FIELD READOUTS OF (SANITIZED) PHOTOGRAPHIC MISSIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01709A002700030022-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: March 12, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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COMOR-D-34/40
(CWG -D -9 / s )
12 March 1965
SUBJECT: Field Readouts o1Photographic Missions
1. In accordance with the agreement reached at COMOR on
11 March (see COMOR-M?-301, paragraph 3c), the WG analysis of
recent problems arising from field readouts ofrnissions and its
remedial suggestions are attached for your study and further considera-
tion at COMOR on 18 March. You will note that the paper prepared by
the PWG was prepared for further discussion with DIA so that the format
of instructions and comments going to the field would of necessity be
considerably different.
2. It is proposed that COMOR address itself primarily to the
substance and leave drafting of the final document to the DIA,
Executive Secretary
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COMOR-D-34/40
(CWG-D-9/7)
12 March 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Defense Intelligence Agency
ATTENTIQV :
Special Activities Office
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1. The COMOR Photo Working Group has reviewed recent
field readouts of missions and suggests that if the procedures
outlined before were adopted, the IPIR's would he less difficult to
process and analyze.
Organization
Reports should be organized primarilyby COMOR
target number. Ideally, if targets in more than one country
are covered, they should be grouped by country and listed
b COMDR number. The IPIR .roduced b
formatted satisfactorily although the targets are not
separated by county . In contrast, the field IPIR for
I was organized by general category
of intelligence interest and not by county MOR number.
It should be noted that the field IPIR forwas organized
by country, and was a significant improvement over that
produced fo~ although there was still no COMOR
order arrangement.
Content
Readout in IPIR's should include only targets of
national interest including all active COMOR targets, and
significant bonus targets. Bonus targets, defined as
previously unknown targets, should be reported and
identified as bonus after other targets in the same
functional category such as airfields, ordnance depots,
or SAM sites. The IPIR for contained readout on
several targets which should not be reported in IPIR's
includin an inactive search target , and the
hich is not a national intelli-
gence target.
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COMOR-D-34/40
(CWG-D-9/7)
c. The authoritative target data to be used
as the base for IPIRts are the COMOR target lists on
China, North Korea, Sino-Indian border, and Indochina.
(1)
The document series and most
recent COMOR Photo Working Group (CWG)
document numbers for each file are as follows:
Country/ Area
CWG Number and Date
China
CWG-D-22 / 12,
18 February 1965
North Korea
CWG-D-23/2,
4 December 1964
Sino-Indian Border
CWG-D-26/4,
7 January 1965
Indochina
CWG-D-7/16,
25 February 1965
(2) It should be noted that the files
for Laos and.'No'rth Vietnam,forme:ray carried
in the C'WG-D-25 series for Laos--and the
C.WG-D.-24 series for. North Vi,etnam are no .. ,
longer valid, and that targets covered in.these
areas should be reported by ' the- COMOR numbers
appearing in CWG-D-7/1.6.
(3) To facilitate readout on current
requirements, DIA should insure that the current
COMOR data are available to the field center. On
the basis of IPIR~which contained unordered
readout on active and inactive targets in China,
Laos, and North Vietnam, it appears that the
current target ists on, those areas were not being
used. Mission is s
readout for the
where the new air ie was reported under an
inactive number, and an abandoned field on the
active number. This was probably caused by use
of an out-of-date targetlile.
d. Information on individual targets should at the
minimum be comprised of a target heading containing the
COMOR number, the target name, the country in which the
target is located, and the geographic coordinates of the
target. Readout should be responsive to the COMOR
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requirement for information. The heading lines of th
most recent field readouts on Mission
andiI contained only the name and coordinates of
the targets and some readouts were not responsive to
latest COMOR requirements (see c (1) above).
In our cable of 23 December 1964 in response to
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provided to the field to facilitate IPIR reporting in COMOR number
order. Since then there has been an informal meeting on 30 December
between staff members of CIA computer services, a DIAXX repre-
sentative and a member of the COMOR PWG staff.
At this rne was made to provide magnetic tapes to the
field center for use directly or for reformatting for use on field
computers. There has been no further response.
In Summary:
a. Field readouts should be reported in the
same formats and organization as IPIR's produced by
NPIC, with the qualifications expressed in para 1 b.
b. Listings produced by the COMOR PWG
should be used for target data. As an alternative, a
system. of magnetic tape exchange for computerized
target processing should be adopted as soon as possible
to preclude further difficulties resulting from organi-
zation, format, or data base inadequacies.
COMOR Photo Working Group
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