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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. 4 …17 The BEACON HILL Report... 17 Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack... 19…
  • p. 13 Helen Hill Kleyla and Robert D. O'Hern. This 16-volume Top Secret Codeword study of…
  • p. 14 …view of the "other side of the hill." With the advent of dry film, it became…
  • p. 30 …this new advisory body. $ ^{29} $ ## The BEACON HILL Report In 1951 the Air Force sought even…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 32 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 document on 15 June 1952, the BEACON HILL Report advocated radical approaches…
  • p. 34 …Created in July 1953, the Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP) included several experts from the BEACON HILL…
  • p. 37 …the reconnaissance needs expressed in the BEACON HILL Report. Theoretically, he explained to the panel, any…
  • p. 44 …members had been discussing since the BEACON HILL and Intelligence Systems Panel meetings. James Baker was…
  • p. 45 …Having participated in the BEACON HILL Study and the Intelligence Systems Panel, several Project Three members…
  • p. 344 …He headed the Beacon Hill Panel in 1952 and later became director of Lincoln Laboratories. ## PARANGOSKY…
  • p. 345 …of several advisory panels, including the BEACON HILL project. He helped Baker decide what cameras to…
  • p. 364 …BEACON HILL Report: Problems of Air Force Intelligence and Reconnaissance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 June…
  • p. 371 …137 Beacon Hill 17-19,21,24,31-32,331-332 BEACON HILL Report 17,19…

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Secret NOFORN

Index

362

## D

D-21 aircraft

291

Dalai Lama

216

Dallas, Texas

293

Damage Assessment Team

183

David Clark Company

62

Davis, Saville

18

Dayton, Ohio

4, 8

DC-6 aircraft

341

deep penetration overflights

316, 123

Defector Reception Center (DRC)

2

defectors

2

Defense, Department of

33, 61, 122, 145, 154, 161, 234,

236-237, 239, 267, 292-293, 301-302,

304, 310, 317

Defense, Deputy Secretary of

81, 127, 144, 161, 188, 207, 300, 309

Defense, Secretary of

161, 298

Defense Mobilization, Office of

17, 26

Science Advisory Committee

37

Del Rio, Texas

256, 198

Delta-II camera

250

denied territory

174, 188, 190

Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDC)

30, 36, 43, 327, 329, 88, 101, 122-123,

127, 139, 186-187, 201, 208-209, 223

Detachment A

94-95, 100-101, 106, 114, 116, 124-125

139-140, 142-143, 181, 316

Detachment B

113, 116, 120-121, 124-126, 133,

135, 139, 142-143, 152-153, 155-157,

164, 167, 181-182, 187, 316

Detachment C

133-134, 139, 143-144, 152, 157,

182, 211-212, 214-220, 224, 316

Detachment G

133, 181-182, 198-199, 211, 221-222,

230-233, 243, 248, 250-251, 254-257

Detachment H

225-226, 228-230, 232-237, 239-241,

243-246, 250-251, 255

Development, Deputy Chief of Staff for

7, 11, 17, 35

Development Planning, Office of

12

Development Projects Division (DPD)

157, 191

Development Projects Staff

40, 55-56, 132, 157, 191, 212, 331

Dirty-Birds

128, 130, 135

Donovan, Allen F.

18, 21, 24-26, 29-31, 35, 260, 328

Donovan, James

183

Doolittle, James H.

61, 167, 328

Douglas Aircraft

339

DRAGON

2

DRAGON LADY

77

drivers

59

drone

291, 343

Dryden, Hugh

89, 182

DuBridge, Lee

26-27

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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.