Philip Strong person
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Philip Strong member_of
Intelligence Integration Systems, Inc. documented
“Donovan, and Miller. At the request of the Air Force, the CIA also participated, represented by Edward Allen of the Office of Research and Report and Philip Strong of the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Chairman of the new panel was Dr. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:13:03
Philip Strong showed
Edwin Land documented
“Also not overly impressed with the CIA, Land learned the details of Lockheed's aircraft soon after he arrived in Washington. Philip Strong showed him Kelly Johnson's concept drawing of the plane and told him that the Air Force had rejected …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:32:20
Philip Strong worked_for
Office of Current Intelligence documented
“He didn't want anything that you could put nuclear weapons on. Gardner and Norton then decided to seek CIA support for the high-flying aircraft. At the time, the agency's official involvement in overhead reconnaissance was limited to advisi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 56:13
Trevor Gardner met_with
Philip Strong documented
“served on several Air Force advisory boards, and kept himself well-informed of reconnaissance aircraft. Gardner, Norton, and Ayers met with Strong in the Pentagon in 1954, six days before Wright Pack began to evaluate the Lockheed proposal.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 56:42
Frederick Ayers Jr. met_with
Philip Strong documented
“served on several Air Force advisory boards, and kept himself well-informed of reconnaissance aircraft. Gardner, Norton, and Ayers met with Strong in the Pentagon in 1954, six days before Wright Pack began to evaluate the Lockheed proposal.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 56:42
Trevor Gardner showed_drawings_to
Philip Strong documented
“served on several Air Force advisory boards, and kept himself well-informed of reconnaissance aircraft. Gardner, Norton, and Ayers met with Strong in the Pentagon in 1954, six days before Wright Pack began to evaluate the Lockheed proposal.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 56:42
Philip Strong served_on
U.S. Air Force documented
“served on several Air Force advisory boards, and kept himself well-informed of reconnaissance aircraft. Gardner, Norton, and Ayers met with Strong in the Pentagon in 1954, six days before Wright Pack began to evaluate the Lockheed proposal.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 56:42
Garrison Norton met_with
Philip Strong documented
“served on several Air Force advisory boards, and kept himself well-informed of reconnaissance aircraft. Gardner, Norton, and Ayers met with Strong in the Pentagon in 1954, six days before Wright Pack began to evaluate the Lockheed proposal.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 56:42
Philip Strong talked_to
Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented
“than any other design because of its maximum altitude its smaller radar cross section might make it invisible to soviet radars the three officials asked strong if the cia would be interested in the aircraft strong promised to talk to the di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 59:02