Daryl Hunt wrote:
"Vince" wrote in message
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TMOliver wrote:
"Vince" wrote ...

Spies get shot at all the time
Doesn't make it a "battlefield"
they were CIA flights

I guess they forgot to tell you that those VFP-62 pilots were in Navy
flight
suits flying USNavy a/c - big bright stars and all - out of NAS Key
West,
JAX or off CVA decks.

TMO


the U-2 flights were cia

No, Vince, they were Air Force. Although the data collected is "share" with
the CIA and other branches of the Government.



Operational history

Though both the Air Force and the Navy would eventually fly the U-2, it
was originally a CIA operation. Due to the political implications of a
military aircraft invading a country's airspace, only CIA U-2s conducted
overflights. The pilots had to resign their military commissions before
joining the CIA as civilians, a process they referred to as "sheep
dipping".[1]


overflights were always CIA operations

https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol4...hoto_Gap_2.htm


there were ongoing "turf battles" over the COMOR and idealist programs

Vince