CABLE TO AIG NINE SEVEN SIX FROM NPIC WASH DC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A001200010006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 28, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM NPIC WASH DC
TO AIG NINE SEVEN SIX
RUEKDA/DIA PROD CENTER
RUEKDA/NIC WASH DC
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Co N F I D E N T I A L
CITE NPIC 6355.
REF A: NPIC 6151 DIG 230033Z, DEC 65
REF B: NPIC INTELLIGENCE BOARD K-6831 (12/65)
REF C:
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1. PRELIMINARY SCAN BY NPIC OF MISSION TROJAN HORSE D
(7013) OF 20 JANUARY 1966 REVEALS VEHICLE TRACKS EXTENDIN
FROM CHAVANE AIRFIELD AT 152ON 19703E (UT!ti' Y'3214969) TO I
10710E (UTM YB354644), WHERE THEY DISAPPEAR INTO A HEAVIL
AREA. THE TRACKS FOLLOW THE ALIGNMENT OF THE NEW TRAIL CONSTR tll
ACTIVITY REPORTED IN REF A AND DEPICTED ON REF B. NO TRACKS WERE
OBSERVED IN THE VICINITY OF THE SOUTHERN TERMINUS ON
(REF C). ALTHOUGH THIS IS THE SOUTHERNMOST CONFIRMED EXTENSION OF
VEHICLE TRACKS BY NPIC9 A TRAIL OR ROAD IS INTERMITTENTLY OBSERVED
THROUGH DENSE TREE COVER TO 1457N 10711E (UTM YD364543), GENERALLY
PARALLELING THE WESTERN BANK OF THE XE KAMAN (RIVER). THERE IS
NO VISIBLE RIVER CROSSING IN THIS AREA, HOWEVER, A WELL USED TRAIL
EXTENDS GENERALLY SOUTH FROM THE OPPOSITE BANK TO 1452N 10711E
(UFM YB363458). POSSIBLE VEHICLE TRACKS ARE OBSERVED CROSSING THE
Declassification Review by
NGA/DoD
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TRAItAPPROXIMATELY 1000 METERS NOOF THIS POINT. THE TRAIL
CONTINUES GENERALLY SOUTHEAST TO THE LIMITS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
AT 1450N lt75E (UTM Y5427420).
2. THIS TRAIL WAS OBSERVED ON REF C) TO
CONTINUE TO 1446N 1071SE (UTM Y$477352); THEN GENERALLY SOUTHWEST
TO 1445N 10716E (UTM Y9453316); AND THEN GENERALLY SOUTHEAST TO
143" 10721E (UTM YB535218), APPROXIMATELY 7 NM FROM THE CAMBODIA
BORDER IN THE TRI-BORDER AREA.
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C O N F I D E N T I A L
MAP REF: UTM COORDINATES FROM AMS SERIES L7012, SHEETS 64561,
6455I, 6455II, 64551V, 6456III
GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES FROM USATC SERIES 200, SHEETS
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