This history of the U-2's replacement provides an accessible overview of the A-12's development and use as an intelligence collector. The author has tried to make the narrative informative to lay readers while retaining enough technical detail to satisfy aeronautics and engineering readers. He has used sources listed in the bibliography and extensive files on the A-12 program in CIA Archives. This book has been augmented with a few recently declassified documents, including the designer's own history of the project and a list of other documents now available thanks to the Freedom of Information Act.
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David Robarge was the CIA Chief Historian when he published "Archangel" in September, 2007. Additional documentation has been added as parts two-four to produce the present volume.
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This flimsy booklet isn't worth it's exorbitant price, or even the shipping cost. As an aviation buff, with particular interest in the A-12 and it's offshoots, I was expecting an in-depth presentation with information from long-concealed CIA files providing a new view of this amazing machine. Instead, it was like reading an 8th grade-level summary of the program's history. If anyone remembers the elementary school newspaper "National Scholastic" from the '50s, where stories from the national news were condensed and simplified for consumption by children, they will have a good understanding of how this booklet relates to other works on this topic--this example is it's literary equivalent. If Amazon had a star rating system that included a "minus" star category, it would had been checked by me. Amazon's software apparently requires that at least one star must be checked in order for the review be judged "complete" and ready to post on-line.
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