CIA File of the Day
Contingency Planning for Project OXCART
A memorandum from the Office of the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence to Dr. Brockway McMillan, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, on contingency planning for Project OXCART. It says plans were moving ahead for delivery of the first Air Force OXCART version to Edwards Air Force Base, and warns that without suitable contingency planning the first Air Force aircraft's arrival there in the late spring of 1964 would amount to de facto surfacing of the program.
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.