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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 GLM-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.

  • p. 4 …17 The BEACON HILL Report... 17 Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack... 19…
  • p. 13 Helen Hill Kleyla and Robert D. O'Hern. This 16-volume Top Secret Codeword study of…
  • p. 14 …view of the "other side of the hill." With the advent of dry film, it became…
  • p. 30 …this new advisory body. $ ^{29} $ ## The BEACON HILL Report In 1951 the Air Force sought even…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 32 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 document on 15 June 1952, the BEACON HILL Report advocated radical approaches…
  • p. 34 …Created in July 1953, the Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP) included several experts from the BEACON HILL…
  • p. 37 …the reconnaissance needs expressed in the BEACON HILL Report. Theoretically, he explained to the panel, any…
  • p. 44 …members had been discussing since the BEACON HILL and Intelligence Systems Panel meetings. James Baker was…
  • p. 45 …Having participated in the BEACON HILL Study and the Intelligence Systems Panel, several Project Three members…
  • p. 344 …He headed the Beacon Hill Panel in 1952 and later became director of Lincoln Laboratories. ## PARANGOSKY…
  • p. 345 …of several advisory panels, including the BEACON HILL project. He helped Baker decide what cameras to…
  • p. 364 …BEACON HILL Report: Problems of Air Force Intelligence and Reconnaissance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 June…
  • p. 371 …137 Beacon Hill 17-19,21,24,31-32,331-332 BEACON HILL Report 17,19…

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Secret NOFORN
Appendix D
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## APPENDIX D

Date	Mission	Pilot	Airfield	Unit	Payload	Route
22 August 1957	4049	Birkhead	Lahore	B	A-2	Merket Bazar, Kuldja, Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, Sinkiang
22 August 1957	4050	Cherbonneaux	Lahore	B	A-2	Lake Balkhash, Semipalatinsk, Barnaul, Prokop'yevsk, Novokuznetsk, Leninogorsk
28 August 1957	4058	Jones	Lahore	B	A-2	Dushanbe, Tashkent, Tyuratam, Kazalinsk, Aral Sea
10 September 1957	4059	Hall	Adana	B	A-2	Krasnovodsk, Gur'yev, Astrakhan', Tbilisi
16 September 1957	6008	Baker	Eielson	C	A-2	Kamchatka Peninsula, Milkovo
13 October 1957	2040	Stockman	Giebelstadt	A	A-2	Norway, Finland, Murmansk, Kandalaksha
1 March 1958	6011	Crull	Atsugi	C	A-2	Dal'nerechensk, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, Belagorsk, Komsomolsk, Sovetskaya Gavan'
9 July 1959	4125	Knutson	Peshawar	B	B	Tyuratam for suspected Sputnik launch
6 December 1959	8005	Robinsona	Peshawar	B	B	Kuybyshev, Kapustin Yar, Caucasus
5 February 1960	8009	MacArthura	Peshawar	B	B	Tyuratam, Kazan
9 April 1960	4155	Erickson	Peshawar	B	B	Lake Balkhash, Semipalatinsk, Kyzylespe, Dzhezhkazgan, Tyuratam
1 May 1960	4154	Powers	Peshawar	B	B	Tyuratam, Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk; downed by SAM

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