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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. 4 …17 The BEACON HILL Report... 17 Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack... 19…
  • p. 13 Helen Hill Kleyla and Robert D. O'Hern. This 16-volume Top Secret Codeword study of…
  • p. 14 …view of the "other side of the hill." With the advent of dry film, it became…
  • p. 30 …this new advisory body. $ ^{29} $ ## The BEACON HILL Report In 1951 the Air Force sought even…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 32 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 document on 15 June 1952, the BEACON HILL Report advocated radical approaches…
  • p. 34 …Created in July 1953, the Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP) included several experts from the BEACON HILL…
  • p. 37 …the reconnaissance needs expressed in the BEACON HILL Report. Theoretically, he explained to the panel, any…
  • p. 44 …members had been discussing since the BEACON HILL and Intelligence Systems Panel meetings. James Baker was…
  • p. 45 …Having participated in the BEACON HILL Study and the Intelligence Systems Panel, several Project Three members…
  • p. 344 …He headed the Beacon Hill Panel in 1952 and later became director of Lincoln Laboratories. ## PARANGOSKY…
  • p. 345 …of several advisory panels, including the BEACON HILL project. He helped Baker decide what cameras to…
  • p. 364 …BEACON HILL Report: Problems of Air Force Intelligence and Reconnaissance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 June…
  • p. 371 …137 Beacon Hill 17-19,21,24,31-32,331-332 BEACON HILL Report 17,19…

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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

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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.