CIA File of the Day
TCT Activities Regarding Bird Camera
A 5 February 1976 memorandum for the record on Technical Collection Team work on the bird camera between 5 January and 4 February 1976. On 12 January the first model of a new 16 mm camera was received and tested. Its frame rate was about one frame per second, with a ground footprint of about 50 by 90 feet at an altitude of 100 feet. The memo notes that the velocity of the bird is about 50 feet per second.
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