Trip Report - Automatic Photographic Encipherment Technique Study, (Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-02820A000900010095-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: March 26, 1963
• Content Type: TRIP

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
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DATE: 26 March 1963
SUBJECT: Trip Report - Automatic Photo ?a hic Encipherment Technique
Study,
1. Project Description:
This task is to provide a feasibility study
matic photographic encipherment technique.
2. Contractual Information:
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a. Initial Cost:
b. Initiation Date: 26 June 1962
c. Completion Date: 26 March 1963
d. Deliverable Items: Study
Date of Meeting: 8 March 1963
4+. Place of Meeting: ?
5. Persons Attending:
Agency
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6. Contractor's Performance:
a. On Schedule and Expected to Remain So: No
b. Within Obligated Funds and Expected to Remain So: Yes
c. Satisfactory Technical Progress: Yes
7. Project Status:
In the effort to finish up T.O. #1 personnel has been
diverted from T.O. J2 with the result that progress was slow
and the program is now behind schedule. Farther as the
study probed deeper into the problem more questions than
answers were found. In a review of the status of the project
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it was determined that the most profitable procedure would
be to extend the investigation for about another year before
we attempt to build any hardware.
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may be necessary to extend the study for another year.
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