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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.

  • p. 18 …This search soon led him to a British twin-engine medium bomber—the Canberra—built by…
  • p. 19 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 6 RAF Canberra Mark-PR3 division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
  • p. 22 …high-altitude performance of the B-57 Canberra. By January 1954 all three firms had submitted…
  • p. 36 …The RAF equipped the new Canberra PR7 with RollsRoyce Avon-109 engines and gave it long…
  • p. 37 …altitude flight being made to the US Canberra, the B-57. $ ^{41} $ ## The Intelligence Systems Panel…
  • p. 80 …production was needed to power specially configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first…
  • p. 122 …a reconnaissance version of the twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin…
  • p. 175 …2 and an Air Force RB-57D Canberra. The two aircraft cruised along the Soviet border…
  • p. 372 …310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332, 333 Canberra 5, 9, 23-24, 67, 109, 117, 162…
  • p. 401 …General 61 oxygen mask 62 RB-57D Canberra 162 Third Air Force 89 US deterrent force…
## Secret NOFORN

Index

368

Incirlik Airbase, Turkey

113, 181

India

148, 231-232, 237, 247, 319

Indian Parliament

232

Indian Springs, Nevada

274, 130, 132

Indonesia

211-212, 214, 319

Indonesian Air Force

212

inertial guidance systems

313

inflatable aircraft

262

infrared camera

282

infrared jammer

336

infrared scanner

238-239

inland waterways

82

instant-film camera

330

intelligence, collection of

16, 31-32, 80-81, 142, 146, 153,

162, 170, 182, 189, 211, 245, 253,

256, 282, 300, 303, 310, 315, 319,

322, 333, 336, 339

Intelligence and Research, Bureau of

209

intelligence community

2, 20, 33, 81, 138, 153, 160, 164-165,

170-171, 190, 196, 232-233, 254, 298,

303-304, 322, 339

Intelligence Coordination, Office of

81

intelligence requirements

25-26, 80-82, 114, 122, 154, 188-190,

226, 230, 233, 250, 253, 300, 332

Intelligence Requirements Officer

81

Intelligence Star

186

Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP)

21-22, 24-26, 30-32, 35, 327

intercept

87, 108, 124, 126-127, 142, 148,

162, 168, 170, 174, 176-177, 259

285, 317, 335

interceptor aircraft

93, 109, 124, 148, 176

intercontinental ballistic missile

137, 159

Interior, Department of the

254

international date line

134

International Geophysical Year

85

international law

110

interrogation

2-3, 183, 241

intruder

109

"invisible" dirigible

18

ion cloud

300

ionosphere

175

Iran

124, 133, 189

Iraq

133, 153

Iron Curtain

1, 17, 93, 95, 111, 126, 146

ISINGLASS

312

Isle of Pines

205

Itek Corporation 331,250 IX spaceflights 254

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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.