SUBJECT: ANALYSIS OF U-2 PHOTOGRAPHY ACQUIRED OVER SOUTHEAST ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000500080040-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 31, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT: Analysis of U-2 Photography Acquired Over Southeast Asia
TO: Director,
National Photographic Interpretation Center (C)
1. The Defense Intelligence Agency has been directed by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to accomplish a comprehensive analysis of the
Communist logistic net in Southeast Asia. This study, although
incorporating many sources of intelligence, is to be based primarily
on data resulting from the increased U-2 surveillance effort presently
under way in that area.
2. The DIA Production Center will be charged with the responsibility
for assessing specific routes and structures and for evaluating the
entire logistic net. In addition, an evaluation will be made of
traffic levels observed during the current period of increased surveil-
lance. With respect to this latter requirement, it is requested that
NPIC review the U-2 photography acquired to date and prepare machine
tabulations of traffic levels observed to include numbers and types of
vehicles, direction of movement, and route sectors covered. Such
tabulations will be employed by DIA in the development of its overall
assessment. It is my understanding that the parameters for such an
effort have already been discussed with members of your staff, and that
a formal request is presently being submitted through the Advisory
Committee channel.
.3. The excellent cooperation we have already received in support of the
Hamlet Survey is most appreciated. The ingenuity demonstrated by members
of NPIC in reducing this enormous task to manageable proportions has
permitted the realization of much more responsive and timely completion
target dates. This effort demonstrates again that NPIC has developed
into a most valued and competent element of the intelligence community.
S. B. FRANKEL
Rear Admiral, USN
Chief of Staff
DIA review(s) completed.
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