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

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! U-2 photography of Egyptian
aircraft. Contmumg past Cairo to film another a1rfield,U:lal.!Jturned · airbase at Almaza,
southeast and then north to fly along the Nile, again crossing directly i 29 October 1956
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over Almaza. The photography from this leg of the mission rev,eaJed
the burning wreckage of the Egyptian aircraft During the short period
of time that had passed betweenCHall's tw~ passes, a combined
Anglo-French air armada had attacked the airbase. When shown the
before and after photos of Almaza, President Eisenhower told Arthur
Lundahl: "Ten-minute reconnaissance, now that's a goal to shoot
for!" )4 Eisenhower was pleased with the aerial photography but
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'"' Lundahl and Brugioni interview (TS Codeword); i3eschloss (Mayday. p. 138) mistak­
enly identifi~ this quote as coming from the British, but they did not receive copies of
these photos:__i
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