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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 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 …This search soon led him to a British twin-engine medium bomber—the Canberra—built by…
  • p. 19 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 6 RAF Canberra Mark-PR3 division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
  • p. 22 …high-altitude performance of the B-57 Canberra. By January 1954 all three firms had submitted…
  • p. 36 …The RAF equipped the new Canberra PR7 with RollsRoyce Avon-109 engines and gave it long…
  • p. 37 …altitude flight being made to the US Canberra, the B-57. $ ^{41} $ ## The Intelligence Systems Panel…
  • p. 80 …production was needed to power specially configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first…
  • p. 122 …a reconnaissance version of the twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin…
  • p. 175 …2 and an Air Force RB-57D Canberra. The two aircraft cruised along the Soviet border…
  • p. 372 …310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332, 333 Canberra 5, 9, 23-24, 67, 109, 117, 162…
  • p. 401 …General 61 oxygen mask 62 RB-57D Canberra 162 Third Air Force 89 US deterrent force…
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 under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.