CONSEQUENCES IF THE USE OF TROJAN HORSE AND YANKEE TEAM PHOTOGRAPHY IS DENIED TO IAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S02149R000100330008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 25, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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25 February 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Chief, D/T
FROM: Chief, T/CST
SUBJECT: Consequences if the use of Trojan Horse and
Yankee Team photography is denied to IAD
1. The loss of Trojan Horse and Yankee Team photography would
result in a serious impairment to our ability to provide timely and
complete information and analysis on Laos to DOD. If the DP is
kept in the Washington area only 5-10 days, past experience indicates
that IAD would have little if any time to view it. DIA has been
keeping film on the average 5-7 days and PAG has been keeping it on
the average 3-5 days. This means it would be necessary for IAD to
scan the negative, select those portions which would be of intelli-
gence value, and make arrangements to have a DP made. All of this
could mean a delay of a week to three weeks, if duplication can be
done at all, and a considerable expenditure to prepare another DP.
If the original DP is requested from March AFB it is difficult to
estimate when it would be released and returned but it could be
more than 30 days and probably not less than three weeks.
2. In addition to the damage cited by _ of OCI on con- 25X1A9a
tinuing to make reports on targets of significance in Laos, which
likewise would hurt intelligence components in ORR, there are
additional specific points of damage. They are as follows:
a. We would be unable to give a bomb damage assessment
for bridges in Laos.
b. We would be unable to give a status of bridges under
repair.
c. We would be unable to make a comprehensive report on
road construction, repair, or maintenance.
d. In fact reports of any kind on Laos would be extremely
meager since 85 percent of our reporting on Laos is based on the
subject photography.
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3. If it is possible to work out limited duplication from
the negative or to have the DP returned from 15th Airforce, SAC,
at March AFB, Riverside, California it would still result in a
serious delay in preparing reports, a delay which would, in fact,
make the reports of little or no value.
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