05-06-2014, 02:25 PM
If he was a double agent, his job could have been to learn how soon the Russians would be able to shoot down a U2. Or, since the U2 was fast becoming obsolete (with respect to Russia at least), they could have been trying to find out how long the Blackbird was going to work out. The Blackbird prototype first flew in April 1964, which suggests that it had been in development for a matter of years prior to that.