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Declassified 341st SMW unit histories

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This Black Vault release contains the Air Force's 2001 response from the 341st Space Wing FOIA office at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, to a request about the 16 March 1967 Echo Flight missile shutdown, with excerpts from 341st Strategic Missile Wing histories covering 1967 to early 1968. The histories say all ten Echo Flight launch facilities lost strategic alert almost simultaneously. Investigators could not find a logical cause and found rumors of UFOs near Echo Flight to be unfounded.

  • p. 3 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS 341ST SPACE WING (AFSPC) 341 CS/SCBR (FOIA) 30 73d…
  • p. 7 Project How Now (Service Star), the testing of Mark 5 re- entry vehicles by higher headquarters…
  • p. 8 …the 341st SMW was advised that SAC Headquarters had called in OOAMA support for a complete…
  • p. 9 …the 341st SMW was advised that SAC Headquarters had called in OOAMA support for a complete…
  • p. 23 …report for February is submitted through your headquarters for Hq SAC (DM7B) in accordance with paragraph…
  • p. 24 …THIS HEADQUARTERS (DOFI, AND DM7B) WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THE TIME OF TEST. IF SHUTDOWNS OCCUR…
  • p. 25 …recommendations for improvement of local or higher headquarters procedures or directives. his & his man .. ROSS E…
  • p. 28 …IS CAUSE FOR GRAVE CONCERN TO THIS HEADQUARTERS. WE MUST HAVE AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS TO…
  • p. 47 …Flight are still be conducted by higher headquarters and the contractors. The results of all these…
  • p. 53 …This proposal was sent to Headquarters, SAC for concurrence. 155 (U) Headquarters, SAC in a message…
  • p. 55 …THIS HEADQUARTERS WILL CONTINUE TO ADVISE YOU OF OGAMA'S TEST PROGRAM AS TEST RESULTS AND…
  • p. 84 there was a power transfer. Headquarters, 15th AF ordered a test to determine if the channel…
  • p. 86 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Headquarters 341st Strategic Missile Wing (SAC) Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana…
  • p. 88 …Problems/Deficiencies Requiring Higher Headquarters Action: None B D Oralh C o l JOHN W CARROLL…

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This volume is classified to conform to the classification of the information in the source documents. It will be handled in accordance with the provisions of AFR 205-1, as amended.

This volume contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws (Title 18, U.S.C., sections 793 and 794), the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.

This volume has been placed in downgrading group 3, which is the highest downgrade group assigned to the information in the source documents. The historians analysis and consolidation of information from many sources, which individually may have a lower downgrade provisions, results in a synthesis which may have a wider implication than the material on which it is based. Therefore, individual downgrade instructions for each paragraph are not included, and all portions of this volume will be handled under the overall downgrading group.

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