A newly declassified CIA history from 20 years ago spills the story about Nevada's Area 51 and its secret mission — which was not to study UFOs, but to test the U-2 and other spy planes.The CIA's story about the legendary test site is contained in "The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: the U-2 and Oxcart Programs." The document was approved for release in June, with just a few remaining redactions, in response to a Freedom of Information request filed by George Washington University's National Security Archive back in 2005.
Much of the material was already known to Area 51 aficionados. "Nearly all of the newly released information is already in my books," British author Chris Pocock said in a commentary distributed by the National Security Archive. But the fact that Area 51 is explicitly mentioned in a publicly available document is nevertheless notable.
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The airfield on the Groom Lake site began service in 1942 as Indian Springs Airforce Auxiliary Field,[19]
By July 1955, CIA, Air Force, and Lockheed personnel began arriving. The Ranch received its first U-2 delivery on 24 July 1955 from Burbank on a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane, accompanied by Lockheed technicians on a Douglas DC-3.[22]
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Read more @: Area 51 and its purpose declassified: No UFOs, but lots of U-2 spy planes - NBC News.com
Its finally been declassified! Area-51 exists (not like we already knew it). [/FONT]
...and we have what reason to believe anything we are told by our secretive government? Who didn't know about the U-2 for the last 40 years?
So, in a sudden burst of transparency......whatever....
If I was them, Area-51 would be the decoy. Real sketch stuff is somewhere else. All warfare is deception. So why not apply that to your secrets? Make people and other governments think that's where you have your goodies when all you're doing is some avionics testing. Do enough secret stuff to warrant attention, but have the real goodies elsewhere.
Usually, once the government declassifies something it is because they have already moved on or the information has become obsolete.
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