“Headquarters”25 pages
- p. 22 …Air Force headquarters soon approved Martin's proposal to modify the B-57 and was very…
- p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
- p. 55 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 2
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The Matomic Building
total of 357 personnel divided among project headquarters…
- p. 56 …until it moved into the new CIA Headquarters building at Langley in March 1962. The final…
- p. 73 …On 3 August 1955, Dulles and Twining met at SAC headquarters in Omaha to sign the…
- p. 85 …Frequent flights were also necessary to bring in supplies and visitors from contractors and headquarters. Therefore…
- p. 102 …U-2 project officer, the Air Force Headquarters project officer, and NACA's top official, Dr…
- p. 107 …did not have to report to higher headquarters. WRSP-1, known within the Agency as Detachment…
- p. 117 …Late on the evening of 3 July, Bissell went to project headquarters in the Matomic Building…
- p. 127 …The PARAMOUNT Committee worked inside PID headquarters in the Steuart Building. Composed of members from CIA…
- p. 128 …Lundahl and Reber flew from the United Kingdom to US Air Force Europe headquarters in Wiesbaden…
- p. 138 …later and promptly reported the conversation to headquarters. When details of Vito's close call reached…
- p. 153 …of Detachment A achieved excellent results, project headquarters had already decided that Western Europe was not…
- p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
- p. 191 …commander at Adana, to Air Force Europe headquarters, to replace the cover story that had been…
- p. 194 …Because the new government had not been briefed on the U-2, Project Headquarters refused to…
- p. 205 …its own building to the new CIA Headquarters at Langley. Soon afterward, Col. Stanley W. Beerli…
- p. 233 …On 6 June 1960, project headquarters decided on a phased-out withdrawal of Detachment C between…
- p. 235 …Airport, the pilot reported the incident to Headquarters. The Office of Security immediately contacted the Pennsylvania…
- p. 312 …Project headquarters therefore began preparing contingency plans (Project SKYLARK) for the possible employment of OXCART over…
- p. 319 …To ensure secure communications between Headquarters and Kadena.
A typical mission over North Vietnam required refueling…
- p. 323 …Project headquarters informed Deputy Defense Secretary Vance on 10 January 1967 that the A-12s would…
- p. 324 …President Johnson confirmed this decision on 21 May. $ ^{69} $
Project headquarters selected 8 June 1968 as…
- p. 334 …Air Force personnel served at all levels of the reconnaissance program, from project headquarters to the…
- p. 365 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (Top Secret Codeword).
Interview with…
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Chapter 5
Lhasa, Tibet, November 1959
Although the plane was equipped with a camera, it carried no film and did not have a full load of fuel, which made it considerably lighter than an operational U-2C. As a result, the plane reached 76,400 feet—the highest altitude achieved by any of the original U-2 aircraft. In the process, however, the aircraft consumed more fuel than was called for in the test flight plan, causing the engine to flame out during the return to base. The pilot then made an emergency wheels-up landing at a glider-club strip near Fujisawa, south of Atsugi.
The crash did not cause any injuries or serious damage to the aircraft, but it did bring unwanted publicity to the U-2 program. Much of the publicity resulted from the actions of Detachment C's security unit, whose conspicuous Hawaiian shirts and large pistols drew the