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This CIA memorandum for the record, dated 23 February 1967 and written by the Chief of NPIC's Technical Intelligence Division, describes a 20 February 1967 visit by Dr. E.U. Condon and members of his University of Colorado UFO study team to NPIC. NPIC agreed to give only technical photogrammetric help, with no written reports or conclusions, and no reference to CIA. The group received briefings on photogrammetry, microdensitometry and analysis of UFO photographs.
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# Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/18 : CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100004-1 SUBJECT: Visit of Dr. Condon to NPIC, 20 February 1967 will be available to assist Dr. Condon by performing work of a photogrammetric nature, such as attemptong to measure objects imaged on photographs that may be part of Dr. Condon's analysis. Work performed by NPIC will be strictly of a technical nature using services and equipment generally not available elsewhere. 5. Following this brief discussion in Mr. Lundahl's office the group adjourned to the TID conference room where a series of briefings was presented to Dr. Condon and his group. Following a short introduction by the following briefings were presented: a. General discussion of photogrammetry, including definition, terminology and, in general, what photogrammetry is and what it can do. presented this discussion. b. followed 50X1 with a presentation of the analysis he had been conducting on UFO photography furnished NPIC by Dr. Rachford. 50X1 discussion was of a general nature and outlined the problems he had encountered because of lack of basic information, such as camera focal length, make of camera, unspecified enlargements, etc. c. then gave a general discussion 50X1 on the microdensitometer and its application to image analysis. d. Lt/Col. Dan Lufkin (TDS) followed this with a presentation on isodensitometer experiments he has been conducting. e. then escorted the group into the new clean area where they viewed and discussed the isodensitometer and the new Mann Microdensitometer. f. Returning to the conference room, briefed the group on measuring instruments used in TID and followed by a general presentation on the success and failure TID had experienced in trying to measure objects imaged on the second UFO project assigned TID. Following this discussion then conducted the group into the instrument area where the Point Transfer Device, Mann 880 Comparator, the Benson-Lehner Plotter and the NRI were viewed by the group. ## SECRET
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.