AQUATONE/OILSTONE PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62B00844R000200040044-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: April 29, 1957
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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29 April 1957
AQUA TON/OIL. T
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conditions are generally favorable for aerial
reconnaissance over Europe and most of Siberia from April through
October and in the far Last are moderately good in summer and at their
best during the autumn.
b. AQUATONE Detachments are now place and operational
in Germaeny and Turkey with four aircraft each and t,
aircraft. They fly occasional weather missions is support of their cover
and high attitude air sampling missions, all over friendly territory. The
Detachment in Turkey carrrries out occasional reconnaissance over the
Middle East.
e last nine, moot .. significant progress has been
achieved through this Project to the development of radar camouflage. It
is believed that the radar reflectivity of the U_Z aircraft can be to reduced
as to create a good chance that a majority of overflight missions will avoid
detection entirely. Nevertheless, It must be anticipated that at least a
certain proportion of them will be detected, although their continuous track-
ing should be extremely difficult. Our plan is to equip the U-2 aircraft
# and as it is operationally developed, 3 which it is
hoped can be by late June.
* likely that. espec
be relatively safe from lntercep
ounaissaacee season. Nevertheless.
ecurity surrounding this operation are sub-
continuous erosion is the At UATONE capability must be regarded
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specific target* which have bean selected by the Intelligence Goan city
nuclear weatl-ate?taias, and intercontinental bombers. To cover
aen developments and Installations having to do with. Soviet g
obtainable only through aerial reca
ing the A+
joint Air
greater security, en ploy deeper cover,
craft outside of Military control.
plaaesibls denial of U.S. military zees
charges. Currently two
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moat, it to proposed that the present joint Project be continued (probably
the bands of the Clandestine Service than in the, regular military as
is, for the re&*"$ just stated, politically more viol
e changes In orgawisation and cover) through 1951 and kept
be
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aircraft in addition to the these AQUAT+ E Detlac
separate from the SAC squads s (subject of coarse to the Immediate tra
for to SAC is t ho event of a war emergency). it to our view that such a
exist.
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possibility of
erfiight capability outside
b. The modification of a few of the Agency'* aircraft to
permit basing them a an aircraft carrier and thereby to avoid
the a -o*nre of triewdly government* to political and diplomatic
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