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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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## Secret NOFORN

Index

372

Luna 2 rocket 163

Lundahl, Arthur C.

82, 114-115, 117, 119, 121, 135,

142, 154, 191, 209, 241, 331

## M

M Building 83

M-12 aircraft 291

M-195 aircraft 9

MacArthur, John 167

Macdonald, Duncan E. 22, 154-155

Macmillan, Harold 155-156, 164, 167, 187

Malaya Sazanka, Soviet Union 144

Malinovsky, Rodion 160

Manchuria

229, 233, 237

Mandrake

148

Manhattan Project

329

Manila, Philippines

311

manned space program

62

March AFB, California

75

Mark-30

335

Marquardt ramjets

268

Marr, William H.

72

Mars

79

Marshall Plan 15,327

Martin, Glenn L., Aircraft Corporation

5, 8-9, 24, 270

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4, 15, 18, 27, 30, 110, 129-130, 327,

330, 332-333

Matomic Building

42, 104

MATS

72

Matsu Islands

229

May Day

20, 176, 191, 195

MC-2 and MC-3 partial-pressure suits

64

McConaughy, Walter P.

257

McCone, John A.

184-186, 192, 195, 197, 201, 206-207,

209, 232-234, 236-238, 240, 292-294,

296, 298, 300, 327, 331

McCoy, Frederick

95

McCullough Corporation

339

McDonnell Aircraft

312

McElroy, Neil

146, 161-162

McFadden, William

54

McMahon, John N.

186

McNamara, Robert

229, 234, 236, 238, 253, 285, 292-293,

298, 300-301

mechanical fuel totalizer/counters

68

Mediterranean Sea

114, 116, 121, 140, 142, 153

medium-range ballistic missiles

201, 206

Melpar, Incorporated

342

Menderes, Adnan

112, 181

mercenary pilots

214

metal fatigue

metal fatigue

242

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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.