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Science Fiction – A Space Odyssey From Earth

Smashwords  ISBN: 9780463729090
Kindle ISBN: 9781792778162
B&N ISBN: 9781987017182
Apple ID: 1447788269
191 Pages
For five years the four had trained together for the first manned flight to Mars. All, two men and two women, an American, a Canadian, a Japanese American, and an African-Australian were astronauts, having spent one tour on the International Space Station during training and another four months as they prepared an orbital launch of the SpaceCorp-owned spaceship Explorer. An over-burn of its rockets due to sabotage during departure dooms the Mars mission and leaves the Explorer and crew no choice but look for a new planet or asteroid to colonize. That’s what the US military and intelligence agencies wants everyone on Earth to think. In truth, the Explorer was on a dual mission, one to prepare a venue for colonization and the other a militarized mission to test a new device in space. There was no going back after they found what they were seeking.

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Nonfiction – Book One of the CIA Area 51 Chronicles

B&N: ISBN: 9781987016215
Amazon ISBN: 978-1547012930
Smashwords ISBN: 9781370812950
Apple ID: 1447792830

They all, President Truman, the Army, Air Force, Navy, and the Marine Corps feared the Central Intelligence Agency, yet the president tasked it with doing something that the Air Force would not do. That was to develop a manned overhead reconnaissance program to spy on Russia. Despite many technological and bureaucratic hurdles, the CIA, in eight months from contract to flying, and under budget, produces the revolutionary U-2 spy plane. A few months later, the CIA is overflying the Communist Soviet Union to disprove the feared bomber and missile gap between the two superpowers. The struggle between the CIA and the US Air Force to control the U-2 Angels and the persistent tension between the CIA and Presidents Truman and Eisenhower extends to the A-12 Archangels intended to replace the U-2. The CIA loses many lives of pilots flying out of the agency’s remote site in Nevada known today as Area 51.

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Nonfiction – Book Two of the CIA Area 51 Chronicles

B&N ISBN: 9781987016703
Amazon ISBN-13: 978-1547084876
Smashwords ISBN: 9781370283231
Apple ID 1447815807
402 pages
The combination of the shoot down of the U-2 over Russia in 1960, Russia’s moving into Cuba, and the war in Vietnam placed a heavy load on the Central Intelligence Agency to develop a replacement spy plane, unlike anything the world had ever seen before. The CIA reestablishes its station at Area 51 under the CIA’s new Directorate of Science and Technology where it develops America’s first stealth plane, the A-12 Archangel. Designed with slide-rule technology, the CIA produces what is still today the fastest and highest flying manned air-breathing aircraft ever.
The A-12 plane spends 18 months on a pylon situated on the dry Groom Lake during RCS, radar cross section evaluations by the CIA’s special projects team at Area 51. It flies 2,850 secret flights out of Area 51 during the flight tests known as Project OXCART. From Area 51, CIA Director Helms deploys people and three planes to a CIA outpost in Kadena, Okinawa where the CIA operationally overflies North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and North Korea during Operation BLACK SHIELD before the Air Force replacing it with the SR-71, the fourth member of the Blackbird family.

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Nonfiction – Book Three of the CIA Area 51 Chronicles

B&N ISBN: 9781987016680 
Amazon ISBN-13: 978-1547085217
Smashwords ISBN: 9781370421084
Apple ID: 1447817097
268 pages
The Central Intelligence Agency founded Area 51 to develop the revolutionary high-flying U-2 reconnaissance plane. Area 51 becomes a station for the Central Intelligence Agency’s newly formed Directorate of Science and Technology initiated to develop a successor to the U-2 Angel. Under Dr. Bud Wheelon, the Science and Technology Directorate making up the CIA’s 5th discipline for intelligence gathering, the CIA recruited specialists to form a special project team to design the A-12 Archangel as America’s first stealth plane. The CIA underwent many trials and tribulations using slide rule technology to successfully build and fly the highest and fastest plane operationally ever. The A-12 reconnaissance program ends when the US Air Force becomes operational with the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane.
By this time, the CIA’s Science and Technology Directorate has assembled a special projects team at Area 51 like no other in the world. Knowing that it will soon be out of the aerial reconnaissance business, the CIA had already made its unique facilities at the Area 51 station into a business of continuing with stealth development. It already had a new project needed by customers starting with the US Air Force and the Navy. Thus, the Area 51 station began the exploitation of the Soviet MiG planes that had mastered the aerial war in Vietnam. That was only the start of a highly classified technology laboratory, and business that has expanded to a level one can only imagine today. Recent declassification by the CIA now allows the telling by Barnes, an Area 51 veteran, of the CIA’s extraordinary accomplishments at Area 51 for almost a decade after all its planes stopped flying.

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ISBN: 9781467138055
Publisher: The History Press
192 Pages  60 Images
The United States and the Soviet Union are in a Cold War and have fought a proxy war in Korea. The Soviet Union is expanding Communism behind its closed borders and is competing with the United States in the Nuclear, weapons, and space races. The United States needs to know what the Soviet Union is up to behind the Iron Curtain, but to do so requires a revolutionary surveillance plane capable of overflying the Soviet Union undetected and high enough to escape the missiles of its Cold War enemy. When the US Air Force refuses to develop such a plane, the US president goes to the Central Intelligence Agency who undertakes the development of the U-2 plane. The CIA needs a remote location to secretly develop the U-2 and to train its pilots. The agency selects a remote site in Nevada along the nation’s western line of defense established in World War II. The secret location becomes known as Area 51.

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The Past Enshrinees of the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame

All sales proceeds go to the NVAHOF, a Nevada 501 (C)(3) Nonprofit Corporation

The Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame
Amazon ISBN: 978-1983342035
B&N ISBN: 9781983342035
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173 Pages
Nevada, the Battle Born state was the nation’s west coast line of defense during World War II. Ever since, Nevada has hosted the Army Air Corps, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, US Army, and the Navy for the development of the nation’s most highly classified activities and achievements that played a large part in winning the Cold War and all other wars in between. The state of Nevada has been a Mecca for independent people who wanted to do new and different things. Among the state’s unique accomplishments were the pioneering of space travel during which Nevada produced more astronauts than any other state. Nevada hosted the development of nuclear power for space exploration and as a deterrent to aggression by our enemies. The state’s development and testing of the accouterments of space, war, and defense have contributed to our nation’s successes. With the initial U-2 plane flight tests at Groom Lake, almost every flight established a new world altitude record for manned flight. The flights of the CIA’s A-12 spy plane at Groom Lake set world altitude and speed records that still stand today.

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The Secret Genesis of Area 51 was a favorite Father’s Day gift at the Costco store book signing by TD Barnes. Barnes reported that many of those purchased were for former or present workers at Area 51. Only now and after recent declassifications are it known that the CIA formed and ran Area 51 from 1955 to 1979 when the Air Force took over. The book is published by Arcadia/History Press and is available at book outlets worldwide.

While the original printing of The Angels contained a treasure trove of personal accounts of those who built and flew the CIA’s U-2 reconnaissance plane at Area 51, the reprint includes much more that families of those involved have subsequently contributed to the author. The revised reprint reveals much for the first time about crucial participants such as the CIA’s Dick Bissell, his deputy, BGen Jack Gibbs, Wilburn Rose, killed in the crash of his U-2 plane, and the Black Cats, the Republic of Korea U-2 pilots flying for the CIA. The Angels and its successors in the series, The Archangels and The Company Business are available in ebook and paperback at near all book outlets worldwide.

CIA Project OXCART
Title: CIA Project OXCART
Author: TD Barnes
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Amazon ISBN: 9781980948735
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Selecting a place called Area 51 in Nevada and beneath a shroud of secrecy, the Central Intelligence Agency first flew the U-2, the Angel knowing at the time that the Russians would most likely shoot it down within 18 months. To replace the U-2, the CIA designed America’s first stealth plane, using the slide rule to produce what today remains the highest flying and fastest manned, air-breathing aircraft ever flown, the A-12 Archangel. The agency named it the Oxcart, the first of a family of four Blackbird planes. At Area 51, the CIA flew the Oxcart on 2,850 sorties, some faster than a rifle bullet and up to 90,000 feet that remained unknown to the world for decades to come. Now, after over 50 years the story can be told about Project OXCART at Area 51.

Soaring with the Eagles by TD Barnes distribution now includes E-Books at Smashwords, Nook, iTunes, KOBO, Apple, Inktera, Baker, Library Direct, Baker-Taylor, Overdrive, and Amazon with distribution in the USA, UK Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.

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For half a century, his family and friends never knew he worked on special projects at Area 51 for the CIA. Barnes, an Area 51 and Cold War veteran tells what brought him from a desolate childhood on a remote ranch in the West Texas Panhandle, and through an Army career to Area 51 to serve the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology.
Soaring with the Eagles is a story about how the Central Intelligence Agency selected him during the Cold War while recruiting high achievers into its new Directorate of Science and Technology on station at Area 51.
Only since the CIA recently declassified how it secretly formed Area 51 can renown Area 51 veteran, TD Barnes publish his autobiography, Soaring with the Eagles. Barnes provides an exciting account of his career of secrecy, secrets that his family endured and supported for half a century while not knowing where he worked, what he did, or for whom. Barnes shares the family sacrifices and achievements along the way. All they knew was that with him, they soared with eagles, be it military, with NASA, in his intelligence career, and in private business.

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