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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.

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“RAF”18 pages

  • p. 19 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 6 RAF Canberra Mark-PR3 division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
  • p. 36 …In 1952 the Royal Air Force (RAF) began Project ROBIN, which was designed to modify the…
  • p. 106 …The U-2s were to use Lakenheath AFB, an RAF base also used by the USAF…
  • p. 107 …inadvertently penetrated the British radar network, causing RAF fighters to scramble. Afterward the Air Ministry made…
  • p. 122 …twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin Yar in 1953. The US…
  • p. 156 …Range for the first time since the RAF's overflight in 1953, obtaining photographs of a…
  • p. 166 …In November 1958, four RAF officers arrived at Detachment B at Adana, thus beginning the United…
  • p. 167 …On 7 February 1958, Bissell instructed the to ask Air Vice Marshal MacDonald if the RAF…
  • p. 168 …MacDonald agreed to Bissell's proposal and began recruiting RAF pilots to fly the U-2…
  • p. 169 …Most flights by the RAF pilots in Detachment B, however, took place in the Middle East…
  • p. 177 …For almost a year, the RAF pilots of Detachment B had been ready to fly over…
  • p. 194 …A four-man unit of RAF U-2 pilots was stationed at Detachment G, Edwards AFB…
  • p. 200 …approval authority for missions conducted by the RAF pilots in Detachment B. The loss of Powers…
  • p. 316 …Project IDEALIST U-2 flying from an RAF facility in Great Britain. The OXCART would fly…
  • p. 332 …1960, the need for British participation lessened. RAF pilots henceforth flew only training or ferry missions…
  • p. 339 …Division PSAC President's Science Advisory Committee RAF Royal Air Force RFP Request for proposal SAB…
  • p. 351 …May 1960 4154 Powers Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk; downed by SAM $ ^{a} $ RAF pilot
  • p. 402 …Louis 29 Watertown Strip 57 Watton RAF Base. England 156 "weather plane" cover story 179 weather…
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.