MAMBERE RIVER BRIDGE/DIAMOND PROSPECTING AND MINING/BANGUI AIRPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R002000400001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 22, 1955
• Content Type: FORM

Approved For Release 1999/09/24: CIA-RDP83-00423R0020004
PRESENTATION FORM FOR GRAPHIC MATERIAL
DATE
(Submit to HQ-OO/C in triplicate with process sheet attached)
22 July 19 5 5
DIST:, ORIG- GRAPHICS; DUPL-CASE FILE; TRIPL- SOURCE FILE; QUAD- FO RECORD
GIFT lJ LOAN
AREA
French Equatorial Africa
SUBJECT
Mambere River and Prospecting and Mining/Baneui A ort
NUMBER OF ITEMS A TE ORY (Stilt photographs, negatives, or slides) 16
DATE OF EXPOSURE
CHECK CLASSIFICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS WHEN SEPARATED FROM THIS FORM. (The classification need not be the same.)
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IS SOURCE APT TO MAKE ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL AVAILABLE? = Yes ? No QR
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MAY SOURCE'S NAME BE REVEALED TO GRAPHICS REGISTER, OCD, IF REQUIRED? Yes No 4
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DESCRIPTION OF MATERIAL 17 A- i
1. Steel highway bridge over Mambere river near Bania [N 4-00 X E 16.072,
looking up-stream. Length of bridge about 100 yds.
2. Diamond prospecting, Berberati (N 4-16 X E 15-462area: hand washing
alluvial samples.
3. Diamond prospecting, Berberati area: small portable washing plant.
4. Diamond placer mining, Berberati area: hand operated wooden jig.
5. Diamond placer mining, Berberati area: small stationary washing plant.
6. Diamond placer mining, Cie. MinAre Oubangi-Orientale washing plant at Lopo.
7. Diamond placer mining, tailings at Cie.`Minie"re Oubangi-Orientale washing
plant at Lopo.
8. Diamond placer mining, Berberati area: native laborers..
9/10. Diamond placer mining, Berberati area: Hand excavations and operations.
11/14. Diamond placer mining, Berberati area: drag line excavations. 13 and 14
show conveyor belts in operation.
15/16. Bangui (N 4-22 X E 18-352 airport: looking south toward hangar.
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