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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. 19 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 6 RAF Canberra Mark-PR3 division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
  • p. 36 …In 1952 the Royal Air Force (RAF) began Project ROBIN, which was designed to modify the…
  • p. 106 …The U-2s were to use Lakenheath AFB, an RAF base also used by the USAF…
  • p. 107 …inadvertently penetrated the British radar network, causing RAF fighters to scramble. Afterward the Air Ministry made…
  • p. 122 …twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin Yar in 1953. The US…
  • p. 156 …Range for the first time since the RAF's overflight in 1953, obtaining photographs of a…
  • p. 166 …In November 1958, four RAF officers arrived at Detachment B at Adana, thus beginning the United…
  • p. 167 …On 7 February 1958, Bissell instructed the to ask Air Vice Marshal MacDonald if the RAF…
  • p. 168 …MacDonald agreed to Bissell's proposal and began recruiting RAF pilots to fly the U-2…
  • p. 169 …Most flights by the RAF pilots in Detachment B, however, took place in the Middle East…
  • p. 177 …For almost a year, the RAF pilots of Detachment B had been ready to fly over…
  • p. 194 …A four-man unit of RAF U-2 pilots was stationed at Detachment G, Edwards AFB…
  • p. 200 …approval authority for missions conducted by the RAF pilots in Detachment B. The loss of Powers…
  • p. 316 …Project IDEALIST U-2 flying from an RAF facility in Great Britain. The OXCART would fly…
  • p. 332 …1960, the need for British participation lessened. RAF pilots henceforth flew only training or ferry missions…
  • p. 339 …Division PSAC President's Science Advisory Committee RAF Royal Air Force RFP Request for proposal SAB…
  • p. 351 …May 1960 4154 Powers Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk; downed by SAM $ ^{a} $ RAF pilot
  • p. 402 …Louis 29 Watertown Strip 57 Watton RAF Base. England 156 "weather plane" cover story 179 weather…
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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 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.