CIA-UAP-003, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974

“Lockheed”60+ pages

• p. 4 …8 Lockheed CL-282 Supporters and the CIA. ........................................ 13 Scientists and Overhead Reconnaissance ............................................... 17 The BEACON…
• 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 (l 983). There has also been…
• p. 22 …Immediately after returning to California, Carter proposed to Lockheed Vice President L. Eugene Root (previously the…
• p. 23 10 Secret ld0F8RN Chapter 1 Lockheed also submit a design. Carter noted that the proposed aircraft…
• p. 24 …who then asked Lockheed to Kelly Johnson . sμbmit a specific proposal. In early April, Kelly Johnson…
• p. 25 . 12 Sec,et NOFORN Chapter 1 The Lockheed CL-282 Development Planning. According to Wienberg, General…
• p. 26 …Despite the Air Force's selection of the X-16, Lockheed continued to work on the…
• p. 27 …Proposals for special reconnaissance aircraft have been re ceived in the Air Staff from Lockheed. Fairchild…
• p. 28 …range are not as good as the Lockheed CL-282. :; Gardner's enthusiasm for the CL…
• p. 29 …Few detaiils about Dulles's precise attitude toward the proposed Lockheed reconnaissance aircraft are available, but…
• p. 37 …for Philip Strong of the CIA had told him that the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation had designed…
• p. 39 …Thus, even though the Lockheed CL-282 had several important sources of support by September I954…
• p. 40 …Council.'A Project Three Support for the Lockheed CL-282 Chapter 1 James R. Killian, Jr…
• p. 42 …Agency.~·1 Land learned the details of Lockheed's proposed CL-282 aircraft soon after he…
• p. 43 30 Sec, et NOFORM Chapter 1 briefly mention a Lockheed design for a high-flying aircraft…
• 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 Decembeli, they ' Although the Lockheed CL-282 was not designated as the U…
• p. 53 …r the airframes to be built by Lockheed. His query was greeted with silence. Everyone present…
• p. 55 …This category in cluded maintenance and support personnel from Lockheed (five per aircraft), the pilots, and…
• p. 56 …to be settled, including the contract with Lockheed. Nevertheless. work on the U-2 began as…
• p. 57 …A general contractor such as Lockheed can purchase much, if not all, of the supplies needed…
• p. 58 …During the final contract negotiations in the spring of 1958, Lockheed and the US Government agreed…
• p. 59 …Aircraft," 9 Dc:cc:mbc:r 195-i. Lockheed Contract Filc:s. OSA Records (S ). SeeFet
• p. 61 …F. Boc:hrne. Summary Report: Reconnaissance Aircraft. Lockheed Aircraft Corpor.ition Report I04'.!0. 28 January…
• p. 63 …1954, even before the CIA adopted the Lockheed proposal. Baker quickly recognized, however, that he would…
• p. 69 …1-2 (TS Codeword); Miller, Lockheed U-2. pp. 19-20. Sea,at
• p. 70 …By July 1955 the base was ready, and Agency, Air Force, and Lockheed personnel began moving…
• p. 74 61 project-the construction and testing of the aircraft-remained the ex clusive province of Lockheed…
• 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. 10 Donald E. Welzenbach, 14 March 1986 (U): Miller…
• p. 84 …7 (TS Codeword); Miller, Lockheed U-2, p. 22. "' OSA Hiswry, chap. 8, pp. 12-14…
• p. 85 …how to transfer Lockheed employees from Burbank to Area 5 l without arousing a great deal…
• p. 88 …Colonel Yancey was in charge of six SAC 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 tesi: pilot Robert Sieker 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 …After a series of tests over Edwards AFB, Lockheed began coating the U-2s with a…
• p. 188 …Although it had been refurbished by Lockheed and now had the more powerful 175 engine that…
• p. 199 …In the meantime Pow1ers began working for Lockheed as a U-2 pilot. In March 1963…
• p. 200 …Beschloss claims that Powers was tired by Lockheed for criticizing the Agency in his memoirs (which…
• p. 209 …2 One week later Colonel Geary called to order Lockheed to up grade six older U…
• 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…
• p. 230 …for Detachment C Late in l 958, Lockheed began refitting the Agency's 13 remaining U…
• p. 235 …STPOLLY added the more advanced Lockheed P3A in 1963. Between 1955 and 1967, when the CIA…
• p. 236 …U-2 missions, and the Air Force, which had Lockheed P-2V7 and P3A reconnaissance aircraft
• p. 238 …The planes were maintained by Lockheed mechanics under con tract to the CIA. The Agency attempted…
• p. 255 …All Air Force and CIA U-2s were or dered back to Lockheed for ultrasonic inspection…
• p. 260 …The Agency dispatched several pilots to Taiwan under the cover of Lockheed employees working on a…
• p. 264 …G in California-with three more at Lockheed undergo ing repair. The Agency had originally ordered…
• p. 265 …Francis Gary Powers was one of the Lockheed test pilots who checked out this new aircraft…