Interviews: September 9, 2009; October 8, 2009; December 15, 2009
Wayne E. Pendleton (1935-). EG&G radar expert. Lockheed Skunk Works, EG&G radar range, National Reconnaissance Office, Have Blue, Howard Hughes.
Interviews: October 3, 2009; October 7, 2009; April 22, 2010 Thornton “T.D.” Barnes (1937-). Radar expert on multiple Area 51 projects.
CIA, EG&G, Atomic Energy Commission, NASA, Project Palladium, A-12 Oxcart, MiG, X-15 rocket plane, Apollo 1, NERVA, Nike missile system, Hercules missile system, Have Blue.
Interviews: November 3, 2008; November 13, 2008; December 20, 2009; December 21, 2009; January 7, 2009; March 4, 2009; March 5, 2009; March 6, 2009; April 24, 2009; April 25, 2009; May 7, 2009; May 8, 2009; May 26, 2009; June 12, 2009; June 13, 2009; June 24, 2009; June 25, 2009; July 14, 2009; September 7, 2009; September 9, 2009, October 7, 2009; October 8, 2009; October 9, 2009, December 14, 2009; December 15, 2009; December 16, 2009; January 13, 2010; January 14, 2010; February 11, 2010; February 12, 2010; March 6, 2010; June 29, 2010; written correspondence: November 2008-October 2010
Ken Swanson (1937-). Electronic warfare, electronic countermeasures expert, Red Dog/Blue Dog ECM System.
Interview: June 17, 2010
Sherre Lovick (1960-). Lockheed Skunk Works engineer. Lockheed Skunk Works, radar signature, defense contracting.
Interviews: February 7, 2008; March 6, 2008; April 3, 2008; April 29, 2008; May 29, 2008; June 6, 2008; July 2, 2008; July 23, 2008; July 30, 2008; August 6, 2008; August 21, 2008; June 28, 2009
Colonel Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut and the second man on the moon
Dr. Robert B. Abernethy, Pratt and Whitney engineer; invented the Oxcart’s J-58 engine
Joseph C. Behne Jr.: Former test director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Arthur Beidler, 67th Reconnaissance Tactical Squadron, Japan Colonel Adelbert W. “Buz” Carpenter, SR-71 pilot Harold B. Finger, former manager of AEC-NASA Space Nuclear
Propulsion Office
R. Cargill Hall, historian emeritus, National Reconnaissance Office
Milton M. Klein, former manager of AEC-NASA Space Nuclear Propulsion Office
Darwin Morgan: National Nuclear Security Administration, spokesman (current)
Dennis Nordquist, Pratt and Whitney mechanical engineer, J-58 engine
Grace Weismann: Joe Walker’s widow Charles “Chuck” Wilson: U-2 pilot
Changti “Robin” Yeh: U-2 pilot, Chinese Black Cat Squadron
Secondary Interviews and Correspondence
Steven Aftergood
Joerg Arnu
Doris Barnes
Stacy Slater Bernhardt Tim Brown
Fred Burton Lee Davidson Martha DeMarre Jeanne Donohue Stanton Friedman Norio Hayakawa Bill Irvine
George Knapp Tony Landis Eunice Layton
Colonel Ronald “Jack” Layton Bob Lazar
Ken Leghorn Jim Long
Dr. Craig Luther Tom Mahood Mary Martin
Millie Meierdierck Peter W. Merlin Martha Murphy Mary Jane Murphy Stella Murray
David Myhra James Oberg Ruth O’Donnell Thomas O’Donnell Major General Jude Pao John E. Pike
Gerald Posner Gary Powers Jr. Dr. Jeffrey Richelson Dr. David Robarge Louise Schalk P. W. Singer Barbara Slater Peter Slater
Peter Stockman Sharlene Weeks Stephen M. Younger G. Pascal Zachary
Current and former employees from the following organizations, agencies, and corporations were interviewed, some on the condition of anonymity.
National Security Agency (NSA) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Department of Energy (DOE) Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA)
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) United States Air Force (USAF)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) EG&G Special Projects Group Lockheed Martin Corporation Northrop Grumman
Raytheon
General Atomics Aeronautical Hughes Aircraft Company Summa Corporation
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