HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CIA PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE CENTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01083A000100020028-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 10, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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started in 1952 vhan a small gaup of less than 20 hish4 experienced photo
intelligence specialists was organize-a. This organization not '' assisted
in the solution of a wide r9mge of CIA intelligence
in planning the developumt of a photographic intelli a activity so manned,
equipped, and organized as to be able to ba le lace Y9 of photography
and the provision therewith of reports, brieflqp, gre .iea, technical support
and operatic ml assistance in the solution of a vtds ram of probelas of
highest t rtsnce to the national intelligence effort. The espbasi.s f m
the very beginning was directed tom providing teriale and services of
con coneeu . to the whole U.S. inteli i e effort.
In Jay 1955 concentrated playing and actions were directed
tovard the task of centrally and intial.ly handling the large voles of high
quality overflight photography expected from the U-2 ft-ograx scheduled to
begin in early? 1956. Project IF JT?M, later designated the CIA Photographic
Intelligence Center, vas established in the Steuart Building in N.V.
Washington, B. C.
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