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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. 7 …320 Cooperation With the Air Force... 321 Impact of the Overhead Reconnaissance Program on the CIA…
  • p. 91 …Early in the program Bissell and Ritland had foreseen such an emergency and, with the cooperation…
  • p. 95 …of their mission kept the level of cooperation high. The group always attempted to reach a…
  • p. 143 …deception project since its early days, he cooperated reluctantly because he disliked adding attachments that made…
  • p. 167 …By 1957 cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States had expanded to include frequent…
  • p. 169 …was a logical extension of the close cooperation that already existed between the two countries on…
  • p. 195 …2 affair and hoping to obtain international cooperation for its space program, decided to end its…
  • p. 196 …as possible while giving the appearance of cooperating with his captors. To extract the maximum propaganda…
  • p. 287 …by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier (EG&G) in cooperation with the Scientific Engineering Institute at a small…
  • p. 302 …Halaby cooperated fully with the Agency and personally briefed all FAA regional chiefs on how to…
  • p. 334 …The cooperation between the Agency and the Air Force that began with the U-2 and…
## Secret NOFORN

Dulles, Allen

16-17, 30, 32-37, 39-40, 43-44, 56,

60, 73, 76, 80, 82, 86, 88, 93, 95, 97,

105-106, 109-111, 117, 120, 124, 127,

154, 161-162, 164-165, 167, 170, 180,

184, 189, 191, 214, 223-224, 260, 263,

295, 316-318, 327-328

Dulles, John Foster

20, 86, 109, 117, 122-123, 126

dummy corporations

44

Dunaway, Glendon

65

Index

## E

363

Earman, J. S.

206

earth's atmosphere

278

East Berlin riots of June 1953

16

East Germany

100-101, 142, 147, 183, 303

Eastern Europe

2, 84, 88-89, 100-101, 106, 110,

123-124, 126-127, 139-140, 142,

144, 304, 316

Eastman Kodak

4, 31-32

eavesdropping

2

EBONY

222

Eden, Anthony

93-95

Edens, Buster

135

Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier (EG&G)

130, 274

Edwards AFB, California

133, 149, 181, 198, 200, 211, 230

Eielson AFB, Alaska

133-134

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19, 26-27, 33-37, 39, 44, 56, 60, 73,

85-86, 88, 94-101, 104-106, 109-110

112, 114, 116-117, 119-120, 122-124

126-129, 135, 139, 143-147, 152-156

159-164, 167-168, 170-172, 180-181,

187, 191-192, 195, 211-212, 214, 221,

224, 263, 267, 270, 277, 297, 315-317,

322, 328-330

electromagnetic energy

335

electromagnetic pulse indicator

240

electronic countermeasures (ECM)

207, 239, 304, 313, 317, 335-336

electronic intelligence (ELINT)

114, 126, 144, 146, 153, 162-163,

175, 182, 215, 242, 244, 303, 335

electronic intercept

126, 317

electronic sensors

292

electronic warfare

300

ELINT collection

142, 339

ELINT emanations

304

ELINT-collection gear

310

ELINT-collection unit (System VI)

170

Emergency Preparedness, Office of

254

engine nacelles

291

engineers

9-10, 12, 17, 25, 43, 45, 55, 61,

71, 255, 260, 269, 286, 339, 343

English Electric Company

5, 23

epoxy resin

277, 289

EQUINE

82

Ericson, Robert J.

80

espionage

1

Estonia

303, 339

Eurasian landmass

145

Europe

2, 4, 20, 23, 84-85, 88-89, 93, 100-10

106, 110, 115, 123-124, 126-127, 139

142, 144, 148, 178, 255, 304, 316, 33

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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.