A-12 Oxcart by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD and Others
The A-12 was the penultimate success of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” and Clarence Leonard “Kelly” Johnson. His final design and implementation work include the U-2 Dragon Lady, the YF-12A, A-12 Oxcart (Archangel), and SR-71 Blackbird. All but the YF-12A were exceptional reconnaissance aircraft. The YF-12A was a ruse by Mr. Johnson to try to convince U.S.S.R. intelligence that the plane was a high altitude Mach-3 interceptor and thus could shoot down U.S.S.R. MIRV ballistic missiles in the reentry phase of their flights.
USAF Colonel Ken Collins Retired was in an A-12 Oxcart that had a mechanical failure causing a crash. Collins parachuted to safety at 25,000 feet. The CIA used sodium thiopental (truth serum) on Collins and I quote the CIA paper below: “Collins willingly took truth serum to help his memory.”
There are so many good papers that document the real work of the CIA on their official website. Every U. S. citizen and resident should be proud of our excellent intelligence partners past, present, and future: CIA, FBI, and NSA.
The NSA’s primary role is first and foremost electronic signals intelligence and interpretation. One of the FBI’s high priority jobs is counterintelligence which leads to arresting and interrogating foreign spies and potentially disloyal U.S. citizens. Finally, among the tasks assigned by law (National Security Act of 1947) is gathering intelligence on foreign soil and sending the results back to a station or headquarters for thorough analysis and investigation.
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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