WEDGE SOLE BOOTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00961R000100150002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 10, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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OSA-4551-63
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10 September 1963
14EMORANDUM FOR: Director for Field Activities; OSA
SUBJECT: Wedge Sole Boots
2501 A REFERENCE:
25X1A
1027 IN 89398, dtd 30 August 1963
1. This is another of several areas where E & E and survival
requirements need to be meshed. has been rather in-
accessible for several months an now as e- n further delayed in
California due to the injury of his wife in an automobile accident.
25X1A 2. has reaffirmed the desirability of wedge soled
boots. n a on o their walking comfort and lack of break-in
requirement their tracks are virtually indistinguishable from native
footwear in most areas of the world.
3. The pilots have flown with this type boot on low altitude
flights without pressure suits and find that they are suitable for
flying. The detachable spur David Clark Co. suggested clipped arounf'
2 5X1A the heel of a conventional boot. accepted this con-
cept without checking with E & E personnel. waver, a detachable
spur could be designed to snap into a metal tube fitted through the
thick foam rubber heel of the desired boot.
4. We suggest David Clark be given the go-ahead on wedge soled
boots, with the provision that if they find the problem to be greater
than expected or if survival potential would be degraded by their
use, that we will, of necessity, accept the conventional heeled type.
5. Although this is a relatively small detail, we feel that we
would be remiss in not pressing for the best possible equipment.
25X1A
Chief, me gence v lion OSA
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