TRIP TO GRIFFIS AIR FORCE BASE ON CONCEALMENT VEST PROGRAM.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03642A000700040005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 16, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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UvivrutIV I IAL Cc
16 November 1956
SUBJECT: Trip to GriffisjAir Force Baselon Concealment Vest Program.
1. On the 7th and 8th November 1956 a meeting was held at Griffis Air
Force Base, Rome, New York. The persons attending were:
As. Lawrence Pinnio
Mr. Samuel M. Beane
Ma.ior William Fulton
RADC
RADC
ARDC
The purpose of the visit was to familiarize the Agency employees with the
equipment to be used in the vest being developed for the Air Force and
to discuss any operational requirements to be considered in the design.
2. Major Fulton and 1r. Beane will furnish us with a report on the first
vest design developed by the Human Factors Laboratory at Griffis. A second
report concerning human factors to be considered in the design of such an item
will be provided, in addition to a complete set of equipment around which the
new vest must be tailored. With these three items at our disposal actual
work can be started by
3. Several points that we must consider for an acceptable final item
were established. The Alerter must be in contact with the skin so the agent
will know that a signal is being received. Access to the recorder is necessary
in order that a small microphone can be plugged into it for voice recordings.
It is necessary that the fully clothed agent be able to remove the vest in
r.inimum time, three to five seconds being suggested. The three receivers
should face the sale direction, because this would simplify direction finding.
Er. Pinnio stated that the control box should be accessible to either hand,
since it might be necessary for the controls to be manipulated while the
other hand is free to be used for other purposes. It was pointed out that
the cable lengths between any two items can be lengthened or shortened,
whichever is expedient. Also the "r:_ixer" unit and the"autostart" unit can
be redesigned into any shape We desire, within reason. Thinner units for this
syotsr will be forthcoming in the future, and we can suggest to RADC opti-
ri~ir e: ze or shape for individual units.
4. It is anticipated t'zat c'.ooc coordination will be necessary with
Major Fulton at Daytom and ;:r. Beane at RADC to integrate their needs into
our design. These persons are cleared and can be contacted directly at any
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