Things That Can And Cannot Be Said (2016)
“. . there was one big issue, a super-issue. It’s a long story, but I’ll just say, we had Joe Loftus and Andy Marshall, at RAND, who were well known. Loftus had been an Air Force intelligence officer for a long time; he worked with the CIA. Andy Marshall, by the way, is still consulting at the Pentagon. He’s in his nineties. I’m talking now about ’58, that’s almost sixty years ago, you see? And he was Rumsfeld’s closest advisor. He was a very mysterious figure, and a very close friend of mine at... the time. Back then he was at RAND, we knew he had an intelligence clearance, whatever that meant. Actually we knew that he dealt with the CIA. We didn’t know that meant anything. Now, in particular, it meant he had a K clearance, a KEYHOLE.
Now, the point about the T[ALENT] and K[EYHOLE] being separated was that nobody knows about the plane. It’s only when Khrushchev shoots down a U-2 that people learn about the U-2 program. Before that, before ’60, only a handful of people, including some reconnaissance experts in RAND who worked with the U-2, knew there was a U-2.MoreLess
Now, the point about the T[ALENT] and K[EYHOLE] being separated was that nobody knows about the plane. It’s only when Khrushchev shoots down a U-2 that people learn about the U-2 program. Before that, before ’60, only a handful of people, including some reconnaissance experts in RAND who worked with the U-2, knew there was a U-2.MoreLess
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