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

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Chapter 5
Project TACKLE Peripheral Missions. 1969-1974
Display of downed detachment
H U-2s in Peiping
Fiscal Year
Missions
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
9
14
19
23
31
17
Once the United States began seeking a rapprochement with the
People's Republic of China. Detachment H U-2s came under more
and more restrictions. Soon after the impending visit of President
Richard M. Nixon to the PRC was announced, U-2 missions were
ordered to stay even farther away from the mainland: 25 nautical
miles instead of the previous 20. During the months of February and
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