LANGLEY TECHNICAL SECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02820A001200030035-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: April 29, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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LANGLEY TECHNICAL SECTION
I. Wire Unit
1. Main Signal Center
a. The preventive maintenance schedule for the month of May is
current's
b. The Terminal Relay ASR has been modified for low level keying
using R-20E relays. Drawings were made up for drafting.
c. The NPIC/OCR Cifax System has been reliable since it became
operational on 29 April 1966.
d. Engineering tests are being made on a low level circuit from
the Crypto Facility to the Primary Facility utilizing a
numbering module with a gold plated wiper switch. So far, the
test has been satisfactory.
2. Trouble Reports
Troubles reported and corrected in the Washington Area are
as follows:
a. Langley Signal Centers
1 Cryptographic Equipment
2Teletype and Miscellaneous Equipment
- 92
- 305
TOTAL: 397
b. Outside Area Signal Centers
(1) Cryptographic Equipment - 11
(2 Teletype and Miscellaneous Equipment - 26
TOTAL: 37
3? Installations
Installed a XSR half duplex in Room 3B0001, Headquarters
Building.
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1. Wire Unit (Continued)
4. Miscellaneous
Responded to a request fromOC-AD to repair a trouble on the
DOD's KW-7 circuit in
II. Electronic Unit
1. K1r-3 Program
a. Installations
(1) A Call-Director installation was completed in the offices
of the DCI and Mr.~
(2) A KY-3 with three extensions was installed at the DCI
residence, McLean, Va.
(3) Installed a Call-Director in 2D00, Headquarters Building.
(4) Completed a KY-3 installation in
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b. Trouble Reports
Eighty-two KY-3 sets are now operational. The following
reflects the troubles for the month:
(1) Set Troubles - 26 each
2 Distant End Troubles - 5 each
3 Operator Error - 12 each
(4)) Telephone Company Troubles - 25 each
TOTAL: 68 each
2.
CIA Cifax System
a.
b.
Four troubles were reported and corrected.
The State/CIA auto sync. units, which were installed last
month, have been trouble free.
3.
DCI/SO Very-High-Frequency Net
One trouble was reported and corrected.
4+. KY-5
Two troubles were reported and corrected.
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II.
Electronic Unit (Continued)
5.
Microwave
The air-conditioner in the Headquarters Microwave Room is
6.
being repaired. A new compressor is on order for the unit.
troubles have been encountered.
HY-2/JCG-13 Headquarters/Saigon Voice Circuit
No
a. The system has been trouble free during this reporting period.
b. Modified a tape recorder to record incoming and outgoing calls
on the circuit.
OVERTIME
A total of one hundred and fifty-three hours of overtime was worked
during this reporting period.
TSB SUPPLY SECTION
1. As of 25 May 1966 a total of approximately
expended.
236,339.19 was
For the period of 27 April through 25 May 1966 a total of
$36.,344.05 was spent covering 11 requisitions of 369 line items.
2. Field Requests
A total of 90 field requests consisting of 1229 line items were
processed. One thousand one hundred and fifty-seven line items
were shipped immediately for a 91.2%o average.
3. A procurement memo with drawings attached was sent to MSB ordering
up KY-3 spares for warehouse stock.
1. A list of HY-2 DCRP parts was recommended to OC-S for ordering.
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25X1A6a TECH ICAL SECTION
Overtime -
1. Staff Employees 32 Hours.
2. Contract Employees 0 Hoi.Lrs.
T & I UNIT
1. Fifty-seven transceivers were channalized this month.
r.r 2. Many discussions were held this month with
sults have been seen yet by T & I, but all of the mentioned equip-
ments are going to receive a high quality check when received by
T & I and are going to be rechecked after a twenty-four hour warm
up.
3.
Listed are some of the items of equipment processed this month:
Accepted
Re ected
Six Stoddart Field Intensity Test Sets
6
0
Twenty-six Delco 5300 Transceivers
26
0
Fourteen RS-50 Carrier Current Transceivers
13
1
Four Kel Coin SK-5 Transceiver/Recorders
2
2
Fifty-eight Kl;-8E Keyers
6
52
Forty-six RT-48 Transmitters
45
1
Eight TMC GPE-l Exciters
7
1
Sixty-seven Kel Corp. ASR-l00 Transceivers
61
6
Seventy HG-48A Generators
70
0
Five HRO Receivers
1
4
Fifty G.E. Porta Mobiles
47
3
Seventy-one Motorola Handie Talkies
52
19
Fourteen CEI Receivers, 30 - 300 MC
14
0
Twenty-five RR--9 Receivers
25
0
Ten G.E. Master Line Transceivers
10
0
Three Kahn LSSB-63-1A Exciters
0
3
Four ARC Transceivers
3
1
Forty-three RT/B-48A Transmitters
41
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band exciters, SBE-21s and PAL-350's and the apparent lack
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Accepted
Rejected
Fifty-eight BC-48A Battery Chargers
58
0
Twenty-eight Kahn RSSB-62-1B Converters
24
4
Nine RT-49 Transmitters
0
9
Three Motorola P-31 Transceivers
3
0
Nine SP-600 JX Receivers
0
9
Six hundred Hallicrafter HT-lC Transceivers
600
0
*Fifty Hallicrafter TR-20H Transceivers
50
0
IN-PINT INSPECTIONS
Company
Location
Equipment
Accepted
Re
t
d
jec
e
Type 1 Stations
5
0
Type 1 Stations
5
0
Type 1 Stations
3
0
8 PAC
0
0
1.
HF- 5 AM Transmitter
1
0
SBE-2A's
9
13
SBC-lA's
12
2
ELECTRONIC/TELETYPE REHAB UNIT
1. The Electronic Technicians processed one hundred ninety-one items
of PTI equipment, twenty-seven items on job orders, and twenty
items on repair requests.
2. There were no major pieces of teletype equipment processed this
month, but twenty-eight minor items were processed.
3. Approximately seventy man-hours were expended on teletype equip-
ment for the 8 PAC Project.
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3. One hundred eighty PRC-10 units were processed from C-5 stock
to C-1 stock.
CRYSTAL UNIT
The CR-78 and the CR-81 crystals for FTS stock have begun to
arrive. Indications are that delivery will be finished by August;
two months ahead of schedule.
Totals
Requisitions
Crystals
New Orders
66
2759
Orders Completed
56
189+
Backlog
14+
1344
Due In
8
813
ENGINEERING UNIT
1. All commercial literature for OC Standard Test Equipment Cata-
logues was delivered to the Drafting Unit for assembly.
2. The Quarterly Test Equipment Status List was revised, and two
changes were recommended.
Test Procedures for the BS/D-48 Power Supply and the ASR-100
Transceiver have been completed. The ASR-100 procedure will
be of little use to the field until additional ASR-100 Test Jigs
are supplied by
4. A TDY trip to Lis was com- 25X1A5a1
pleted on 20 May. The purpose of the trip was to inspect and
evaluate an Alignment Test Set for the ASR-100.
5. In a conversation with Mr. MMM
poration, it was pointed out that intends to go into an
extensive repackaging program over the next two years. Solid
state components will be emphasized up to a frequency value of
5 Gc. No actual dates were given, but evidently the program
is firm and has already been initiated.
1. Twenty-five pieces of test equipment were processed and returned
to service, and two pieces of equipment were processed for cargo.
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is evidently having a great deal of trouble with
our 1L1O Spectrum Analyzer. They have returned it three times,
and in every case it did not perform satisfactory. They loaned
us a new unit, but it did not work either. No solution has
been found to the problem as of this date.
3. The Frequency Standard, Error Expander, VLF Receiver, Distri-
bution Amplifier, and a Communications Receiver are mounted
in a nineteen inch rack located in the calibration room. The
next step will be to run coaxial cable to the Electronic
Counters in the Crystal Lab.
N4ECHAHICAL UNIT
1. The TIN-E-MITE fork lift from was 25X1A5a1
received and checked. It is presently being evaluated.
2. Four heads for use with the vacuum plater are about ninety per
cent completed.
POWER UNIT
i. The_ Tower power unit was checked out, and arrangements made
to check the system every two weeks.
2. Both Commo/Buda diesel trucks are now running normally. They
will be checked out on a routine basis from now on.
3. Operationally or visually checked ten power units this month
25X1A6b plus the usual minor inspections of small parts.
1. One hundred fifty-six debit vouchers totaling three hundred
twelve line items and seven cargo vouchers consisting of
twenty line items were processed this month.
25X1A5a1 2. Mr.
a Mincom H-ll Recorder.
visited the shop and checked
3. The work load this month was not at its previous high level, but
it is known that there is nine hundred pieces of communications
equipment due in.
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