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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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“Canberra”10 pages

  • 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…
## J

J-3 (Operations)

189

J75 power plant

152

jamming devices

300

Jammu and Kashmir

231

Japanese airspace

jet stream

94, 145

jet-propelled glider

11, 25

Johnson, Clarence L. (Kelly)

10-12, 13-14, 17, 24-26, 29-31,

34-36, 43-48, 50, 54, 56-57, 59,

64, 66-70, 76, 108, 130, 132, 149,

179, 185, 196, 247-248, 251, 262-263,

268, 271, 274, 277-279, 281, 284, 289,

293-297, 320, 329

Johnson, Lyndon B.

195, 236-237, 243, 293-295, 302,

304-305, 310-311, 332

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

122, 124, 126, 161, 187-190, 223,

234, 302

Joint Intelligence Committee

154

Joint Priorities Committee

154

Joint Reconnaissance Center (JRC)

189

Jones, Edwin K.

## K

K-21 framing cameras

49

K-38 camera

50-51, 53

Kadena Airbase, Okinawa, Japan

301

Kaliningrad missile plant

105

Kamchatka Peninsula

128, 134, 197

Kandalaksha, Soviet Union

176

Kapustin Yar, Soviet Union

16, 23-24, 109, 139, 143, 164

Kara Sea

142

Kazakh language

135

Kazakhstan

135

Kazan', Soviet Union

167

KC-135 tankers

71, 199

KEDLOCK

285

"Kelly's Angel"

66

KEMPSTER

300

Kennedy, John F.

186, 191-192, 195-196, 198, 207-208,

210, 225, 229, 232, 235, 292-293,

297-298, 330

Kennedy, Joseph W.

29

Kennedy, Robert

215

Kennedy administration

191, 195, 225

kerosene fuel

62

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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.