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

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

246
Sec, et NOfOPIN
Chapter 5
Nationalist Chinese U-2R
March 1972. when the President's: visit took place, Detachment H
ceased all operational missions.~'
In March 1973, the TACKLE agreement with the Nationalist
Chinese was renegotiated. Although no end date was set, the agree­
ment contained a termination clause that would become effective three
months after notification by either party. This clause provided more
flexibility to the United States, which could now end the Nationalist
Chinese U-2 program whenever US foreign policy considerations
made such a step desirable.
Operation SCOPE SHIELD Ovm North Vietnam
In addition to the Project TACKLE peripheral missions against the
PRC. Detachment H (with Agency rather than Nationalist Chinese pi­
locs) flew a series of missions known as Operation SCOPE SHIELD
to gather intelligence on activities in North Vietnam. The Indochina
area had become the responsiblity of the Air Force in 1964. but, under
the terms of the cease-fire agreement negotiated with North
., lbi<l.. pp. 44-45 (TS Co<lcwor<l).
See.et