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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. 58 …in Lockheed's Advanced Development facility at Burbank, California, known as the Skunk Works. $ ^{10} $ Lockheed…
  • p. 85 …how to transfer Lockheed employees from Burbank to Area 51 without arousing a great deal of…
  • p. 287 …designed trailer truck that carried it from Burbank to Area 51. By 18 November 1959, the…
  • p. 296 …not test the OXCART aircraft at its Burbank facility, where the runway was too short and…
  • p. 297 …Construction began in September 1960; a C-47 shuttle service ferried work crews from Burbank to…
  • p. 299 …The plane left Burbank on 26 February 1962 and arrived at Area 51 two days later…
  • p. 304 …into the engine nacelles during assembly at Burbank were sucked into the power plant during initial…
  • p. 372 …201,205,209,236,293 BUORL 22 Burbank, California 45 Secret NOFORN Burke, William 168,170…

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borax 121

Boston, Massachusetts 13,18,22,24,27,52,56 110,260

Boston camera 13

Boston University 22,24,52

Bowles, Chester 225

Brahmaputra Valley 231

bridges 82

Briglia, Frank 339

Briggs School 42

British and French fleets 116

British Guiana-Venezuela border 211

British overflight of the Soviet Union 23-24,164

British Parliament 94,232

British radar network 94

Brugioni, Dino 135,137

Budapest, Hungary 123

Budget, Bureau of the 267,308-310

Index

Budget, Director of the 40

Buffalo, New York 9,63

Bulganin. Nikolai 94,120

Bulgaria 101,124-125,140

Bundy, McGeorge 188,201,205,209,236,293

BUORL 22

Burbank, California 45

Secret NOFORN

Burke, William 168,170,174

Byelorussia 104,106

## C

C model camera 54

C-124 cargo planes

66, 135, 181, 219

Cabell, Charles P.

30, 36, 43, 88, 101, 122-123, 127,

139, 183, 223, 295, 327, 329

Cairo, Egypt

117, 119

Calcutta, India

232

California

9, 13, 24, 26, 36, 45, 50, 54, 56,

133, 182, 198, 200, 208, 221, 247,

251-252, 254-256, 295, 311, 340

California Institute of Technology

26

Cambodia

216, 230, 243

camera lenses

93

camera technicians

78

camera-carrying balloons

14, 18, 23, 84, 145

cameras

1, 3-4, 12-13, 21-22, 31, 44, 49-51,

53-55, 60, 77, 87, 196, 244, 281-282,

310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332, 333

Canberra

5, 9, 23-24, 67, 109, 117, 162

Cannon, Clarence

88

Capp, Al

45

cardiovascular system

62

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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.