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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.

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  • p. 12 later, at press conferences in February and July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson revealed the existence…
  • p. 98 …The Soviet Union sent strongly worded protest notes to the United States and the nations from…
  • p. 102 …not only press releases and the public line to be taken, but also the suspension of…
  • p. 112 …at a press conference that the Soviet Union might be ahead of the United States in…
  • p. 167 Secret NOFORN become involved in the U-2 project in September 1956, when the United States…
  • p. 174 …McElroy stressed that the gap would be temporary and that at its end the United States…
  • p. 183 …On the 9 April overflight, the U-2's ELINT-collection unit (System VI) indicated Soviet…
  • p. 195 …in the press about the presence of "spyplanes" on Japanese territory, asked the United States to…
  • p. 315 …To preserve the secrecy of the OXCART program, the Air Force informed the press that an…
  • p. 328 …at times when the press and Congress alleged that the United States was falling behind the…
  • p. 362 …Smithsonian Institute Press, 1985. Khrushchev, Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co…
  • p. 401 …United Kingdom (See Great Britain) United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154 United Nations 20 United Press International…
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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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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.