JOHNSON REVEALS A 2,000-M.P.H. JET; SEES MAJOR GAINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400100089-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: March 1, 1964
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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President Johnson disclosed ,,?7atter military affairs, .: re- ?nussions over the Soviet Unia;tl;cculd vi;'tual } m It tl ntc zis
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crce today and identified the available published materials in- ing of a pla.tie flown by I`naitcis !yclop the .13-70 bo zber It was
plane as the A-11. He said its dica.ted ro references to the new Gary Fowers on May 1, 10^00. a hey issue in th ern trovcrsy
performance "far exceeds that high-speed, high-altitude air-. The U-3 was also used in hi~:h- over the Th'X (ta .ilea fibhter,
of any other aircraft in the craft. altitude ,tests to dctcrmine theCexperimentsl.l) w rpl e con-?
The project was started ir. extent of nuclear ra.dia.tion aftcr~ ti.~,ct.
world today." (Cpening state- 195'1, the president said. This bomb tests, and for wcatrtei? ob-: In Lhc Tl! 3i co trov ray, the
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the United States was, faliing~vclo ed for militar a nra.Eions,. said that the us of itaztiunt
cance of the lease.~,s learned in behind the Soviet Union mill-iwas basal nn Lhc Presidrnt's~'far the nr,+.v high pee fighteri
developing the plane. Bat the ;ta.rily, particularly in missiles:) notin~~ ..hat the. "air-to-a.ir mis-~;plane? nnty dnsi>;?na cd t e F-111;'
ommercial application does not ITachcd by .F.isrnhiiwer !silo system for the A.=17." attil' woi.tld in;?nly . h gh Ievelop,,
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on the details of the secret displayed enthusiasm for it. Ac- that the. president, is .:uention.' technafahic i l inf mat an ob-!
cording to one source, President; ing the A-11's commcrcisil i.gni_i taincd i;i t:ze .~-11. rot am that
project. A Government scarce tl~ennedy "resardcd the A-11 as i'ficance I art bcc:z s c'?i'tin; ? chief-. it ;v:ts mssihic to oval rate the
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paredness Subcommittee a.nd' Najceb E. Halaby, ar'.minis-~:TFN was n?rong, en fit had
launchersumably with missiler 4ecretresumably informed of the) trator c!f the Peder.!1 Aviation;'nroved right in t e 11, be-
project. He said today, Agency, and other officials con- cause the proposed use 'as dif-,
', Doccloped by Y,oalelreed that the appropriate members ~ coned . vrith the s,