OPERATION FISH HAWK

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2018
• Case Number: F-2017-02292

Approved for Release: 2018/07/25 C06703832
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1Stfls19-Operation Fish Hawk was a carrier-based U-2 mission to collect baseline photography of a French
nuclear test site in 1964. After following French nuclear program developments for many months, the
Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance (COMOR) apprised the United States Intelligence Board of the
necessity to collect intelligence'on probable French testing facilities in the South Pacific. When France
announced its intention to detonate a hydrogen,device, the Intelligence Community sought to gather information
about the status of the nuclear test area in the Mururoa Atoll. The Navy selected Ranger for the mission, which
carried National Photographic Interpretation Center photo interpreter, was able (b)(3)
to process and analyze the U-2-collected imagery in a specially developed shipborne photography lab aboard
the Ranger for rapid study and turn around to other intelligence officials. The U-2G launched successfully,.but
cloud cover during the initial May 19, 1964 mission obscured .a number of the targets, prompting authorization
of a second mission for May 23. The second mission succeeded brilliantly, capturing high-quality photographs
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I. I Gregory W. Pedlow. and Donald E. Welzenbach , The CIA and the U2 Program (Central Intelligence
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1998) 123
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