NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER OPERATION PINWHEEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B00832R000100020042-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2006
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: February 23, 1966
• Content Type: REGULATION

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NPIC NOTICE
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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
OPERATION PINWHEEL
SECURITY
23 February 1966
A new reconnaissance system operation in the Far East known as
Operation PINWHEEL may be activated in the near future. Security
procedures for the handling, titling and classification of the
resulting end products will be as follows:
1. All products and materials will be handled within the
TALENT Control System on a strict need-to-know basis and will
be made available only to those individuals who possess a
TALENT clearance.
2. The original film negatives, as well as all reproductions
thereof, will be titled with the following classification and code-
word on each frame: "TOP SECRET
30 Immediate readout reports will be identified as
reports. Such reports and others derived from this photography
will also be handled in the TALENT Control System and bear the
following classification and codeword: "TOP SECRET
4. The camera information, some of which was formerly
identified as T-6 material, will be classified as TOP SECRET
and handled in the TALENT Control System on a restricted basis.
This information is to be made available only to those indi-
viduals who require the information to accomplish PI and
photogrammetric analysis or to develop the equipment necessary
to handle or process the end product.
S. The end product of Operation PINWHEEL will not be released
to any foreign government unless authorized by USIB.
6. There will be no sanitization of the end product unless
approved by COMOR. Such requests are to be submitted in writing
to the TCO/NPIC so that he may enter them on the agenda of COMORO
If so approypd, applicable provisions'of the COMOR Sanitization
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TICE
NO. 10-23-23
SECURITY
23 February 1966
Manual will be followed for the purpose of sanitizing the product
for intelligence target publications, maps, charts and target
materials. Sanitization or decontrol of the photography itself
is not authorized.
7. When it is essential that the source of the PINWHEEL end.
product be revealed, it is permissible to explain it as follows
to TALENT cleared personnel only:
"The collection vehicle for TOP SECRET end products
is an A-11 type aircraft which operates at altitudes in
excess of 70,000 feet at sustained speeds of Mach 3.
You are cautioned that no statement or discussion of the
use of this aircraft in a reconnaissance role will be
made to anyone not cleared for TALENT and not having a
'must know'."
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NPIC/MSS
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NPIC/SS
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- NPIC/OS
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NPIC/PAG
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NPIC/PDS
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NPIC/PSD
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NPIC/CSD
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NPIC/PD
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- NPIC/IPD
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NPIC/TID
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- CIA/IAD (NPIC)
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NPIC/SS/SB
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DIAXX-4 (NPIC)
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DIA/DIAAP-1P DETACH
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