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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. 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…
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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.