REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN INVESTIGATION OF LOSS OF (Sanitized) U-2, 8 SEPTEMBER 1967

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• Publication Date: October 3, 1967
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plans
Request for Assistance in Investigation of
Loss of U-2,
8 September 1967
1. Preliminary conclusions regarding the loss of an
IDEALIST/TACKLE U-2 in Che-chiang Province, eastern China
Mainland, on 8 September 1967, indicate that the aircraft was most
probably brought down by Chicom surface-to-air missile fire. The
approximate coordinates where the loss occurred are 300 38' N,
1200 25' E, and approximately 65 miles southwest of Shanghai.
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CARL E. DUCKETT
Deputy Director
for
Science and Technology
Attachment:
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#6 - DD/S&T Registry (w/att)
#7 - DD/S&T Registry (w/o/att)
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
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SUBJECT : Anal
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1. This memorandum is for information only.
2. This study results from an.exhaustive analysis of
all available data which are pertinent to the loss of Article
373 on 8 September 1967, and represents the coordinated views
of the Office of Special Activities, Office of Scientific
Intelligence and the Office of ELINT.
3. Facts:
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a- The mission was flown in response to
coverage, on an urgent oasis, o seventeen inese
Communist (ChiCom) airfield targets.
b. The mission aircraft departed
,on 8 September. The route was designed to cover six of
the 17 highest priority. targets. The mission aircraft
penetrated ChiCom territory at approximately 0302Z at a
point on the China coast approximately 45 nautical miles
northeast of Shanghai. Attachment 1 depicts the planned
route of flight, and the actual route of flight
c. Within the twenty-four hour period prior to
mission launch, and again shortly after loss of the
mission aircraft, NPIC completed a detailed SAM search
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of all available photography of the area within fifty
nautical miles of the last reported position of the
mission aircraft. With the exception of the previously
reported SAM sites located at Shanghai, NPIC was unable
to detect any new SAM sites. (Attachment 2). On 19
September 1967 the Imagery Analysis Staff of DDI reported
discovery of a probable SAM site at Chia Hsing Airfield.
Their report was based on an extensive examinatio of KH-4
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special emphasis on the Chia Hsing Airfield. A copy of
their report is included herein as Attachment 7.
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b. TACKLE overflight operational missions will be
suspended until these modifications have been accomplished
and satisfactorily flight tested (approximately six weeks
for critical items).
c. Upon resumption of TACKLE operational missions,
and until the threat is better defined, mission routes
will be designed to keep the mission aircraft at least
fifteen nautical miles from high priority ChiCom Airfield
targets.
d. An examination of present
will be conducted to determine if
assignments can provide better data for subsequent
post-mission analysis.
e. Efforts will be made to withhold mission
information from all except those who have a confirmed
need-to-know.
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PAUL N. BACALIS
Brigadier General, USAF
Director of Special Activities
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8 September. 1907
M0RANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBYECT; Resume of LT IC Searches for SAM Sites in China in Support
of OSA
1, WIC and OSA have Ion ha.d formal a.rraalgements for NPIC
searches of photography to locate SAN: sites in Communist China. On
23 March 1967 a revised Memorandum of-Understanding entitled "SAM
Search Procedures for IDEALIST/TACKLE Missions" was approved Jointly
by the Director of Special Activities, DD/S&T and the Director, National
Photographic Interpretation Center. This procedure calls for NPIC to
be given advanced notice of planned routes for DU-2 flights. NPIC
uses these canned routes in the conduct of a search of all photography
as it Is received. The spotting of a SAM site during this search is
instantly reported. 4nien OSA specifically takes steps to launch a
U-2 mission, the Center is advised.NPIC quickly double checks to make
sure that all photography was in fact searched upon its receipt and,
an advisory cable is sent from NPIC to OSA before the "go" signal is
given:' NPIC is normally given ;word of a pending flight from 30 hours
to 12 hours in advance of mission takeoff time. NPIC undertakes to
insure that a search of all available photography had been carried
out in areas 30 NM on either side of planned route and within a 50
M4 radius of the principal targets and suspect SAM areas specified
by OSA..'NPIO rechecks "suspect" and interest areas indicated by OSA.
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SUi3J CT ' Resume of NPIC Searches for SAM. Sites. in China in Support
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Chronology - C297C
a. Canned route 1058 received 31 August 1967
b. 1600, 5 September 1967 - Mission alerted fo11owinh
weather briefing.
c, 1620, S September 1967 - NPIC alerted to conduct SAM
search of cflxuzod route 1058 (C297C)
d. 2111, 5 Sep .ember 1967 Nona al cable request for SAM
search received by NPIC from O.A.
f. 1600, 6 September 1967 - Go-No-Go briefing attended by
NPIC. Overlay of coverage searched was provided OSA.
to OSA. Copy attached as Tab 1. - /
e, 1224, 6 September 1967 - Results of search sent b cable
24 hours, No furti'er.search was required. y .
g. 0215, 7 Se :ember 1967 - Mission alerted and dela ed
h. 1400, 7 September 1967 - Second Go-No-Ga briefirz at erode
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by NP1:C.
I. U300 September 1967 NPIC advised by
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,in personnel to check area. of shoot down for SAM site.
COSA) of shoot doi,m and requesting that NPIC call
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after receipt of news of the 8 September shootdown, OSA
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asked NPIC to undertake a new search of areas believed to be related to
the incident. NPIC has completed this renewed search and remains unable
to identify a SAM site in the specified areas,
4, r ^a h used for this search. was from a KH-4 mission and
t the
is dated The scale and resolution may preven
Center's en . -ca z M. This would be particularly true if
deceptive measures such as camouflage were employed to conceal or other-
wise disrupt a visible pattern. It is of course, possible that a SAM
position was deployed some time after the date of latest 25X1.
coverage.
hould lee ;ode clear. The Chinese Corr nunist SAM site
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is unlike the Soviet or Cuban.. It lacks fixed signatures Meager SAM
resources are deployed with great mobility. Identification of a Chi.Com SAM
site in photography, particularly at M-4 type of resolution is difficult.
Mobility means that a SAM site, spotted as each and seen to be operational
one day,, may be vacant the next.
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circled areas have been thoroughly searched
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by two separate teams, each taring having; searched the entire area. The
smaller circled area has been thoroughly searched four times', each time,
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A. C297 CANNED ROUTE 1058)
B. 1200L 6 SEPT
C. SHANGHAI SAM, SITES 13-36 AND A-02 ARE LOCATED WITHIN 0 Nei OF Tx25X1
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INDICATED ON THE PHOTO COVERAGE a
WAS OBSERVED WITHIN S0 NM OF THE CANNED ROUTE OWING SEARCH
OPERATIONS CONDUCTED IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING RECEIPT OF THE MOST
RECENT PHOTOGRAPHY.
Irv PHOTOGRAPHIC MISSIONS WHICH HAVE 10 PERCENT OR LESS CLOUD COVER ,.:
ONLY ARE PLOTTED ON THE PHOTO COVERAGE OVERLAY FORWARDED UNDER
SEPARATE COVER. HOWEVER, ALL PHOTOGRAPHY IS SEARCHED TO THE
BEST OF OUR ABILITY. A SEARCH OFTHE AREA WITHIN A 50 NM RADIUS
OF THE FOLLOWING POINTS HAS.-,BEEN COMPLETED WITH NEGATIVE -RESULTS
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SHANGHAI 3.14N 12123E (SEE "C" ABOVE)
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CHIA HSING.', S044N 120 2E
LU CHI AO 2834N 12125E
LIEN CHIANG 2614N 31.s'3OE
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LUNG CTIEN THESE POINTS ARE ALSO INDICATED ON THE PHOTO COVERAGE
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OSI ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT SAM THREAT
1. We believe that the Chinese have fielded at least
one, possibly two modified versions of the SA-2 system,
although the available evidence
suggests that as many as three separate ChiCom versions may
exist. All versions appear to employ substantially the same
missile -- the Guideline Mod I and a Chinese production copy
of it All the om modifications have been observed in
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1. A NEWLa IDENTIFIED PROBABLE SA--2 S E IS LOCATED AT
IRFIrELD , CHINA', p AT 30--A2-445N I. 35E I APPPOX MY7^TL d LY 4 t,~ CAq
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2. THE SITE T"-' LOCAsED AT THE NORTHEAST END OF THE AI IF i:E i.,'
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AND AROUND EXISIT1NG AIRCRAFT Rs VETMENTS., TWO LAUNCH
APPARENTLY BEEN INTERSPERSED AMONG THE AIRCRAFT REVETMENTS,, t.!N aDENT --
FIED EQUIPMENT IS VISIBLE IN THESE TWO P,'OSI:TIONS. Sin ~~`;rs"psy A4. rRCRAFT
REVETtMENTS IN WHICH UNIDENTIFIED EQUIPMENT IS VISIBLE MAY tiLSj REP-
LAUNCH POSITIONS AND/OR STORAGE POINTS FOR ASSOCIATED EQUIP-
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34 ON THE HARD SURFACED RUNWAY SERVING THE AIRCRAFT REVETMENTS,
AND CENT RALLY-LOCATED W IT H RESPECT TO '.t; HE:M. i HERE IS UN IDENTI.F 1ED
EQUIPMENT ARRANGED IN T HE L-SHAPED PAT TERN TYPICAL OF THE GUIDANCE
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AREA AT C1' INESE N S~rT ESe A POSSIBLE VEHICLE PARK WHICH MIA Y' ALSO B .
ASSOCIATED IS ?DJACam.IN! TO THE TAXIWAY.
THIS AC IW"IT - CAN Ds, Oi S.:F~VED FOR THE FIRS! TINE ON
AND WIN] BE NE fir :3'DI
IT W A S LAST OBSERVED
5 A TO DATE q }3E COVERAGE OF THIS SITE IS LIMITED TO S iAL..L-SCPLE
KH-4 PHOTOGRAPHY OF FAIR QUALITY,
THE SITE CONFIGURATION CANNOT 3D}E1ti IN"
ITLEY BE DETERMINED AT THIS 1111f IT DOES NOT CONFORM TO USUAL SA-2
PATTERNS?q BUT BEARS SOME SIMILARITY TO XUANG.,CHOU SA-2 SAM SITE
B27-2, AS OBSERVED
6. THIS IDENTIFICATION IS CONCURRED-'".1N BY NPIC.
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