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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. 223 …Rudolph Anderson. This loss again illustrated the U-2's vulnerability to the SA-2 missile…
  • p. 369 …American Civil War 1 Amory, Robert 114 Anderson, Rudolph 210 Andoya, Norway 172 "Angel", 45, 50…

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## Secret NOFORN

## Index

356

Albania

140, 157

Albuquerque, New Mexico

74, 78-79

Allen, Edward L.

21

Almaza Airbase, Egypt

119

altimeters

59-60

altitude

1, 4-6, 7, 8-11, 12, 13-19, 22-26,

33-35, 39, 46-47, 49, 52, 54-55, 59,

61-64, 71-72, 74, 76, 79-80, 84, 87,

89, 93-94, 97, 101, 108, 125, 132,

142, 145, 148-149, 152, 156-157, 168,

175-179, 185, 207, 217-219, 229, 235,

240-241, 246-247, 251, 254, 259-260,

262, 263, 267, 268, 273, 277, 278-279,

284, 286, 288, 292, 294, 296-297, 304,

312-313, 320, 330, 339, 340, 343

aluminum

271

Ambon Island

214

American Civil War

1

Amory, Robert

114

Anderson, Rudolph

210

Andoya, Norway

172

"Angel",

45, 50, 66, 262

Anglo-French bombing campaign

117

Anglo-Soviet relations

94

antiaircraft missile

168

antiaircraft weapons

93, 148

antiballistic missile system

298, 303

antiradar studies

267, 274

Apollo VII

254

Applied Physics Division

339

AQUATONE

40-43, 59, 62, 66, 74, 77, 82, 88,

93, 96, 100, 108, 113, 115,

122, 134, 155

AQUILINE

304, 339-343

Arabs

256

Aral Sea

135

Arbenz, Jacobo

16

"Archangel-1"

262

"Archangel-2"

262

Area 51,

56, 72, 74-75, 77-78, 130-131,

133, 274, 283-284, 286, 291,

303, 305

Arizona

80

Arkansas

78

arms limitation negotiations

147

arms race

318

Army Air Corps

21, 56

Army Air Force

50, 328, 330

article 121

286, 288

article 126

296

article 133

296

article 341

66, 71, 131-132

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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.