CABLE TO RUCSG/SAC OFFUTT AFB OMAHA NEB FROM NPIC WASH DC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A001600010026-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2008
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: September 27, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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15TH AF (FOR DI), SAC (FOR DIM/GLASS LAMP/DOORs DM 4) 2D AF
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Declassification Review by
NGA/DoD
1 CAMERA 8.23 WAS USED IN MISSION 8124 FLOWN ON 23
SEPTEMBER 1966. PROCESSING WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY BARKSDALE AFB.
2. ORIGINAL NEGATIVES
A THE EXPOSURE WAS ADEQUATE AT THE START OF THE MISSION
BUT SLIGHTLY OVEREXPOSED AT THE END. THE RESOLUTION PATTERN OF. --1-F
THIS MISSION 810 NOT APPEAR CHARACTERISTIC IN NATURE. THE BEST ,
RESOLUTION IS PRESENT ACROSSS THE NON-DATA BLOCK END OF THE
FORMAT ON BOTH THE 9R AND 9L SIDES. AT MIDFRAME f ALONG THE MAJOR '. ivanca
AXIS, THE RESOLUTION IS BETTER AT THE OUTBOARD (TITLED) EDGE
THAN AT THE INBOARD EDGE OF BOTH THE 9R AND 9L PHOTOGRAPHY.
THE AREA AT THE INBOARD EDGE DATA BLOCK END APPEARS TO BE
SLIGHTLY OUT-OF-FOCUS. ALTHOUGH THE DEGREE OF DEGRADATION IS
SLIGHT IN THE VERTICAL POSITION IT IS QUITE NOTICEABLE IN THE
1L AND 1R POSITIONS. IN THE IL AND IR POSITIONS THE IMAGERY
AT THE INBOARD DATA BLOCK CORNER APPEARS TO BE SMEARED ABOUT
THE ROLL AXIS BUT APPEARS SHARP (NOT SMEARED) AT THE SUPPLY
AND OUTBOARD END OF THE FRAME. THE FOCUS DEGRADATION IS NOT
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AS SEVERE IN THE 2L AND 2R POSITIONS. THE BUT-OF-FOCUS CON-
DITION DEBUADES THE IMAGERY AS DESCR ED BUT THE PHOTOGRAPHY
IS STILL QUITE USABLE. THOSE PORTIONS OF THE FRAMES WHERE THE
FOCUS APPEARS GOOD CONTAIN SOME OF THE BEST QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHY
PRODUCED BY THIS CAMERA. THE TRANSITION FROM GOOD TO POORER
FOCUS IS GRADUAL RATHER THAN BEING A SHARP LINE OF DEMARCATION.
BOTH THE SI. AND THE 91t SIDES ARE SIMILARLY AFFECTED BY THIS
ANOMALY. THE INBOARD EDGE, MID-FRAME, IS NOT THE POINT OF BEST
FOCUS ASy IT `SHOWL*.
B. 9R SIDES - A MINUS DENSITY BAND ONE INCH WIDE IS
PRESENT ACROSS THE MINOR AXIS AT THE SUPPLY END OF FRAME 0001.
TWO MINUS DENSITY STREAKS APPEAR ACROSS THE MINOR AXIS OF THE
FORMATS 7.0 AND 7.3 INCHES FROM THE SUPPLY EDGE OF FRAME 0002.
A ROW OF MINUS DENSITY DOTS SPACED 1.5 INCHES APART APPEAR 1.4
INCHES FROM THE INBOARD EDGE AND A SECOND ROW WITH DOTS SPACED
22 INCHES APART APPEAR 2.0 INCHES FROM THE INBOARD EDGE
IN FRAMES 0001 AND 0002. A PLUS DENSITY AREA OF FOG APPROX-
IMATELY ONE INCH BY 2.5 INCHES APPEARS 3 INCHES FROM THE SUPPLY
EDGE AND 2 INCHES FROM THE INBOARD EDGE OF THE FORMAT. THIS
AREA IS PRESENT IN FRAMES 0007, 0019, 0023 AND 0027 WHICH ARE
ALL IL POSITIONS. THE AREA WAS PROBABLY CAUSED BY A REFLECTION
WITHIN THE CAMERA AND/OR'CAMERA STATION, MOST PROBABLY ON THE
WINDOW. A MANUFACTURER'S SPLICE IS PRESENT IN FRAME 0235. AN
ULTRASONIC SPLICE APPEARS BETWEEN FRAMES 0910 AND 0911. A PLUS
DENSITY BAND VARYING BETWEEN 0.25 AND 0.50 INCH WIDE IS PRESENT
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ACR *I* =, AXIS OF FRAME 1962 AND 0,75 INCH FROM THE
SUPPLY EDGE OF TA 'FRAME THIS PLUS DENSITY WAS PROBABLY
CAUSED BY THE CAMERA-OFF AFTER FRAME 1963.
C. 9L "SIDES THE MATERIAL IS AFFECTED BY SEVERAL ROWS OF
MINUS DENSITY DOTS, THE DOTS ARE SPACED 1.7 INCHES APART WITHIN
EACH ROW, THESE ROWS BEING LOCATED 2.3 INCHES, 2.9 INCHES, 5.6
INCITES, AND 58 INCHES FROM THE INBOARDEDGE OF THE FILM. THE
ROW CLOSEST TO THE INBOARD EDGE IS PRESENT TO FRAME 00599 ALL
OTHER ROWS APPEAR ONLY ON THE FIRST 7 FRAMES OF THE MISSION.
A PLUS DENSITY STREAK APPROXIMATELY 0.1 INCH WIDE AND LOCATED
3.3 INCHES FROM THE INBOARD EDGE BEGINS IN FRAME 1757. THE
STREAK IS SLIGHTLY BIASED AND RUNS OFF THE INBOARD EDGE OF THE
FILM IN FRAME 1775. A FINE INTERMITTENT EMULSION SCRATCH IS
LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THIS PLUS DENSITY STREAK.
D BOTH SIDES: INBOARD AND OUTBOARD ROLLER CHATTER AND
INTERMITTENT EDGE STATIC ALONG BOTH FILM EDGES ARE PRESENT
THROUGHOUT THE MISSION. THE FIRST TITLED FRAMES IS 0001 AND
THE LAST TITLED FRAME IS 1963.
E. OTHER THAN THE SLIGHT FOCUS DEGRADATION, THERE WERE
NO MAJOR PROCESSING ANOMALIES OR CAMERA MALFUNCTIONS IN THIS
MISSION.
3 POSITIVE$
A. PI SUITABILITY IS GOOD AT THE NON-DATA BLOCK OUTBOARD
EDGE TO FAIR AT THE DATA BLOCK INBOARD EDGE.
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C. CLOUDS DEGRADE 02 OBSCURE APPROXIMATELY 20 PERCENT
OF THIS MISSION.
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