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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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“United Press”12 pages

  • p. 12 later, at press conferences in February and July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson revealed the existence…
  • p. 98 …The Soviet Union sent strongly worded protest notes to the United States and the nations from…
  • p. 102 …not only press releases and the public line to be taken, but also the suspension of…
  • p. 112 …at a press conference that the Soviet Union might be ahead of the United States in…
  • p. 167 Secret NOFORN become involved in the U-2 project in September 1956, when the United States…
  • p. 174 …McElroy stressed that the gap would be temporary and that at its end the United States…
  • p. 183 …On the 9 April overflight, the U-2's ELINT-collection unit (System VI) indicated Soviet…
  • p. 195 …in the press about the presence of "spyplanes" on Japanese territory, asked the United States to…
  • p. 315 …To preserve the secrecy of the OXCART program, the Air Force informed the press that an…
  • p. 328 …at times when the press and Congress alleged that the United States was falling behind the…
  • p. 362 …Smithsonian Institute Press, 1985. Khrushchev, Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co…
  • p. 401 …United Kingdom (See Great Britain) United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154 United Nations 20 United Press International…
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.