“Mission Control”28 pages
- p. 9 …The struggle between the CIA and the US Air Force to control the U-2 and…
- p. 72 …2 missions. Access to the photographs taken by the U-2 would be strictly controlled, which…
- p. 73 …This pact gave the Air Force responsibility for pilot selection and training, weather information, mission plotting…
- p. 81 …Before the start of a mission, the ground crew set the counters to indicate the total…
- p. 96 …All of the products from this project would be placed in the new control system. By…
- p. 100 …This was an S-band radar used by Soviet forces for early warning and ground-controlled…
- p. 113 …The President nevertheless maintained tight control over the program and authorized only 10 days of overflights…
- p. 128 …personnel controlling overseas photo processing and interpretation centers, which were normally under Air Force control. Further…
- p. 140 …Although the President would not allow U-2s to fly their primary mission of reconnaissance of…
- p. 142 …of the first series of U-2 missions. The CIA proprietary firm Scientific Engineering Institute was…
- p. 147 …To take advantage of these weaknesses, Detachment C staged three missions from Alaska into the Soviet…
- p. 156 …After these missions, penetration overflights became a rarity. There would be only six more during the…
- p. 167 …U-2 missions. To handle U-2 material, the British created a new control system, which…
- p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
- p. 169 …of authority for the joint program: "British missions are carried out on your authority and are…
- p. 170 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 3
May 1959, and used to fly weather missions on 7 and 8…
- p. 180 …As in December, the pilot was British, and the mission had been ordered by Prime Minister…
- p. 188 …some Soviet airborne-missile fire-control systems.
Operation GRAND SLAM, mission 4154 and the 24th deep…
- p. 191 …This revised cover story, along with a mission flight plan consistent with it, was sent to…
- p. 193 …the impression that he was not in control of his administration. On Wednesday, 11 May, the…
- p. 196 …with Abel's "wife" (probably his Soviet control) in East Germany. In November 1961, Acting DCI…
- p. 204 …in the DDP in order to maintain control of his overhead reconnaissance projects (the U-2…
- p. 220 …Strongly favoring Air Force control of the U-2 missions over Cuba, the DOD representatives called…
- p. 237 …In reality, however, the United States would maintain strict control over the missions to be flown…
- p. 335 …The flood of information that the U-2 missions gathered led to a major expansion of…
- p. 340 …In 1959 Bissell became Deputy Director for Plans but kept the reconnaissance projects under his control…
- p. 348 …System-I used S- and X-band ELINT receivers to collect ground-controlled intercept and air…
- p. 400 mission 2023
108
mission 2029
124
mission 3086
200
mission 3088
200
mission 3089
201
mission…
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Index
360
Carey, Howard 80,140
80, 140
Carter, John H. (Jack)
9-10
Carter, Marshall S.
186, 201, 205, 208-209, 299, 327
Caspian Sea
126
catheterized
64
cathode-ray tube
267
Caucasus Mountains
179
celestial "fixes"
76
Central Asia
135
Central Asian republics
176
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
29, 32, 59
Air Force competition
308
air operations
157, 191
General Counsel
44
Inspector General
190
proprietary
260, 129
proprietary firm
110, 129, 222, 260
U-2 program
257, 181
centrifugal force
177
CHALICE
155, 170, 182
Chamoun. Camille
152
Chance Vought Corporation
8
Charbatia, India 232-233,237,239
Charyk, Joseph V.
260,327-328
Chekiang Province 235
Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union 176
Cherbonneaux, James 127,138,214
Chinese Communist nuclear tests 240
Chinese mainland 319,215,222,226
Chinese nuclear reactors 238
Chinese nuclear test 237
Christ, David L.
339
Christian Science Monitor 18
Civil Air Transport 214,222
civilian supersonic transport (SST) 293