CABLE TO RUCSC/SAC OFFUTT AFB OMAHA NEB FROM NPIC WASHDC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000900020025-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 25
• Content Type: CABLE

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RUECYH/NAVRECONTECHSUPPCEN SUITLAN
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RUWGAA/2AF BARKSDALE AFB LA
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S E C R E T CITE NPIC 4179.
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15TH AF (FOR DI), SAC (FOR DIM/GOLDEN TREf%DOCR, DM 4) 2D AF (FOR DI),2
1. CAMERA B 122 WAS USED IN MISSION 3997 FLOWN
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PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY NAV RECON TECH SUPPCEN.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE EXPOSURE WAS ADEQUATE, AND THE RESOLUTION IS GOOD.
B. 9R SIDE: A SCRATCH LOCATED WITHIN 0.2" TO 0.3" FROM THE
TITLED EDGE OF THE FILM IS CONTINUOUS THROUGHOUT THE FIRST 200
FRAMES. A WAVY PLUS DENSITY STREAK ABOUT 1.0" FROM THE INBOARD
EDGE APPEARS INTERMITTENTLY THROUGHOUT THE MISSION LASTING FOR
SEVERAL FRAMES AT A TIME. ANOTHER PLUS DENSITY STREAK 3.0" FROM
THE INBOARD EDGE RUNS CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH FRAMES 170 TO 1200.
MINUS DENSITY DOTS, SPACED 1.55" APART EXIST 1.5" AND 5.2" FROM
THE OUTBOARD EDGE THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. ABRASIONS, SCRATCHES,
AND EMULSION LIFTS ARE PRESENT IN FRAME 1576. DIAGONAL CREASES
OCCURRED IN FRAMES 1267, 1374 TO 1375, 1512 TO 1514, AND 2803
TO 2804. FINE PLUS DENSITY LINES PARALLEL TO THE MAJOR AXIS OF THE
FILM ARE PRESENT THROUGHOUT PART 2. MANUFACTURING SPLICES EXIST
IN FRAME 498 WITH ASSOCIATED STATIC F:G ON 500 AND IN FRAME 2085
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WITH ASSOCIATED STATIC ON 2087. SEVEN HEAT SPLICES WERE MADE
."? W ADDITIONAL
BETWEEN ADJACENT FRAMES ON THIS SIDE OF THE MISSION
HEAT SPLICES WERE MADE IN THE FORMAT QF FRAMES 313 AND 1577. THE
LATER SPLICE HAS AN ASSOCIATED TE ,_A0 INT TO IT AND HAS BEEN
REPAIRED WITH MYLAR TAPE.
C. 9L SIDE: PLUS DENSITY STREAKS ARE INTERMITTENT THROUGHOUT
THIS SIDE OF THE MISSION. THE EDGES OF THE FILM ARE SCALLOPED FROM
FRAME 949 TO 960. THIS WAS CAUSED BY THE ILM NOT TRACKING PROPERLY
IN THE LACQUERING MACHINE. THERE IS A MANUFACTURING 'SPLICE IN
FRAME 2745. TEN HEAT SPLICES APPEAR BETWEEN ADJACENT FRAMES
ON THIS SIDE. TWO ADDITIONAL HEAT SPLICES OCCUR WITHIN THE FORMAT
OF FRAMES 306 AND 1610.
D. BOTH SIDES: THE DATA CLOCK FRAME COUNTER STOPPED AT 300
(TITLED FRAME 299)=.. IT WAS INOPERATIVE THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER
OF THE MISSION. EVIDENCE OF INBOARD AND OUTBOARD EDGE STATIC
IS PRESENT ON ALL FRAMES IN THE MISSION. THERE ARE 2824 TITLED
FRAMES ON EACH SIDE OF THE MISSION.
E. THERE WERE NO MAJOR CAMERA OR PROCESSING MALFUNCTIONS IN
THE MISSION.
3. POSITIVE:
A. THE PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD.
B. THE PRINTING AND PROCESSING WAS GOOD.
C. CLOUDS DEGRADE APPROXIMATELY 15 PERCENT OF THE MISSION
IMAGERY. GP-1
S E C R E T
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