FILM EVALUATION MISSION 3641

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000700100070-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 70
• Content Type: CABLE

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FOR DI, BRASS KNOB9 DOCR, DN 4, DID SAC HQS, OMAHA. FROM NATIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER. SUBJECT: FILM EVALUATION
MISSION 3641.
1. CAMERA B 11 WAS USED IN MISSION 3641 FLOWN ON 22 JUNE 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY LAUGHLIN.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE: RESOLUTION IS GOOD AND THE EXPOSURE IS
ADEQUATE.
3. 9R SIDE: ROLLER STATIC IS EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THIS MISSION,
ON THE OUTBOARD EDGE. THIS CONDITION IS TYPICAL AND HAS BEEN
DESCRIBED ON PREVIOUS MISSIONS. ALSO, ON THE OUTBOARD SIDE OF
THE FILM, READING FROM THE EDGE INWARD, A PATTERN OF TWO MINUS
DENSITY DOTS OCCUR, APPROXIMATELY .05" IN DIAMETER FOLLOWED BY
A MINUS DENSITY DASH ABOUT .10" LONG. THE FIRST DOT IS 1.95"
FROM THE OUTBOARD EDGE, THE SECOND IS 2.15" FROM THE SAME EDGE,
THE DASH BEGINS 2.4" FROM THE SAME EDGE. THIS PATTERN IS IN A
LINE AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE FILMS LENGTH. EXPOSURES 517 THRU 744
ARE AFFECTED BY HEAVY PLUS DENSITY STREAKS OF VARIOUS INTENSITIES
AND DIMENSIONS RUNNING PARALLEL TO THE FILM EDGES. THEY APPEAR
TO BERELATED TO PROCESSING. HEAVY BASE SCRATCHES ARE INTERMITTENT
ON EXPOSURES 1 THRU 60$. A LOOSE WIRE NEAR THE DATA CHAMBER
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CAUSES A MINUS DENSITY STREAK IN THE M MAT.
4. 9L SIDEt ROLLER STATIC, OF CONSIDERABLE DENSITY ON THE
OUTBOARD SIDE AND TO A LESSER E ON THE INBOARD SIDE IS
EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THIS MISSION. THE CAMERA POSITION INDICATOR
LAMPS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE FIRST 300 EXPOSURES THEN
GRADUALLY IMPROVED, AND FINALLY CORRECTED THEMSELVES BY THE END
OF THE MISSION. BASE SCRATCHES ON EXPOSURES 1-180 ARE CONTINUOUS
AND PARALLEL AT THESE MEASUREMENTS,; FROM THE INBOARD EDGER
3/16~, 1 3/16", 2 5/16", S 1/16", 5 11/16".
5. THERE APPEARS TO BE NO MAJOR CAMERA OR PROCESSING MALFUNCTIONS
DURING THIS MISSION WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PLUS DENSITY STREAKS
DESCRIBED UNDER "9R", AND ATTRIBUTED TO PROCESSING.
6. POSITIVEt PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD THROUGHOUT THIS MISSION.
PRINTING AND PROCESSING ARE GOOD.
7. CLOUDS OBSCURE 25 PERCENT OF THIS MISSION.
S E C R E T
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