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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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Developing the U-2
## THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U-2 PROJECT
On 26 November 1954, the day after Thanksgiving, Allen Dulles called his special assistant, Richard Bissell, into his office to tell him that President Eisenhower had just approved a very secret program and that Dulles wanted Bissell to take charge of it. Saying it was too secret for him to explain, Dulles gave Bissell a packet of documents and told him he could keep it for several days to acquaint himself with the project. Bissell had long known of the proposal to build a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, but only in the most general terms. Now he learned in detail about the project that proposed sending aircraft over the Soviet Union.
Late on the morning of 2 December 1954, Dulles told Bissell to go to the Pentagon on the following day to represent the Agency at an organizational meeting for the U-2 $ ^{1} $ project. Before leaving, Bissell asked Dulles which agency was to run the project. The DCI replied that nothing had been clearly decided. Bissell then asked who was going to pay for the project. Dulles answered: "That wasn't even mentioned. You'll have to work that out." $ ^{2} $
Bissell was accompanied by Herbert I. Miller, chief of the Office of Scientific Intelligence's Nuclear Energy Division, who soon became the executive officer of the overflight project. When Bissell and Miller arrived at the Pentagon on the afternoon of 3 December, they
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