{"id":264,"date":"2008-10-14T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2009-05-24T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T02:00:15","slug":"prelude-to-project-tackle-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Prelude to Project TACKLE (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year of 1960 proved to be a busy year for people at CIA&#8217;s DPD as they worked hard to establish a U-2 detachment in Taiwan.  In his memoir, Jude Pao, former Operations Chief of the 35th Squadron, said that a US delegation, including a General Gerry, a Mr. Carter (who, according to Pao, later became US Postmaster General), John McMahon, Samuel Jackson, and others, came to Taiwan to survey the operating site in the spring of 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Although Chris Pocock described this Mr. Carter as the leader of this group and as the &#8220;new DDCI&#8221; in his book <i>50 Years of the U-2<\/i>, I think both Pao and Pocock were wrong.  I could not find any Postmaster General named Carter and CIA would not have a DDCI called Carter until Marshall Carter took this position in April 1962.  In 1960, Marshall Carter was the Chief of Staff of US Eighth Army in Korea.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wreckage1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/br>Soviet citizens viewing the wreckage of the U-2 flown by Gary Powers. (Eisenhower Libarary)<\/p>\n<p>Then, on May 1, 1960, the U-2 piloted by CIA&#8217;s Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union.  This incident put the Japanese government under a lot of pressure from its citizens because CIA maintained its U-2 Detachment C at NAS Atsugi.  Secretary of State Herter sent the following telegram to the US Embassy in Japan after the incident:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/19600509.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We know this is an outright lie because U-2 taking off from Japan had engaged in the reconnaissance overflight of China during the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis.  Anyway, the search for a suitable operating location in Taiwan for the proposed U-2 detachment continued.  As of June 1960, the site had not been decided, as shown by the following memorendum:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/19600616.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The assurance from the US government could not save Detachment C.  The two U-2 based at Atsugi were hastily removed and the staff packed their stuff in August.  A week later, both the State Department and President Eisenhower approved CIA&#8217;s proposal to establish a U-2 detachment in Taiwan.  The Powers incident might have indirectly facilitated the approval process.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/19600819.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year of 1960 proved to be a busy year for people at CIA&#8217;s DPD as they worked hard to establish a U-2 detachment in Taiwan. In his memoir, Jude Pao, former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[42,100,99,97,101,102,44,41,103,43],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-u-2","tag-35th","tag-chris-pocock","tag-cia","tag-eisenhower","tag-gary-powers","tag-jude-pao","tag-tackle","tag-u2","tag-103","tag-blackcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}