Interesting (to me, anyway) find in Oxcart report

Message posted by Chris McDowell on September 09, 2009 at 0:13:32 PST:

I was looking around trying to find an answer to habu-e6's question about the cesium additive in the SR-71's special JP-7 fuel, and I came across a history of the Oxcart program (see link). Throughout the document, whenever the location of the Oxcart testing is mentioned, i.e., Groom Lake, it is redacted (blocked out) in the text.

But it looks like the censor missed one on page 18!

I'm sure some of you have already seen this document, but it still was cool to see the term "the Area" used (note the capitalization) without being censored.

One thing that really surprised me was that (in the same sentence) Kelly Johnson mentions that, since the SR-71 program was publicly revealed by LBJ, the government recommended the prototypes be put in storage and the base (Groom) be CLOSED!

Didn't happen, obviously.

This 25-page history of the Oxcart program, written by Kelly Johnson himself, is a very interesting read. Check it out.

Chris M.

Attached link: http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs.asp?doc_no=0001458639&no_pages=0025&showPage=0001

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