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

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The loss of yet another U-2 and its pilot made Nationalist
Chinese officials reluctant to resume overflights of the mainland.
They insisted that their U-2 pilots be given permission to turn on the
System-XIII false-angle device during the entire time they were over
hostile territory, not just after they had been alerted by the System-XII
radar-detection device. The Defense Department acceded to these de­
mands in order to keep the TACKLE flights going. In addition, the
Project TACKLE U-2s began receiving even more advanced ECM
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equipment.
•• Mission folders C284C (22 November 1964), C304C (25 November 1964), C344C (19
December 1964), and C0l5C (8 January 1965), OSA records, job 66-B-664, box 8, job
69-B-404, bait 2, and job 66-8-597, bait I; USIB History, vol. 6, p. 758 (TS Codeword).
"' Ibid.. chap. 17, pp. 59-61 (TS Codeword).
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