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- p. 6 …267
The Selection of the Lockheed Design... 270
Efforts To Reduce the A-12's Radar…
- p. 7 …319
Advances in Technology... 320
Cooperation With the Air Force... 321
Impact of the Overhead Reconnaissance…
- p. 11 …the CIA developed a successor to the U-2, the A-12 OXCART, but this advanced…
- p. 22 …retired from the Air Force to become the assistant director of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program…
- p. 32 …the development of advanced reconnaissance vehicles. One of the report's key recommendations called for the…
- p. 33 …between the developed and undeveloped nations. This aggressive Soviet foreign policy, combined with advances in nuclear…
- p. 36 …Because of advanced warning from either radar or agents inside British intelligence, the overflight did not…
- p. 58 …secrecy in the new project, Kelly Johnson placed it in Lockheed's Advanced Development facility at…
- p. 65 …His software algorithms made it possible to model lens designs and determine in advance the effects…
- p. 76 advanced gear for the U-2 pilots. David Clark expert Joseph Ruseckas then developed a complex…
- p. 111 …of Soviet advances in long-range bombers and missiles. The initial sighting of the new Soviet…
- p. 114 …Adenauer be informed in advance of US plans to overfly the Soviet Union from bases in…
- p. 152 …Saryshagan later became the center for the development of the Soviet Union's advanced antiballistic missile…
- p. 174 …concentrating on developing the more advanced solid-fueled missiles rather than increasing the number of obsolescent…
- p. 183 …if the Soviet SAMs received sufficient advanced warning, they posed a major threat to the U…
- p. 191 …the cover story that had been prepared and distributed in advance of the mission. The first…
- p. 235 …STPOLLY added the more advanced Lockheed P3A in 1963. Between 1955 and 1967, when the CIA…
- p. 236 supplying the Nationalist Chinese Government with the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft available, the U-2. The…
- p. 249 …The Defense Department feared that the loss of this device with its highly advanced traveling-wave…
- p. 250 Secret NOFORN
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## Advanced ECM Equipment for Detachment H
Demand for overhead photography of the…
- p. 252 …In addition, the Project TACKLE U-2s began receiving even more advanced ECM equipment. $ ^{60} $
- p. 265 …the result of technological advances. The initial order for eight of the new version of the…
- p. 266 …This camera was actually a very advanced version of the original B camera with a new…
- p. 282 …aircraft from the small inventory of its most advanced bomber. Even had the B-58B program…
- p. 295 …In fact, it was an advanced version of the highly reliable B camera developed for the…
- p. 296 …Prospective pilots had to be qualified in the most advanced fighters and be emotionally stable and…
- p. 307 …which he announced the successful development of an "advanced experimental jet aircraft, the A-11, which…
- p. 310 …It was now time to find work for the most advanced aircraft ever conceived and built…
- p. 321 …advanced aircraft ever built was to be put out to pasture. The abandonment of the OXCART…
- p. 325 …As a result, when the OXCART program ended in the summer of 1968, no more advanced…
- p. 326 …The most advanced aircraft of the 20th century had become an anachronism before it was ever…
- p. 333 …The OXCART is an even better example of the technological advances generated by the CIA's…
- p. 334 …the end of the usefulness of the world's most advanced aircraft; its offspring, the SR…
- p. 335 …Thus, the CIA sponsored the development of the world's most advanced aircraft—the OXCART—and…
- p. 352 …They believed that recent advances in the miniaturization of electronic technology would make possible the development…
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wanted the Nationalists to be allowed to begin operations, reluctantly agreed to wait until conditions were favorable. $ ^{34} $ The situation changed radically in May 1960 after the loss of Powers' U-2 destroyed the existing cover story for U-2 operations. Now there was no longer any reason not to use the Nationalist pilots. In addition, the Agency soon found itself in need of a base of operations in the Far East after Detachment C had to leave Japan.
During discussions with Nationalist officials on 6 May 1960, the raised the possibility of assigning U-2s to the Chinese Air Force. Two weeks later. approached
informally to propose that the U-2 aircraft based in Japan be moved to Taiwan. This was followed three days later by an official offer on
President Eisenhower learned of Nationalist China's proposal on 18 June. Several weeks later, Richard Bissell suggested that two U-2s be turned over to the Nationalists for use in overflying the mainland. The project would be conducted along the lines of Project STPOLLY. $ ^{35} $
On 26 August 1960, President Eisenhower and the State Department approved Bissell's proposal to turn U-2s over to the Nationalist Chinese rather than move an American detachment to Taiwan. Using Nationalist pilots for overflights had the advantage of providing complete deniability for the United States, even if an aircraft was lost over hostile territory. The U-2s would belong to Nationalist China and would have Nationalist pilots, and there was no overt US involvement with the overflights. In reality, however, the United States would maintain strict control over the missions to be flown. $ ^{36} $
On 7 December 1960, two U-2s were officially licensed for export to Nationalist China as part of a new effort codenamed TACKLE. These planes came from the Agency's U-2 inventory and arrived in