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

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The following year, the Director of the Office of Special Activities,
Brig. Gen. Harold F. Knowles, wrote a memorandum to the DCI pro­
posing that the ClA develop a clandestine low-radar-cross-section
vehicle like PINE RIDGE. but this proposal also failed to attract sup­
port. With all the improvements in satellite reconnaissance that had
taken place during the previous decade, neither CIA nor the Air Force
was willing to invest substantial funding in a project to send aircraft.
manned or unmanned, over the .Soviiet Union.