Three dimensional model calculations with the NASA/GSFC chemistry and transport model have been designed to consider the impact of heterogeneous processes occurring on polar stratopsheric clouds (PSC's) in the Arctic vortex on the HCl distribution. By examining the HCL concentration for a calculation with PSC's relative to a calculation with gas phase chemistry only, we infer the impact polar processing on reactive chlorine species at middle latitudes. Results from the chemistry and transport model reproduce basic features of the ClO measurements [Toohey et al., 1991>, which were made on the ferry flights of the ER-2 from Stavanger, Norway to Moffett Field, California via Wallops Island, Virginia on February 20 and 21, 1989. The model indicates that perturbed air which is contained within the polar vortex during winter is not homogeneously mixed, and that the ferry flights were made through air with the largest conversion of HCL to reactive chlorine that is seen at middle latitudes. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1991