How CIA’s Covert Financing Soared Lockheed Martin’s A-12 Oxcart to New Heights

Emerging in a groundbreaking era of aviation, the A-12 Oxcart, cloaked in secrecy and financed through clandestine channels, represented a seismic shift in technological prowess, epitomizing the Cold War’s quest for supremacy and laying the foundation for future aviation marvels, all while pushing the boundaries of speed, altitude, and stealth.