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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.

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  • p. 22 …become the assistant director of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program, was in the Pentagon on business…
  • p. 24 …for the construction and maintenance of 30 aircraft to a group of senior Pentagon officials that…
  • p. 26 …He had been present at Kelly Johnson's presentation on the CL-282 at the Pentagon…
  • p. 27 …with Strong in the Pentagon on 12 May 1954, six days before the Wright Air Development…
  • p. 52 …Late on the morning of 2 December 1954, Dulles told Bissell to go to the Pentagon…
  • p. 91 …He then briefed a high-level Pentagon panel that included the Secretary of the Air Force…
  • p. 92 …After a half hour passed, the base commander called the Pentagon to ask where the crippled…
  • p. 363 …CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II. New York: William Morrow, 1986. . The Soviet…

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## BIBLIOGRAPHY

## Published Works Cited

Aart, Dick van der. Aerial Espionage, Secret Intelligence Flights by East and West. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing, 1985.

"AF Cites Red Bomber Progress." Aviation Week, 24 May 1954, p.14.

"Alleged Overflight of Soviet Area by American Planes." US Department of State Bulletin, vol. 36, 28 January 1957, p. 135.

"Alleged Violations of Soviet Territory: Soviet Note of July 10, 1956 with U.S. Reply." US Department of State Bulletin, 30 July 1956, pp. 191-192.

Alsop, Stewart. The Center. New York: Popular Library, 1968.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower. Vol. 2, The President. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Andrew, Christopher. Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community. New York: Viking, 1986.

"Aviation Week Story Spurs Debate on US, Red Airpower Positions." Aviation Week, 30 May 1955, pp. 13-14.

Beschloss, Michael R. Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Brown, William H. "J58/SR-71 Propulsion Integration." Studies in Intelligence 26 (Summer 1982): pp. 17-18 (Unclassified).

Brugioni, Dino. The Cuban Missile Crisis-Phase I, 29 August-16 October 1962. DDS&T Historical Series, NPIC-1 (CIA: NPIC, 1971) (Secret).

Burrows, William E. Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security. New York: Random House, 1987.

"Can Soviets Take the Air Lead? What LeMay, Wilson, Ike Say." US News and World Report, 11 May 1956, pp. 108-114.

Chronology of the Office of Special Activities, 1954-1968. (CIA: DS&T, 1969) (Top Secret Codeword).

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.