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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. 22 …Air Force headquarters soon approved Martin's proposal to modify the B-57 and was very…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 55 Secret NOFORN Chapter 2 42 The Matomic Building total of 357 personnel divided among project headquarters…
  • p. 56 …until it moved into the new CIA Headquarters building at Langley in March 1962. The final…
  • p. 73 …On 3 August 1955, Dulles and Twining met at SAC headquarters in Omaha to sign the…
  • p. 85 …Frequent flights were also necessary to bring in supplies and visitors from contractors and headquarters. Therefore…
  • p. 102 …U-2 project officer, the Air Force Headquarters project officer, and NACA's top official, Dr…
  • p. 107 …did not have to report to higher headquarters. WRSP-1, known within the Agency as Detachment…
  • p. 117 …Late on the evening of 3 July, Bissell went to project headquarters in the Matomic Building…
  • p. 127 …The PARAMOUNT Committee worked inside PID headquarters in the Steuart Building. Composed of members from CIA…
  • p. 128 …Lundahl and Reber flew from the United Kingdom to US Air Force Europe headquarters in Wiesbaden…
  • p. 138 …later and promptly reported the conversation to headquarters. When details of Vito's close call reached…
  • p. 153 …of Detachment A achieved excellent results, project headquarters had already decided that Western Europe was not…
  • p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
  • p. 191 …commander at Adana, to Air Force Europe headquarters, to replace the cover story that had been…
  • p. 194 …Because the new government had not been briefed on the U-2, Project Headquarters refused to…
  • p. 205 …its own building to the new CIA Headquarters at Langley. Soon afterward, Col. Stanley W. Beerli…
  • p. 233 …On 6 June 1960, project headquarters decided on a phased-out withdrawal of Detachment C between…
  • p. 235 …Airport, the pilot reported the incident to Headquarters. The Office of Security immediately contacted the Pennsylvania…
  • p. 312 …Project headquarters therefore began preparing contingency plans (Project SKYLARK) for the possible employment of OXCART over…
  • p. 319 …To ensure secure communications between Headquarters and Kadena. A typical mission over North Vietnam required refueling…
  • p. 323 …Project headquarters informed Deputy Defense Secretary Vance on 10 January 1967 that the A-12s would…
  • p. 324 …President Johnson confirmed this decision on 21 May. $ ^{69} $ Project headquarters selected 8 June 1968 as…
  • p. 334 …Air Force personnel served at all levels of the reconnaissance program, from project headquarters to the…
  • p. 365 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (Top Secret Codeword). Interview with…

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article 345A

79

article 346

80

article 347

104

article 349

219

article 354

80

article 357

80

article 360

175, 217

article number

59

articles

20, 59, 99, 216

Ashford, Douglas E.

30

Asia

135, 190, 198, 211, 216, 221,

230, 233, 300-301, 310, 319

Asian Photographic Interpretation

229

aspheric lens

53

ASPIC

229

Aswan Dam

112

atmosphere

278, 25, 152, 182, 215

atmospheric testing

147

atomic bomb

19

Atomic Energy Commission

56, 133, 182, 241-242, 274

atomic energy facilities

233

ATR (Air Transport Rating)

187

Atsugi, Japan

134, 215, 218

autopilot

76, 341-342

Aviation Week

216

AXILLARY 342 Ayer, Frederick, Jr. 14-15,36,327

## B

B model camera

53

B-17 bomber

222

B-26 bomber

214

B-36 bomber

22, 50

B-47 bomber

72

B-52 bomber

20, 111, 291, 312

B-57 bomber

5, 8-9, 13, 15, 24, 35, 72

B-58 bomber

262, 269-270, 273

B-58 "Hustler" bomber

262

B-58A bomber

269

B-58B "Super Hustler"

262

B-58B bomber

263, 269

B-70 bomber

279, 293

BACKFIN

167

"badlands"

71

Baikal, Lake

128

Baird, Walter

56

Baird Associates

56

Baker, James G.

18, 21-25, 29-31, 46, 50-56,

108, 253, 282, 327, 332-333

Balkhash, Lake

138, 139

ballistic missiles

2, 201, 206, 299, 318

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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.