Lockheed received the contract to develop the Oxcart in 1959. The aerospace contractor had already produced the U-2. As the CIA recalled, “Lockheed–led by legendary engineer Clarence ‘Kelly ...

Even more, the CIA revealed that it had flown personnel assigned to the test site from 'the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California, every Monday morning and returned to Burbank on Friday evening' to ...

In early 1962, CIA officials became concerned about the possibility that the Soviet Union might learn about the OXCART program through overhead reconnaissance,' the document reads. Because of the ...