PROJECT 'JACKSON'

摘要

It took about a month from the Powers shootdown for the minor British political storm to break. On 1 June 1960, testifying before a US Senate foreign relations committee hearing on the U-2 affair, NASA deputy director Dr Hugh L. Dryden listed the airfields from which the aircraft had operated weather research flights. One was RAF Lakenheath. CIA U-2s had been deployed to Lakenheath back in 1956, under the cover of conducting weather research. RAF-flown CIA examples had also carried out weather flights from Watton in 1958-59, a fact publicised at the time as part of the Project 'Oldster' cover story, but this seemed to cause no concern.