, DM 4) 2D AF (FOR DI).
1. CAMERA B 101 WAS USED IN MISSION 3975 FLOWN ON 10 DECEMBER
1964. PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY BARKSDALE.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE WAS ADEQUATE, AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD
WHERE NOT DEGRADED BY ATMOSPHERICS OR VEHICLE ATTITUDE.
B. 9R SIDE: NUMEROUS MINUS DENSITY SPOTS ARE PRESENT IN THE
FIRST 10 FRAMES. MINUS DENSITY DOTS SPACED 2.3" APART ARE LOCATED
2.3" AND 2.5" FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE OF THE FILM IN THE.FIRST 100
FRAMES. A MINUS DENSITY STREAK IS LOCATED 0.1" FROM THE INBOARD
EDGE THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. MINOR DENDRITIC STATIC DISCHARGES
AND PRESSURE ROLLER STATIC OCCUR ALONG THE OUTBOARD EDGE WITH
DECREASING FREQUENCY THROUGHOUT THE FIRST FIVE PARTS OF THE MISSION.
A LARGE DIG IS PRESENT IN THE EMULSION OF FRAME 1239. CREASES
EXIST IN FRAMES 1502 AND 1520.
C. 9L SIDE: THERE IS A STREAK OF FOG ON EACH FRAME. IT
APPARENTLY IS THE RESULT OF A LIGHT LEAK. THE FOGGED AREA IS
APPROXIMATELY 2.5" LONG AND APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PROJECTED ONTO
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THE FILM FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE. IT -IS 5.5" FROM THE TAKE-UP
END OF THE FORMAT AND 2.0" FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE OF THE FILM.
THE RESULTING DEGRADATION IS COMPARATIVELY MINOR. EDGE FOG IS
MINOR AND INTERMITTENT ALONG BOTH EDGES THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
D. BOTH SIDES: THE FIRST TITLED FRAME OF THE MISSION IS 0000
AND THE LAST IS 2151 ON EACH SIDE. CHEMICAL DEPOSITS APPEAR ON
THE EMULSION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BOTH SIDES ON THE LAST 50
PERCENT OF THE MISSION. THE STAINS ARE A YELLOWISH BROWN COLOR
AND ARE ESPECIALLY NUMEROUS AROUND FRAME 1300.
3.
E.
THERE WERE NO MAJOR CAMERA MALFUNCTIONS.
POISITIVE:
A.
B.
C.
PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD.
PRINTING AND PROCESSING IS GOOD.
CLOUDS OBSCURE OR DEGRADE APPROXIMATELY 30 PERCENT OF THE
MISSION.
S E C R E T
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