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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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Index

Follow-On Group (FOG)

77

Ford Foundation

15

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

192, 226, 292, 302, 330

forest fire detectors

238

Formosa

305 (See also Taiwan)

Fort Worth, Texas

50

40 Committee

188, 257

forward processing center

212

Foster, John

343

Franco-Prussian War

1

Frankfurt, Germany

2

Free Europe Committee

88

French atomic test area

250

French Indochina

222

## Secret NOFORN

French nuclear developments

249

French Polynesia

249

Frogman Incident

94

Fujisawa, Japan

218

Fukien Province

226, 229

## G

G-forces 79

G2A aircraft

263

Galbraith, John Kenneth

231-232

Gardner, Trevor N.

11, 13-15, 26-27, 32, 36, 40,

66, 81, 99, 327, 329, 331

Gates, Thomas

164

Gaza Strip

114

Geary, Leo P.

61, 66, 71, 73-74, 78, 152,

186, 196, 288, 329

General Dynamics

312

General Electric J73/GE-3

11

General Tire and Rubber Company

329

GENETRIX

84-85, 87-88

Geneva, Switzerland

96, 147, 159

Geneva Conference on Surprise Attac

159

Geneva summit conference

96

geological survey

254-255

German Luftwaffe

22

German scientists

2

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

120

Gibbs, Jack A.

61, 259-260

Giebelstadt Airbase, West Germany

95, 124, 140

Gilpatric, Roswell

207-208

Glennan, Keith

182

gliders

11

Glienecke Bridge

183

Goddard, George

330

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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.