CIA File of the Day
Bird Camera Program
A 16 December 1975 memorandum for the record on the bird camera program. At a 4 December meeting it was decided to modify two cameras to use external battery packs so they could operate at faster shutter speeds and take pictures at least once or twice per second. Those cameras were to be flown on birds in mid-January to photograph Air Force resolution charts and calibrate image motion, bird altitude, and related factors.
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