FILM EVALUATION MISSION 3643

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000700100063-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 63
• Content Type: CABLE

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FOR DI, BRASS KNOB,DOCR, DM4, DIM, SA HQS. OMAHA. FROM NATIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER. SUBJECT: FILM EVALUATION
MISSION 3643.
1. CAMERA B 13 WAS USED IN MISSION 3643 FLOWN ON 24 JUNE 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY LAUGHLIN.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. RESOLUTION IS GOOD AND THE EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE.
B. 9R SIDE: A PLUS DENSITY STREAK, 5" FROM AND PARALLEL TO,
THE INBOARD EDGE IS INTERMITTENT FROM EXPOSURE 850 THRU 1950.
ON OCCASIONS THIS STREAK DIVIDES AND BECOMES TWO FINE PLUS DENSITY
LINES, .05" APART. AN EDGE SCRATCH PATTERN, INDICATING A PROCESSOR
TRACKING PROBLEM BECOMES EVIDENT ON EXPOSURE 1380. IT BEGINS AT
THE INBOARD EDGE, GRADUALLY BECOMING WORSE, THEN CORRECTING ITSELF
FOR A FEW FRAMES THEN BECOMING WORSE AGAIN. THIS PATTERN IS CONTINUOUS,
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NEVER IMPARING THE IMAGE MORE THAN 0.5" INTO THE FRAME UNTIL EXPOSURE
1695, WHERE A CREASE RELATIVE TO THE EDGE CRIMPING BEGINS AND BECOMES
VERY SEVERE, MANGLING UP TO 75 PERCENT OF SOME FRAMES. THIS CONDITION
OCCURS THROUGH EXPOSURE 1718. AFTER EXPOSURE 1718, THERE IS NO
EDGE CRIMPING OR CREASING. THE EDGE CRIMPING BEGINS WITH A SERIES
OF SCRATCHES AN PIN-HOLES. THE SCRATCHES BEGIN VERY SMALL AND
PROGRESSIVELY BECOME LONGER EXTENDING INWARD FROM THE EDGE.
THE SCRATCHES ARE 0.4" APART AND A PINHOLE APPEARS NEAR THE TOP
OF AND BETWEEN EACH SCRATCH. THERE IS A SERIES OF WAVERING
PROCESSING STREAKS PARALLEL TO THE CRIMPED EDGE IN THE AFFECTED
PORTIONS OF THE FILM. PINHOLES ARE NUMEROUS AND INTERMITTENT
THROUGHOUT THIS MISSION.
Co 9L SIDE: A PLUS DENSITY STREAK OCCURS FROM FRAME 131
TO 232, WAVERING 1.0" TO 2.5" IN FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE. OUTBOARD
EDGE STATIC AND INBOARD EDGE FOG ARE PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
POSSIBLE PRESSURE ROLLER (CAMERA) STATIC OCCURS INTERMITTENTLY
THROUGH THE FIRST 646 FRAMES, BOTH ON THE INBOARD AND THE OUTBOARD
EDGES. A CONTINUOUS PLUS DENSITY STREAK IS PRESENT 3.2" FROM THE
OUTBOARD EDGE THROUGH THE FIRST 646 FRAMES. TWO PARALLEL ROWS OF
IRREGULARLY SPACED PLUS DENSITY DOTS APPEAR INTERMITTENTLY FROM
FRAME 505 THROUGH FRAME 646. THESE ROWS ARE 2" IN FROM THE
OUTBOARD EDGE. PROCESSING STREAKS OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE 9L SIDE.
D. CLOUDS OBSCURE APPROXIMATELY 70 PERCENT OF THIS MISSION.
3. POSITIVE: PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD WHERE WEATHER PERMITS.
PRINTING AND PROCESSING ARE GOOD.
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