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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

high-altitude balloon program

22

high-altitude photography

1, 55, 84

high-altitude photoreconnaissance

7

high-altitude reconnaissance

1, 4-5, 8-9, 13-14, 17, 19, 22-25,

33-34, 39, 49, 52, 55, 254, 262,

292, 312, 330

high-altitude weather plane

178

high-impact plastics

313

high-resolution cameras

4

high-resolution infrared scanner

238

high-speed buffet

76

high-speed reconnaissance aircraft

262-263, 270

HIGH WIRE

164

Hilsman, Roger

209

Hitchcock, Alfred

29

Hokkaido, Japan

4

Holcomb, William

285

Hollywood, California

29

Hong Kong

217

Hoover, Herbert, Jr.

123-124

horizontal stabilizers

47

Horner, Richard

70

Hornig, Donald F.

309

HOT SHOP

162

Houston, Lawrence R.

44

## Secret NOFORN

HR-333 camera 253

HRB-Singer Corporation

336

HTAUTOMAT

83, 115, 331

HTNAMABLE

110-111

human intelligence sources

2

Hungarian uprising

123

Hungary

101, 123

Hurricane Baseline Survey

254

Hycon Manufacturing Company

13, 50, 252

hydraulic fluid

279

hydraulic pump

279

hydrogen bomb

19-20, 242

hydrogen weapons

164

hydrogen-powered aircraft

263

hydrologists

254

## I

IBM CPC (card-programmed calculator)

52

IDEALIST

182, 210, 234, 303

IDEALIST U-2

303

Igarka, Soviet Union

3

ileitis

96

imagery

116, 179, 252-253, 255-256, 282,

298, 303, 310

impeller

291

"in-and-out" operations

205

in-flight refueling

198-200, 237, 302

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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.