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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. 18 …Leghorn persuaded his superiors to submit his suggestion to the Pentagon for funding. He had not…
  • p. 20 …Meanwhile Leghorn, frustrated by the rejection of his original concept, had transferred to the Pentagon in…
  • p. 22 …become the assistant director of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program, was in the Pentagon on business…
  • p. 24 …for the construction and maintenance of 30 aircraft to a group of senior Pentagon officials that…
  • p. 26 …He had been present at Kelly Johnson's presentation on the CL-282 at the Pentagon…
  • p. 27 …with Strong in the Pentagon on 12 May 1954, six days before the Wright Air Development…
  • p. 52 …Late on the morning of 2 December 1954, Dulles told Bissell to go to the Pentagon…
  • p. 91 …He then briefed a high-level Pentagon panel that included the Secretary of the Air Force…
  • p. 92 …After a half hour passed, the base commander called the Pentagon to ask where the crippled…
  • p. 363 …CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II. New York: William Morrow, 1986. . The Soviet…

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## Secret NOFORN

370

Khimki rocket-engine plant

105

Khrushchev, Nikita

94, 96, 100-101, 147, 160, 163-164,

168, 179-180, 299

Kiangsi Province

235

Kiangsu Province

229

KICK OFF

198

Kickapoo Joy Juice

45

Kiefer, Eugene P.

7, 9, 11, 260, 330

Killian, James R.

27, 29-30, 33-34, 89, 100, 191-192,

263, 292, 330

KINGFISH

270, 273

Kirkpatrick, Lyman B.

190

Kirov, Soviet Union

172, 176

Kirtland AFB

79

Kissinger, Henry

256

Kistiakowsky, George

171

Klein, Burton

11

Klyuchi, Soviet Union

134, 143

KNIFE EDGE

167

Knowles, Harold F.

344

Kohler, Foy D.

112

Koko Nor

233

Kola Peninsula

182

Kollman Instrument Company

59

Koon, Ralph E.

79

Korea, demilitarized zone (DMZ)

305 (See also North Korea)

Kotlas, Soviet Union

172

Krag, Jens Otto

299

Kratt, Jacob

65, 79, 116

Kremlin

123

Kunming, China 226

Kuybyshev, Soviet Union

164

KWCORK

113

KWEXTRA-00

59

KWGLITTER-00

59

Kyshtym, Soviet Union

176

## L

L'il Abner

47

L-pills

66,125

Lakenheath AFB, England 93

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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.