IDENTIFICATION OF SOVIET TANKS IN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05707A000300080001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 28, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
26 February 1962
MENOBANIEUICHt Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner
Special Assistant to the President
&lance and Technology
Doom 200, Executive Office Building
SUBSECIt Identification of Soviet 'hanks in Aerial Photography
Attached is a izcitoranth= from the Director, National Photo-
graphic Intelligence Center, giving the view? of !WIC on the
resolution and quality of photography necessary to Identity
Soviet tanks, The tabular summary gives premise of Improving
capabilities: for such identification in the fairly near future.
However, frommy awn experience I would underline hlt Lundahl's
introductory cornea that much depends on the conditions and
circumstances of each observation.
? I hope this answers the questions you raised when 'we dis-
cussed estimates of Soviet tank production and inventories.
Haeard Stoertz, Jr.
Office of Rational latimetes
Phone code 50X1
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