CABLE TO RUCSBR/SAC OFFUTT AFB OMAHA NEB FROM CIA WASHDC

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FM CIA WASHDC
TO RUCSBR/SAC OFFUTT AFB, OMAHA, NEB
1963 JUL 2322362
RUCVAB/4080TH STRAT WG, OL 19, BARKSDALE AFB, LA
RUEAHQ/DIAXX
RUECYG/NAVY PIC
RUWGAA/HQS 2ND AF BARKSDALE, LA
DA GRNC
BT
S E C R E T CITE CIA-Z-771
FOR DI, BRASS KNOB9 DOCR, DM 4, DIM, SAC HQS, OMAHA. FROM NATIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
1. CAMERA B S WAS USED IN MISSION 3668 FLOWN ON 20 JULY 1963;
PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY BARKSDALE.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVE:
A. THE RESOLUTION IS FAIR, BEING SOMEWHAT DEGRADED BY
HEAVY GROUND HAZE. THE EXPOSURE IS ADEQUATE.
B. 9R SIDE: HANDLING MARKS ARE COMMON ON ALL FRAMES
IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO A HEAT SPLICE.
C. 9L SIDE: INBOARD ROLLER CHATTER IS CONTINUOUS THROUGHOUT THE
MISSION. MINOR OUTBOARD EDGE STATIC APPEARS INTERMITTENTLY.
MINUS DENSITY DOTS, 0.93" FROM, AND PARALLEL TO, THE OUTBOARD
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EDGE APPEAR AT INTERVALS OF 1.55". A WAVERING MINUS DENSITY
STREAK, APPROXIMATELY 0.1" WIDE, BEGINS ON FRAME 874 AND CONTINUES
THROUGH 1183. THIS STREAK, WHICH IS SOMETIMES BROKEN AND
SOMETIMES ASSOCIATED WITH SMALL COMET-SHAPED IMAGERY TRAILING
FROM IT, IS 0.93" FROM, AND PARALLEL TO, THE OUTBOARD EDGE.
AN EMULSION SCRATCH OF VARYING INTENSITY AND BROKEN AT ERRATIC
INTERVALS, 2.2" FROM, AND PARALLEL TO, THE INBOARD EDGE 'BEG INS
ON FRAME 1089 AND BECOMES GRADUALLY MORE SEVERE AND THEN BEGINS
FADING AND DISAPPEARS BY FRAME 1200.
D. INK SPOTS, AND EVIDENCE OF INK HAVING BEEN CLEANED OFF9
IS COMMON THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. PROCESSING STREAKS ARE
CONTINUOUS FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST FRAME. ALL TITLING IS
PRINTED 180 DEGREES FROM NORMAL PROCEDURE. ALL HEAT SPLICES
HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO THE EMULSION SIDE.
E. THERE WERE NO MAJOR CAMERA OR PROCESSING MALFUNCTIONS.
3. POSITIVE:
A. PI SUITABILITY IS FAIR WITH DEGRADATION DUE PRIMARILY
TO HAZE. THE POSITIVES WERE SLIGHTLY OVEREXPOSED AND WERE
DEGRADED BY MANY PROCESSING STREAKS.
B. CLOUDS OBSCURE OR IMPAIR APPROXIMATELY 95 PERCENT OF
THE MISSION.
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