“Lockheed”60+ pages
- p. 4 …Search for a New Reconnaissance Aircraft 8
Lockheed CL-282 Supporters and the CIA 13
Scientists…
- p. 6 …260
Competition Between Lockheed and Convair 267
The Selection of the Lockheed Design 270
Efforts To…
- p. 12 …excellent technical study of the U-2: Lockheed U-2
(1983).
E0129581.131d111>10<25Yrs…
- p. 21 …August 1953, OS1 records (S).
" Jay Miller, Lockheed U-2, Aerograph 3 (Austin, Texas: Aerofax, 1983…
- p. 22 …Immediately after returning to California, Carter proposed to
Lockheed Vice President L. Eugene Root (previously the…
- p. 23 …high-altitude
reconnaissance aircraft
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Lockheed also submit a design. Carter noted that the…
- p. 24 …Miller, Lockheed U-2, p. 12. For more details on Kelly Johnson's original proposal.
see…
- p. 25 12
The Lockheed CL-282
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Development Planning. According to Wienberg, General LeMay…
- p. 26 …Despite the Air Force's selection
of the X-16, Lockheed continued to work on the…
- p. 27 …six days before the Wright Air Development Command
began to evaluate the Lockheed proposal. Gardner described…
- p. 28 …range are not as good as the
Lockheed CL-282.
Gardner's enthusiasm for the CL…
- p. 29 …Few details about Dulles's precise attitude
toward the proposed Lockheed reconnaissance aircraft are available,
but…
- p. 30 …At this point, the summer of 1954, Lockheed's CL-282 proposal
still lacked official support…
- p. 37 …ISP chairman Baker then urged Donovan to travel to
southern California to evaluate the Lockheed design…
- p. 39 …Thus, even though
the Lockheed CL-282 had several important sources of support by
September 1954…
- p. 40 …Council.46
Project Three Support for the Lockheed CL-282
Even before the final Technological Capabilities…
- p. 42 …Agency.49
Land learned the details of Lockheed's proposed CL-282 aircraft
soon after he…
- p. 43 …Chapter 1
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briefly mention a Lockheed design for a high-flying aircraft at the
24…
- p. 44 …During September and October the Project Three study group
met frequently to discuss the Lockheed design…
- p. 47 …The Lockheed super glider will fly at 70,000 feet, well out of the
reach of…
- p. 48 …Putt, to oppose the adoption of the Lockheed design. The officials ar-
gued that the Bell…
- p. 49 …He used Gardner's
statement to convince Lockheed's senior management to approve the
project, which…
- p. 50 …small group of prominent scientists that the
Lockheed design represented the best possible overhead reconnais-
sance…
- p. 52 …afternoon of 3 December, they
Although the Lockheed CL-282 was not designated as the U…
- p. 53 …Eventually Bissell asked who was
going to pay for the airframes to be built by Lockheed…
- p. 55 …This category in-
cluded maintenance personnel from Lockheed (five per
aircraft), the pilots, and support personnel…
- p. 57 …Then on 22 December 1954, the Agency
signed a letter contract with Lockheed, using the codename…
- p. 58 …The U-2 would have a
The Lockheed "Skunk Works" was named after the Kickapoo Joy…
- p. 59 …Johnson, -A High-Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft, - 9 December 1954,
Lockheed Contract Files, OSA Records (S).
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- p. 61 …Reconnaissance Aircraft, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Report 10420. 28 January 1955.
pp. 7-9, OSA Recordsi \ (5…
- p. 63 …1954, even before the CIA adopted
the Lockheed proposal. Baker quickly recognized, however, that he
would…
- p. 69 …Miller, Lockheed U-2. pp. 19-20.
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- p. 74 …aircraft—remained the ex-
clusive province of Lockheed:9
As a result of this agreement, CIA…
- p. 77 …The first model of the
pressure suit, used by Lockheed test pilots, made no provision for…
- p. 79 …Geary told Culbertson that the Lockheed
CL-282 was going to be known officially as the…
- p. 81 …former director of Lockheed's Skunk Works,
to Donald E. Welzenbach, 14 March 1986 (U): Miller…
- p. 84 …7 (TS Codeword); Miller, Lockheed U-2, p. 22.
OSA History, chap. 8, pp. 12-14…
- p. 85 …how to transfer Lockheed employees
from Burbank to Iwithout arousing a great deal of curiosity.
The…
- p. 88 …Colonel Yancey was in charge of six SAL pilots who were to be
trained by Lockheed…
- p. 90 …CIA, which then placed an order with
Lockheed for 29 U-2s in configurations to be…
- p. 107 …U-2
cover story stating that a Lockheed-developed aircraft would be flown
by the USAF…
- p. 143 …Lockheed mechanics
had mounted the various RAINBOW devices on the prototype U-2, a
Lockheed test…
- p. 144 …Unable to restart the power plant, Lockheed test pilot
Robert Sicker bailed out but was struck…
- p. 145 …The loss of one of Lockheed's best test pilots, as well as the pro-
totype…
- p. 157 …As a substitute,
Lockheed began working to develop a paint with radar-suppressant
qualities, but this…
- p. 162 …a series of tests over Edwards AFB. Lockheed began coating
the 11-2s with a standard…
- p. 188 …Although it haL refurbished by
Lockheed and now had the more powerful 175 engine that would…
- p. 200 …Beschloss claims that Powers was fired by Lockheed
for criticizing the Agency in his memoirs (which…
- p. 209 …Some poetic justice in this.'
One week later Colonel Geary called to order Lockheed to up…
- p. 211 …In May 1961, Lockheed began modifying Agency U-2s so that
they could be refueled in…
- p. 220 …story, which
was that its pilots were Lockheed employees on a ferry flight to
Puerto Rico…
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Late in 1958, Lockheed began refitting the Agency's 13 remaining
U…
- p. 264 …1966 decided to place an order with Lockheed for ei g ht more aircraft
to be…
- p. 265 …Francis Gary Powers was one of the Lockheed test pilots who
checked out this new aircraft…
- p. 266 …began coming off the production line at Lockheed
in-the autumn of 1968, CIA and the…
- p. 273 …SP-1362, "History of the OXCART Program,"
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA. 1 July 1968, p…
- p. 275 …Personnel at Lockheed's Skunk Works referred to
these aircraft concepts as "Archangel-1," "Archangel-2…
- p. 276 RN
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Johnson, "Archangel log," 17-24
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Lockheed design for a hydrogen…
- p. 280 …During the first half of 1959, both Lockheed and Convair
worked to reduce the radar cross…
- p. 281 …In early June, Lockheed submitted a design for a ground-launched
aircraft known as the A…
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President and received verbal authorization to proceed. Eisenhower
told Dulles that the project was to be managed by the Agency and
that the Air Force was to provide any assistance needed to get it
operational.66
Thus, it was that the CIA entered into the world of high technol-
ogy primarily because of decisions and actions taken outside the
Agency: the Air Force's refusal to build the CL-282 aircraft,
President Eisenhower's desire to have a sensitive overflight project
conducted by a civilian agency rather than the military, and, above all,
the determination by a small group of prominent scientists that the
Lockheed design represented the best possible overhead reconnais-
sance system.'
Charles Pearre Cabe11, Memorandum for the Record, "Meeting at the White House."
24 November 1954. in OSA History, chap. 2, annex 8 (TS Codeword) ; Beschloss.
Mayday, pp. 82-83: Andrew J. Goodpaster, Memorandum of Conference with the
President, 24 November 1954," White House Office of the Staff Secretary, Alpha Series.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library (hereafter cited as WHOSS. Alpha, DDEL) (TS.
declassified).
Scientists remained active in advising the government on overhead reconnaissance. In
February 1955, the Technological Capabilities Panel issued its final report, which strongly
urged the use of technology to gather intelligence. President Eisenhower strongly backed
the panel's findings and directed government agencies to respond to the recommendations
by June. The CIA's most important reaction to the Technological Capabilities Panel report
was to create its own Scientific Advisory Board composed of the members of the Project
Three Study Group with the addition of James Killian and Jerome B. Wiesner. professor of
electrical engineering at MIT. Edwin Land served as chairman of the CIA Scientific
Advisory Board for the next 10 years, and it soon became known unofficially as the Land
Panel. This panel provided important advice to the Agency. particularly in the field of over-
head reconnaissance.
President Eisenhower also acted to increase the amount and quality of scientific advice
he was receiving. In January 1956 he established the President's Board of Consultants on
Foreign Intelligence Activities (renamed the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board in 1961) to oversee the intelligence community and advise him on intelligence mat-
ters. The board's first chairman was James Killian. In 1957 the President reorganized and
upgraded the Office of Defense Mobilization's Science Advisory Committee, which be-
came the President's Science Advisory Committee. He also named James Killian to be the
first Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. In this new position
Killian served as the President's scientific advisor and the chairman of the President's
Scientific Advisory Committee (Killian stepped down as chairman of the President's Board
of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities but remained a member). These actions by
the President brought scientists into the White House and gave them considerable influence
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