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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. 143 …Air Force contract to evaluate radars, EG&G operated a small testing facility at Indian Springs…
  • p. 244 …Then in August 1964, following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Air Force assumed responsibility for…
  • p. 381 …232 Indian Springs, Nevada 274, 130, 132 Indonesia 211-212, 214, 319 Indonesian Air Force 212…

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## Secret NOFORN

Index

364

Evang. Vilhelm

142

EVEN STEVEN

256

Executive Branch

109

exotic fuels

263

## F

F-100 fighter

71

F-102 fighter

270

F-104 fighter

10-11, 45, 329

F-106 fighter

270, 284

F-108A Rapier

285

F-111 fighter

312

Fairbanks, Alaska

134

Fairchild K-19 aircraft

49

FAN SONG acquisition radar

234

Far East

3, 110, 133-134, 140, 144, 190,

197, 201, 216, 224, 233-234, 242-243,

301, 305, 316, 320, 332.

"Fast Move" operations

216

Federal Aviation Administrator

289

Federal procurement cycle

44

"ferret" equipment

3, 335

ferret flights

123

FICON

22

Field Activities, Deputy for

192

5412 Committee

188, 226

fighter

4, 10, 14, 22, 66, 74-75, 108, 124,

146, 177, 182, 201, 214, 312, 317,

328-329

fighter conversion

22

Fili airframe plant

105

fillets

277, 288-289

film

1, 31-32, 49, 51-53, 55, 60, 100,

108, 114-115, 119-121, 145, 153, 179,

209, 215, 218, 221-222, 226, 235-236,

239, 241, 247, 249-250, 254, 281-282,

306, 310-311, 316, 330

film processing

60, 121, 247

film-transport system

55

Firewel Company

63

First Weather Reconnaissance Squadron.

Provisional (WRSP-1)

94

Fischer, C. W.

309

FISH

250, 263, 268-269, 312

FISH HAWK

249-250

Flickinger, Donald D.

62

FLIPTOP

198

"Flit"

62

Florida

198

flying boat

270

focal-length cameras

13

focal-length lenses

51

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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.