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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

366

Goering, Hermann

66

Goldmark, Peter C.

18

golf balls

50

Goodpaster, Andrew J.

89, 97, 100, 105-106, 109, 120, 126

128, 144, 146, 167, 172, 187, 329

Grace, Frank G.

80

GRANDSLAM

170, 172, 174-175

Granger Company

336

GRC-127

205

Great Britain

3, 7, 23, 93-95, 112-113, 115, 117,

120, 153-156, 181, 303, 319

Air Ministry

94, 155

counterintelligence operative

94

Greyhound bus

289

Groom Lake

56, 66, 133

Groton

15

ground resolution

281-282, 250

Guatemala

157

"guided democracy"

212

Gulf Coast

254

Gulf of Finland

142

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

231

gust control

47

GUSTO

274

## H

H camera

244, 247, 253, 256, 282

Hagerstown, Maryland

9

Haiphong Harbor

247

Halaby, Najeeb E.

289

Hall, Wiliam

117, 119, 143

Haller-Raymond-Brown (HRB)

335

"handing off"

87

"hanger queen"

175

Harvard University

18, 21-22, 29, 50-51, 327, 129

Harvard College Observatory

21

Hawk-750 glider kit

342

haze filters

105

HBJARGON

175-176

HBJGO

176

heavy water

19

Helms, Richard M.

253, 256, 304-305, 309-310, 329

HEN HOUSE

168

HEN ROOST installations

168

Herter, Christian

127, 163

"hiding in the open"

55

high-acuity cameras

21, 50-51, 327

high-altitude air sampling (HASP)

219

high-altitude aircraft

4, 8, 16, 24, 59, 148, 304

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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.