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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMCVED
HEADCUARTERS
TASK GROUP 7,7
JOINT TLSK FORCE SEVEN
APO 197 (11O") 6/o PCSTLASTER
SAN FIRUNCISCO, CALIFCANIA
312
JF. L944
11 Mareh 1954
Cars nnerr, Insk Groun 7.4
Joint Task Force Seven
£P0 197, c/n Postraster
Sen Fresncisco, Caliternic
Desr
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Thenk you fer your lcttcr of 3 lorch
BUVO sarpliny :ission on’? sus; cstions“-s
recor, you ury bo interosto’ in the 2ate.
scaiyple * ontericl collected’ by the airernft
1954 recucstin: ccrmonts cn tho
to the :dssions te come. Fer tho
in appen ix I which represent the
in BRAVO, Ycu will note that
only two cireraft returned with less than 10 fissions,
This achicvun:cnt is
emphasize Sy tho fact that cn IKE Shot only four cf tho twelve sauplincz
F84G cireraft returned with nero than 101° fissicns, while in KING Shct,
nene of then collecte! this cmcunt.
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I wish to reply to your specific questcns as follows:
Tho RB~36 wes in :csiticn at 60 noutical riles ct 130° eziruth
fru zcro point -n initicl position as rcqucstel by Preject 11.2 and a reed
to by Preject 9.1.
The pressure altitule was 37,500 fect rather than the
40,000 fort recuested,
b.
Apart fren multiple leyers cf intervenin: cirrus clout lyin:
in the benks in the scuthecst que rent, this pcsiticn satisficc the “i-
rectin: copability roquira:cnt.
O epproech te initial pesition st a
pressure altitude of 37,500 fect, wo wore flyinz in an“ out cf the tep of
the widdle cirrus leycr. iftor ecrpletin: the phote mission mancuver, wo
raze a2 180° turn (to tho risht) snd clinbc”® t 42,000 foot vrossure -ltitu’e.
ie cloarent the tep cf the cirrus by appsroxinatcly 1,000 fect turin: return
te apposition seuth cf zcre print ant ronezvcus with the reconnzaissnec
aircraft (Sniffers),
Threuchcut the tine recuire* te ve te this s-utheorly
positicn, cur view of the leteils cf the elvut bclew 60,000 fect was
chseure? by the censclitaticn cf the upper anc sittle Isyers of cirrus in
its vicinity. Theso circu istcnecs ccused us initiclly to evelucte the
prebale success cf the sci -plin.; rission cs very ror. The rission weuld
have beon a failure if the \B-36 hed not beon able finelly te find «
position unter the cverhanin: cleut fro which « relatively clcar vicw
of it lowor perticns coul* be w:rintainel. If the Sniffers hat spnrenchel
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