“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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Arrival of U-2 prototype at Area 51 (left); Article 341, the U-2 prototype (below)
Johnson had designed the U-2 to use the Pratt & Whitney (P&W) J57/P-31 engine, which developed 13,000 pounds of thrust and weighed 3,820 pounds, giving it a power-to-weight ratio of 3.4:1. When the U-2 first took to the air, however, these engines were not available because the entire production was needed to power specially configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first U-2s therefore used P&W J57/P-37 engines, which were 276 pounds heavier and delivered only 10,200 pounds of thrust at sea level; the resulting