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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. 11 …At great risk, US Air Force and Navy aircraft had been conducting peripheral reconnaissance and shallow…
  • p. 16 …As a result, in the late 1940s, the US Air Force and Navy began trying to…
  • p. 17 …Two months later, on 7 October 1952, Soviet fighter aircraft stalked and shot down a US…
  • p. 72 On 29 April 1955, Richard Bissell signed an agreement with the Air Force and the Navy…
  • p. 94 …The committee issued its list of targets for the use of the entire intelligence community using…
  • p. 147 …The Agency then turned to the Navy, which granted permission for Detachment C to use the…
  • p. 180 …James Doolittle urged President Eisenhower to use overflights of the Soviet Union to the maximum degree…
  • p. 223 …returned by Air Force and Navy reconnaissance aircraft. President Kennedy used NPIC photographs to illustrate his…
  • p. 273 …Charyk, and his Navy counterpart, Garrison Norton. Designers from several aircraft manufacturers also attended some of…
  • p. 283 …This engine had originally been developed for the Navy's large, jet-powered flying boat, the…
  • p. 297 …The need for additional buildings on the base was met by the Navy. Three surplus Navy…
  • p. 298 …After hearing Bissell and Holcomb's suggestion that the J58 might be used in future Navy…
  • p. 348 …Following modifications to make System-VII suitable for use by the Navy, the designation was changed…
  • p. 353 …AQUILINE prototype at Randsburg Wash on the US Navy's Naval Ordnance Test Station at China…
  • p. 401 …328 US Marine Corps Reserve 14 US Military Academy at West Point 329 US Navy Chief…
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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.