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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. 18 …Leghorn persuaded his superiors to submit his suggestion to the Pentagon for funding. He had not…
  • p. 20 …Meanwhile Leghorn, frustrated by the rejection of his original concept, had transferred to the Pentagon in…
  • 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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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.