TID COMMENTS ON REPORT CG-3A, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE OF AN ARMY INSTALLATION, 5 OCTOBER 1964

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05708A000600040003-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 13, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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TCS-10301,64
13 November 1964
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director, NPIC
SUBJECT: TID Comments on Report CG-3A, Aerial Photographic
Surveillance of an Army Installation, 5 October 1964
1. and I both reviewed subject report. Our thoughts
and comments were about the same, so are combined in the comments that
follow.
2. The test was not conducted under conditions similar to those
encountered in most operational circumstances; the U-2 operational
altitude is much higher, the time of day is not always optimum nor are
weather conditions, the interpretation is not of such stereotype objects
as trucks, etc.
3. It was stated
9.2 years experience.
4. The number of
the photography of one
be high.
that the PIs used in the test had an average of
This is believed to be a high average.
man-hours (270 per mission) required to interpret
installation of less than 100 square NM seems to
5. A very high degree of reliability of interpretation results
were achieved, but it is our opinion that this is in part attributed to
the near ideal conditions under which the tests were conducted and the
nature of the items interpreted. For more conclusive results, it would
seem that those conditions more closely approximating operational
missions with a wider range of interpretation should be employed.
Distribution:
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