Thomas P. McIninch, Cold War A-12s, "The Oxcart Story", and the C.I.A. |
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Thomas P. McIninch was a 'child of the Cold War', a psuedonym created and used by the C.I.A. |
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U-2, |
After the U-2 spy-plane went down over Russia in 1960, we built the Lockheed A-12. |
A-12, |
The A-12 was a high-altitude, Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft built for the Central |
SR-71 |
Intelligence Agency by Lockheed's Skunk Works (aircraft designs by Clarence "Kelly" |
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Johnson; the A-12 was the 12th in a series of internal design efforts for "Archangel"). |
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Developed and operated by the CIA under the code name 'Project Oxcart', the A-12s |
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over-flew North Vietnam, North Korea, and other sensitive areas during the 1960s. |
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In the 1970s, U.S. Air Force SR-71 ‘Blackbird’s and Corona satellites took over aerial |
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reconnaissance missions (an original A-12 is on display at CIA HQ, Langley, Virginia). |
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1971 |
Secret study of the A-12 / Oxcart program, in the CIA’s classified internal publication |
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“Studies in Intelligence” (‘SII’), Winter 1971 pgs.1-34, written by CIA analysts under |
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the collective pseudonym “Thomas P. McIninch” and declassified in the early 1990s. |
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"The Oxcart Story", Air Force Magazine, www.airforcemag.com/article/1194oxcart |
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and "Black Shield", Air Force Magazine, www.airforcemag.com/article/0195shield |
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original doc www.governmentattic.org/10docs/CIA-SII-theOXCARTstory_1971.pdf |
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1971 |
The real author of the 1971 report was John Parangosky, CIA's Oxcart Program Manager |
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at Groom Lake, Nevada, in the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame - “John Parangosky |
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(aka Thomas P. McIninch) has been inducted for having brought to fruition some of the |
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. . . most sophisticated aerial and space-based technical intelligence collection systems |
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. . . to the mid-1970s.” www.mccarran.com/NVAHOF/BiosTouchScreen/Parangosky |
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1919 |
John Parangosky was born 4 Dec. 1919, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, |
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son of Peter and Susan (Lesko) Parangosky. John served in the U.S. Army Air Force |
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and Counterintelligence Corps, working in the United States and Asia during and after |
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World War II. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and |
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Columbia Law School (Manhattan, New York), Parangosky joined the CIA in July 1948. |
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Parangosky died on September 9, 2004, at the age of 84, in Leesburg, Loudoun County, |
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Virginia, and was buried in Shenandoah Heights, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. |
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2012 |
CIA book Archangel: CIA's Supersonic A-12 Reconnaissance Aircraft, Second Edition, |
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by David Robarge, download the book (large pdf) at https://www.cia.gov/resources |
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/csi/books-monographs/archangel-cias-supersonic-a-12-reconnaissance-aircraft |
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A-12 |
“The A-12 Articles of Project Oxcart at Groom Lake and Operation Black Shield |
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in Okinawa” https://roadrunnersinternationale.com/oxcart.html |
SR-71 |
“Oxcart vs Blackbird: Do You Know the Difference?” |
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www.cia.gov/stories/story/oxcart-vs-blackbird-do-you-know-the-difference |
2021 |
“A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it.” |
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https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/lost-cia-spyplane-area51 |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XXX n.2 / Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2022-20 |
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