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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. 143 …Air Force contract to evaluate radars, EG&G operated a small testing facility at Indian Springs…
  • p. 244 …Then in August 1964, following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Air Force assumed responsibility for…
  • p. 381 …232 Indian Springs, Nevada 274, 130, 132 Indonesia 211-212, 214, 319 Indonesian Air Force 212…

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A-1 camera 50

A-2 aircraft 262-263

A-2 camera 53, 77, 100, 104-105, 108

A-3 aircraft 263

A-11 268, 294

A-12 271, 273-274, 277-278, 281, 283-286, 289-292, 294-297, 299, 302-305, 307-311, 329

Abel, Rudolf 183, 332

Ad Hoc Requirements Committee 81, 114, 188-189, 332

Adana, Turkey 113

Adkins, Charles N.

342

Administration (East) Building

42

advanced antiballistic-missile (ABM)

139

aerial cameras

13, 31, 49, 329

aerial lenses

327

aerial photography

3, 13, 33, 49, 96, 119

aerial tankers

313

aerodynamic lift

248, 277

aerodynamic structural tests

274

aerodynamicist

342

Aerospace Corporation

328

Afghanistan

126, 170, 176, 189

afterburner plume

271

ailerons

47, 69

Air Research and

Development Command

5, 8

Air Staff for Intelligence

154

Air Weather Service

89, 94

air-cooled reactor

239

air-inlet system

291

air-to-air missiles

285, 336

air-traffic controllers

72-73, 289

Air/Maritime Division (AMD)

73

aircraft carrier

145, 247, 250

airfields

82, 95-96, 105, 117, 153, 216,

221, 226, 317

airframe

5, 8, 10, 24, 26, 48, 56, 71,

105, 132-133, 248, 259, 274, 279,

286, 289

airframe contractors

259

airspace

3-4, 19, 127, 134, 142, 144-147,

152-153, 182, 231, 239, 241,

303, 306, 318, 322

airspeed

68, 76, 199, 235, 295

Alaska 133-134,145,316

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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.