CABLE FROM (Sanitized) TO PRIORITY (Sanitized) INFO (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00836R000100040123-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: June 28, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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IDEALIST COMMO INTEL LIFE SUPPORT LOGS
1. ASR 100 RADIO IN SEAT PACK WASStXPOSED TO SALT WATER WHEN THE
SEAT KIT VENT INTO THE WATER AT THE TIME OF EJECTION. TEAR IN RUCK
SACK RESULTED FROM IMPACT DAMAGE, WHEN SEAT KIT STRUCK WATER, SALT
WATER EXPOSURE ACTUALLY EXISTED FROM TIME OF ACCIDENT.
2. ASR 100 RADIO TOTALLY INOPERATIVE. EXTENSIVE CORROSION WAS
FOUND IN BATTERY COMPARTMENT AND ALSO WITHIN THE RADIO ITSELF WHEN
INSPECTED BY COMMO PERSONNEL HERE,
;t. RUCK SACK TEAR IS NOT THE CRITICAL PROBLEM HERE, SINCE EXTENSIVE
EXPOSURE TO WATER IS THE RULE IN ANY DITCHING OR BAILOUT WHERE PILOT
MUST LAND IN WATER AND FXIST IN LIFE RAFT.
4. RADIO BEING RETURNED TO HQ FOR EVALUATION.
5. ASR 100 RADIO IS UNSATISFACTORY FOR SEAT KIT USE IN ITS PRESENT
CONFIGURATION WITHOUT WATERPROOFING.
6. RECOMMEND ASR 100 RADIO BE WATERPROOFED, SUCH WATERPROOFING
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T 0 P S E C R E T IN63762
MUST EF ABLF TO WITHSTAND DECOMPRESSION TO PRESSURE ALTITUDE OF AT LEAST
100,000 FT.
7. AS INTERIM MEASURE PENDING ACCEPTABLE FIX ON ASP 100 RECOMMEND
USE OF URC-10 RADIO IN SEAT KITS. ONLY URCa4?S PRESFNTLY AVAILARLF
THIS STATION. WILL REQUIRE 12 URC-10'S.
TOP S E C R E T TOR: 2807?5Z JUN 66
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