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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.

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“US Navy”15 pages

  • 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…
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 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.