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

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Sec, et NOFOAN
Chapter 3
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had flown a total of 23 missions: six over the Soviet Union, five over
Eastern Europe, and most of the remaining 12 missions over the
Mediterranean area.')()
COOPERATION WITH NORWAY
The final missions of Detachment A had one unforeseen result: the
beginning of cooperation between CIA and the Norwegian
Intelligence Service on the U-2 program. Norwegian radars tracked
the overflights of the Barents Sea and Murmansk in October 1957,
and Col. Vilhelm Evan° Chief of the Norweoian Defense Staff
Intelli 0 ence Service
In March 1958, Colonel
Evang came to Washington and received a briefing from Arthur
Lundahl together with sanitized photos that did not reveal the altitude
of the aircraft or the focal length of the camera. The Agency provided
additional photos to Norway during a visit by a PIO staff member in
July.~'
Later that year Norway agreed to provide an airfield for the
United States to conduct U-2 flights that did not violate Soviet air­
space. On 15 September l
a Detachment B staging party arrived
at Bodo Air Force Base
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was followed by an ELINT collection flight over international waters
(the Kara Sea) on 25 October. On 6 November, the U-2 returned to
Adana by conducting a lengthy ELINT collection flight along the bor­
ders of the Soviet Union and East Germany. During the initial portion
of the mission, when the U-2 flew along the Soviet-Finnish border
and then turned east over the Gulf of Finland to come within 60 miles
of Leningrad (while remaining over international waters), the aircraft
was the target of 23 unsuccessful Soviet intercept attempts.92
•., OSA History, chap. I [. p. 44: chap. I9. annex 120 (TS Codeword).
"' Ibid., chap. 11, pp. 44-45 (TS Codeword); NPIC History. vol. 3. pp. 447-8 (S) .
•,, Mission folders !482 (9 October !958), 4092 (25 October !958). and 4093 (6
November 1958). OSA records. job 67-B-972. boxes 3 and 10.
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