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

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in. The staging base in this case was Ta Khli, Thailand. These flights
U-2 photography of Typhoon
did not go unnoticed; on 13 September 1959, Hong Kong's China
Winnie, July 1958
Post published a story headlined "U-2 of USAF Said Reconnoit,ering
Red China at Unreachable Altitude."~
U-2Cs for Detachment C
Late in l 958, Lockheed began refitting the Agency's 13 remaining
U-2s with the more powerful Pratt & Whitney J75/P-13 jet engine.
The first of these U-2Cs arrived at Detachment C in the summer of
1959. During a test flight of this aircraft (article 360) on 24
September 1959, the pilot decided to set a new altitude re,:ord.
" Ibid .. chap. 18. pp. 6-7, 12; chap. 15. p. 29 (TS Codeword).
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