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Central Intelligence Agency Operation of the OXCART

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A-12 OXCART · 19 February 1968

A memorandum for the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board on CIA operation of the OXCART. It reports that since the previous May the Agency had been operating the OXCART aircraft out of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and that the aircraft had flown twenty-five missions over Southeast Asia and two over North Korea. Present plans called for the OXCART to return to the United States prior to June of that year and then be mothballed.

Courtesy of the CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room. Official page: CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room. Document PDF: cia.gov reading room PDF. Copy: Internet Archive.