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Skunk Works Digest          Tuesday, 30 May 1995        Volume 05 : Number 284

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	U-2 Overflights

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From: "Robert S. Hopkins, III" <rsh8s@virginia.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 17:39:43 -0400
Subject: U-2 Overflights

During his opening remarks at the recent CORONA conference, DCI John Deutch
announced that there were 24 (twenty four) CIA U-2 overflights of the USSR.
In a discussion I had immediately afterward with Chris Pocock (author of
_Dragon Lady_) and who was also at the conference, we agreed that 24 was
consistent with all of the evidence we had found, although there were 4
(four) missions that appeared to have overflown the USSR but were not
INTENDED to do so, which accounts for why we both came up with 28 (twenty
eight) missions.

Although the CORONA data were declassified and thoroughly discussed, the
consensus was that we would have to wait quite a bit longer for the CIA to
declassify its history of AQUATONE, the U-2 program. Chris suggested that
this was primarily due to reservations about declassification held by Her
Majesty's Government, considering their involvement in the overflights
(including two overflights of the USSR by RAF pilots). Ah, one day....


Robert S. Hopkins, III
Corcoran Department of History
Randall Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville  VA  22906
internet: rsh8s@virginia.edu



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