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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. 18 …Leghorn persuaded his superiors to submit his suggestion to the Pentagon for funding. He had not…
  • p. 20 …Meanwhile Leghorn, frustrated by the rejection of his original concept, had transferred to the Pentagon in…
  • p. 22 …become the assistant director of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program, was in the Pentagon on business…
  • p. 24 …for the construction and maintenance of 30 aircraft to a group of senior Pentagon officials that…
  • p. 26 …He had been present at Kelly Johnson's presentation on the CL-282 at the Pentagon…
  • p. 27 …with Strong in the Pentagon on 12 May 1954, six days before the Wright Air Development…
  • p. 52 …Late on the morning of 2 December 1954, Dulles told Bissell to go to the Pentagon…
  • p. 91 …He then briefed a high-level Pentagon panel that included the Secretary of the Air Force…
  • p. 92 …After a half hour passed, the base commander called the Pentagon to ask where the crippled…
  • p. 363 …CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II. New York: William Morrow, 1986. . The Soviet…

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## 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 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.