Message posted by Thud on April 12, 2007 at 12:12:10 PST:

Former squadron commander Gail Peck initiated the program in the late 1970s when he was in the Pentagon and used his wife's name ”Peg” as part of its code name.

Getting funding was tricky, and Peck said turning a small Department of Energy (CIA) airstrip near Tonopah (Groom) into a fighter base for MiGs hinged on an even more secret program, the F-117 Stealth Fighter.

Thud

In Reply to: Re: Confessions of An Area 51 Employee posted by Ron on April 12, 2007 at 6:15:40 PST:

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