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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. 11 …At great risk, US Air Force and Navy aircraft had been conducting peripheral reconnaissance and shallow…
  • p. 16 …As a result, in the late 1940s, the US Air Force and Navy began trying to…
  • p. 17 …Two months later, on 7 October 1952, Soviet fighter aircraft stalked and shot down a US…
  • p. 72 On 29 April 1955, Richard Bissell signed an agreement with the Air Force and the Navy…
  • p. 94 …The committee issued its list of targets for the use of the entire intelligence community using…
  • p. 147 …The Agency then turned to the Navy, which granted permission for Detachment C to use the…
  • p. 180 …James Doolittle urged President Eisenhower to use overflights of the Soviet Union to the maximum degree…
  • p. 223 …returned by Air Force and Navy reconnaissance aircraft. President Kennedy used NPIC photographs to illustrate his…
  • p. 273 …Charyk, and his Navy counterpart, Garrison Norton. Designers from several aircraft manufacturers also attended some of…
  • p. 283 …This engine had originally been developed for the Navy's large, jet-powered flying boat, the…
  • p. 297 …The need for additional buildings on the base was met by the Navy. Three surplus Navy…
  • p. 298 …After hearing Bissell and Holcomb's suggestion that the J58 might be used in future Navy…
  • p. 348 …Following modifications to make System-VII suitable for use by the Navy, the designation was changed…
  • p. 353 …AQUILINE prototype at Randsburg Wash on the US Navy's Naval Ordnance Test Station at China…
  • p. 401 …328 US Marine Corps Reserve 14 US Military Academy at West Point 329 US Navy Chief…
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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.