DEAR ART:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A000100030008-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 19, 1962
• Content Type: LETTER

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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
December 19, 1962
*DOI Waiver In ERU File*
Dear Art:
Copies of all pertinent correspondence relating to our request for
general coverage attached.
general reaction from
After my visit with you, I spoke with Charles Johnson of our Military
Branch, stationed in Honolulu, to ascertain the status of the sensor
aircraft and to be sure that additional pressure to accomplish this
mission would not be dtwillnbelin find
yet been installed, but iorit c groups n the
most helpful toltheeArmyiofethetPacifich rand to our_
groups s would be st that initial
selves in getting this thing off the ground. We sugge
office
contact be made with Lt. Col. Gentry or Lt. Col. Rail h of and the e offce
of the Chief, Mapping and Geodesy Division, Top g y
You will note in R.M. Moxham's
Engineering (Code 11, Extension 73483).
Gentry has already offered to take
memorandum of December 13 that Col.
this request to higher levels to expedite acomplishment. Col. Gentry
would probably appreciate additional support.
Concurrent with this attempt to obtain the requested imagery, we are
investigating the possibility of obtaining imagery by civilian means.
This coverage is intended to supplement the military coverage or to
We find
serve in lieu of military coverage if our request is denied. Wwe are
that sensors are available for lease from H. R. B. Singer and
currently searching tfor a ainingutheb imagery throughtciviliandchannels is
estimated d cost o of obtaining
from five to six thousand dollars.
We would deeply appreciate any support you may be able to give to this
project.
Sincerely yours,
~illiam A. Fischer
Branch of Theoretical Geophysics
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