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The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; the U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974
Central Intelligence Agency · 1900-01-01 · 406 pages · text by OCR
This is a 1992 CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, originally classified Secret NOFORN and approved for release in 2013. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and the two aircraft it developed, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. The history covers the U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union, the 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers and later operations in Asia and Latin America. It also includes a section on U-2s, UFOs and Operation BLUE BOOK.
“Cooper”11 pages
- p. 7 …320
Cooperation With the Air Force... 321
Impact of the Overhead Reconnaissance Program on the CIA…
- p. 91 …Early in the program Bissell and Ritland had foreseen such an emergency and, with the cooperation…
- p. 95 …of their mission kept the level of cooperation high. The group always attempted to reach a…
- p. 143 …deception project since its early days, he cooperated reluctantly because he disliked adding attachments that made…
- p. 167 …By 1957 cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States had expanded to include frequent…
- p. 169 …was a logical extension of the close cooperation that already existed between the two countries on…
- p. 195 …2 affair and hoping to obtain international cooperation for its space program, decided to end its…
- p. 196 …as possible while giving the appearance of cooperating with his captors. To extract the maximum propaganda…
- p. 287 …by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier (EG&G) in cooperation with the Scientific Engineering Institute at a small…
- p. 302 …Halaby cooperated fully with the Agency and personally briefed all FAA regional chiefs on how to…
- p. 334 …The cooperation between the Agency and the Air Force that began with the U-2 and…
underwent these modifications, Detachment G pilots began undergoing training in landing on aircraft carriers. The first successful carrier landing took place on 2 March 1964. $ ^{69} $
## Use of Carrier-Based U-2 To Film a French Nuclear Test Site
U-2 on the USS Kitty Hawk, 5 August 1963
Within a few months after the completion of carrier testing, one of the carrier-modified U-2s conducted an operation in the Pacific. Its mission was to gather information on the activities of an ally. In Not linked to a story yet.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.