U-2 program operation
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Claims (15)
CIA funded
U-2 program documented
document
“The Agency's sponsorship and deployment of the U 2 reconnaissance…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.64
Richard M. Bissell headed
U-2 program documented
document
“For the next six years he maintained virtually exclusive control over the development of the U 2 program its management and the initiation of follow-on reconnaissance systems…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.64
Dwight D. Eisenhower removed_from_power
U-2 program documented
“After the Soviets shot down Francis Gary Powers on the 1st of May 1960, President Eisenhower forbade any further U-2 flights over the Soviet Union since the agency must always assess a covert program's potential payoff against the diplomati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 4:42
CIA operated_in
U-2 program documented
“what this document is. And it's a history documentation about the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program, which ran from 54 to 74, developed and operated two extraordinary aircraft, the U-2 and the A-12 Oxcart. It describes not only t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 3:15
U-2 program operated_in
Area 51 host_asserted
“of this Operation Gladio Evil Empire kind of thing. And so she mentioned the Area 51. That was set up originally by the CIA to field the U-2 plane. The U-2 program was not an Air Force program. It was a CIA program that then got given to th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 24:42
Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of
U-2 program documented
“are still present today when they're dual use by the CIA and the air force. It talks about the program managers eager to, um, for coverage repeatedly urged the president to authorize frequent missions over the Soviet union. President Eisenh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 4:14
Richard M. Bissell Jr. proposed
U-2 program host_asserted
“And he also helped plan both the Bay of Pigs and the U2 spy plane. Correct. How do we get two of the planners of the Bay of Pigs come from the same private high school? Well, that's because they're doing all of this together for their famil…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #35 @ 35:28
U-2 program attributed_to
UFO sightings book_quoted
“reported incidents was attributed in a classified way to the U2 and their test flights over the United States in those early years. So anyway, having said that, again, once Tommy puts that podcast out that we're going to record tomorrow, I …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:57:16
CIA headed
U-2 program host_asserted
“The U-2 program was not an Air Force program. It was a CIA program that then got given to the Air Force in order to begin flying missions.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 25:11
Lee Harvey Oswald involved_in
U-2 program host_asserted
“No, I mean, there's lots of people that speculate stuff. I don't talk about speculation. I just try to put the facts. What we know is that Oswald was involved in the CIA U2 program. We know that he was in Japan. We know that he was affiliat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 1:24:05
U-2 program funded_by
Lockheed host_asserted
“being uh sourced for excuse me operational um with lockheed by the way um oh yes and so yeah so if that coincides with okay look we're going to use this area out in the middle of nowhere um in 1954…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 28:49
U-2 program caused
UFO sightings book_quoted
“over the horizon and can still light up the underbelly of the U-2. And so there was this astronomical rise as soon as they started test flying the U-2 in UFO sightings. And they had already arranged with the CIA that when the Pentagon got t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:54:54
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed
U-2 program guest_asserted
“The guy that chose the place and oversaw the U-2 aircraft was, he held the purse strings for OSS. He was Richard Bissell Jr., who was good buddies with Alan Dulles.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 21:35
CIA funded
U-2 program host_asserted
“When they wanted to do the U-2, a lot of the money for the U-2 and the SR-71 was actually an ox cart was funneled through the Air Force. And who knew what? I don't know. But I know the National Security Council knew. I know the chief of the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:28:47
CIA member_of
U-2 program host_asserted
“When they wanted to do the U-2, a lot of the money for the U-2 and the SR-71 was actually an ox cart was funneled through the Air Force. And who knew what? I don't know. But I know the National Security Council knew. I know the chief of the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:28:47
Mentions (20)
▶ 21:35
The guy that chose the place and oversaw the U-2 aircraft was, he held the purse strings for OSS. He was Richard Bissell Jr., who was good buddies with Alan Dulles. Everybody hears about him all the time, but nobody too much hears about Ric…
▶ 25:11
That was set up originally by the CIA to field the U-2 plane. The U-2 program was not an Air Force program. It was a CIA program that then got given to the Air Force in order to begin flying missions.…
▶ 25:31
And many of the people that flew the U-2 ended up in the CIA program. So seating some of them in the Air Force gave them a pipeline to be able to fill their program in the CIA. And that was the only reason they did that. So I just wanted to…
▶ 28:40
And was it Air Force? I don't believe so. I believe it was CIA. But they had some good pilots. Well, what's interesting about what you just said, because one of my best friends is a U-2, well, he was a U-2 pilot twice. And 1954 is when that…
▶ 29:09
being uh stores for excuse me operational um with Lockheed by the way oh yes and so yeah so that coincides with okay look we're going to use this area out in the middle of nowhere um in 1954…
▶ 29:30
With us developing the U2 and we're going to move that out there for the experimental test flights and stuff like that. So we need to get rid of those pesky people that we can't get rid of. Right. I think the reason that they didn't try to …
▶ 1:19:06
Some of the people that have been caught, the guy that was shot down over Indonesia, despite having a strip search, getting into a U-2 aircraft, they will carry their, because they don't want to be that person that gets thrown under the bus…
▶ 1:28:47
When they wanted to do the U-2, a lot of the money for the U-2 and the SR-71 was actually an ox cart was funneled through the Air Force. And who knew what? I don't know. But I know the National Security Council knew. I know the chief of the…
▶ 1:52:32
When we're talking about all of these operations, at the same time that we're talking about in the 1950s, they're developing the U-2. They're developing the SR-71. And when you couple that with all of these other operations, understanding t…
▶ 1:53:00
it brings a completely different picture to the whole thing. And remember that Pine Gap, the satellites, because while we were using the U-2 and the SR-71 for reconnaissance, they're actively building in the late 50s also Pine Gap because i…
▶ 1:53:29
the beginnings of this global surveillance. And we have not focused a lot on that because I didn't know, obviously, the whole history of the U2 program and when it became operational, which we're kind of walking through a declassified CIA d…
▶ 1:53:58
the Air Force Research Lab that's located at Wright-Patt, when they first started flying the U-2, they talk about, and you can share this with all of your flat earth people, they talked about the horizon of, because they were flying at 70,0…
▶ 1:54:25
They didn't want to paint it because it added like 200 pounds to the airframe. So they left it basically raw metal. And they were flying at 70,000 feet. And so over the horizon where it was dark and like Florida, the U-2, if it was flying o…
▶ 1:54:54
over the horizon and can still light up the underbelly of the U-2. And so there was this astronomical rise as soon as they started test flying the U-2 in UFO sightings. And they had already arranged with the CIA that when the Pentagon got t…
▶ 1:55:24
obviously, that they were the U-2. The job of the people that manned the phones there was to check the classified flight schedules of the U-2. And one of the reasons why the SR-71 is black is because that would not be a problem with the ref…
▶ 1:55:53
They tried several different options to cut down on the reflective glare. I haven't got to the part where any of them worked, but they did try to address that to use some special paint that Lockheed had come up with that was like a sun abso…
▶ 1:56:16
It was one of the real dilemmas in the 50s and 60s when they were flying the U-2 while it was still classified. And I just find that very interesting, especially, again, in light of all of the discussions about UFOs and stuff like that, tha…
▶ 1:56:46
planes that were also high flight reconnaissance that were being addressed in the declassified document about the U-2 doesn't address the correlation of those others with those other airframes. But I just, I find all of it very fascinating.…
▶ 1:57:16
reported incidents was attributed in a classified way to the U2 and their test flights over the United States in those early years. So anyway, having said that, again, once Tommy puts that podcast out that we're going to record tomorrow, I …
▶ 1:24:05
No, I mean, there's lots of people that speculate stuff. I don't talk about speculation. I just try to put the facts. What we know is that Oswald was involved in the CIA U2 program. We know that he was in Japan. We know that he was affiliat…