“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
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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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are shown on current unclassified maps as a small rectangular area adjoining the northeast corner of the much larger Nevada Test Site. To make the new facility in the middle of nowhere sound more attractive to his workers, Kelly Johnson called it the Paradise Ranch, which was soon shortened to the Ranch. $ ^{24} $
Although the dry lakebed could have served as a landing strip, project managers decided that a paved runway was needed so that testing could also take place during the times when rainwater runoff from nearby mountains filled the lake (at such times the base acquired yet another unofficial name, Watertown Strip). By July 1955 the base was ready, and Agency, Air Force, and Lockheed personnel began moving in.
Area 51, the Ranch