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- Some time back, someone posted the following on Skunk Works Digest:
- (sorry, I only saved the posting, not the address headers)
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- >BASIC BLACK: The Air Force has a black tactical R&D program called "Project
- >Elegant Lady" which is so tightly held that neither its name or project
- >element number-PE 0208040F-appear in the service's budget requests for
- >fiscal year 1994. Other black programs, such as "Olympic," "Meridian" and
- >"Have Flag," all show up in the AF budget documents, with blanked-out
- >funding lines. "Have Flag's" PE number is close to that of "Elegant
- >Lady"-0208042F.
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- Perhaps, the reason it isn't listed is because the Air Force is being
- paid to perform some function covered under a Department of Defense
- budget item, instead of using its own funds. Here's what Department of Defense
- document DoD7045.7-H, "FYDP Program Structure", October 1993, had to say:
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- 0208040F Project ELEGANT LADY
- Air Force support to a classified DoD directed program. (Supporting JCS
- directives are classified SECRET, Special Access, and on file with the
- Assistant Director of Special Plans, Director of Plans (AF/XOXP), Room
- 4D111). Program description and details are available to appropriately
- cleared and authorized personnel on a need-to-know basis.
-
- By the way -- HAVE FLAG is a classified missile program going into active
- procurement. 0208xxxx programs are in a category known as "General Purpose
- Forces - Other"
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- Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com / PaulMcG@aol.com + other IDs
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