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Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:13 David Rosenthal It's the CIA.
- ▶ 39:14 David Rosenthal They are building their own air capabilities and all of the work that Skunk Works does here and for many years to come is for the CIA.
- ▶ 39:58 David Rosenthal So the CIA's spec for Skunk Works for the U-II is to fly at 70,000 feet.
- ▶ 41:15 David Rosenthal So Lockheed and Skunk Works win the contract from the CIA.
- ▶ 53:45 David Rosenthal America and the CIA and the government, the president, their way, they're like, okay.
- ▶ 1:32:22 David Rosenthal I think what the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office does, I think they write these stories, maybe quasi in real time, so that there's documentation of all this stuff, and then they stamp it secret, and then it never gets out until…
- ▶ 1:43:45 David Rosenthal Like, I think these might have been the first or, like, really early digital photo processing manipulation workstations that were sold to the CIA.
- ▶ 1:54:41 David Rosenthal So, when Gary Powers is shot down in May, 1960, of course, as you would expect, the CIA and Skunk Works is already hard at work at the successor airplane to the U-two.
- ▶ 1:56:31 David Rosenthal We're talking about the CIA here.
- ▶ 1:56:34 David Rosenthal The Blackbird was not a CIA airplane.
- ▶ 1:56:42 David Rosenthal This was essentially the same airplane, we'll talk about the differences in a minute, but this was the CIA contract that they had Skunk Works working on, and it was, yeah, the goal of make this thing so fast that whether they see it or…
- ▶ 2:05:01 Ben Gilbert A-II CIA airplane.
- ▶ 2:06:46 Ben Gilbert But they did consider, I think, Kelly and the Skunk Works team were really advocating to build a tactical aircraft that was based on this, or a bomber, and that never happened, so every version of the SR-V-I or the early prototypes of the…
- ▶ 2:07:10 David Rosenthal So, fortunately, you know, Scott Gorks and the CIA had started working on the A-II ox cart before Gary Powers was shut down.
- ▶ 2:32:34 David Rosenthal To put it in domestic terms, if Baghdad had been Washington, that first night, we knocked out their White House, their Capitol Building, their Pentagon, their CIA, their FBI, and took out their telephone and telegraph facilities, we…
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:32:45 Ben Gilbert There's that one and the CIA one.
- ▶ 1:32:47 Ben Gilbert Like, it's secure enough for the CIA to use, so it should be secure enough for you, and that was a few years later.