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

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Subsequent missions in support of Federal agencies included
Earthquake damage, San
COMPASS TRIP in fiscal year 1973, when Agency U-2s photo­
Fernando Valley, 1971
graphed poppy fields that had been planted by the Bureau of
Narcotics in order to provide a standard for comparison with sate:llite
imagery. In the following year, U-2s assisted the Corps of Engirneers
in conducting a geological survey.
Overseas Deployment Exercises and Missions
With the exception of the Chinese Nationalist-piloted U-2!; of
Detachment H, all of the Agency's U-2 assets were concentrated in
Detachment G in California. To test the ability of Detachment G to
respond to a crisis in Europe or the Middle East, the Agency staged
an overseas deployment exercise known as SCOPE SAINT each year
(unless there was an actual operational deployment, as was the -case
in 1970, 1973, and 1974). The first of these exercises, SCOPE
SAINT-I, took place o
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con ucted several training flights and then returned
to California. SCOPE SAINT-II followed in April 1969 and dennon­
strated the feasibility of employing a C-14 I aircraft to accompainy a
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