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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. 12 later, at press conferences in February and July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson revealed the existence…
  • p. 98 …The Soviet Union sent strongly worded protest notes to the United States and the nations from…
  • p. 102 …not only press releases and the public line to be taken, but also the suspension of…
  • p. 112 …at a press conference that the Soviet Union might be ahead of the United States in…
  • p. 167 Secret NOFORN become involved in the U-2 project in September 1956, when the United States…
  • p. 174 …McElroy stressed that the gap would be temporary and that at its end the United States…
  • p. 183 …On the 9 April overflight, the U-2's ELINT-collection unit (System VI) indicated Soviet…
  • p. 195 …in the press about the presence of "spyplanes" on Japanese territory, asked the United States to…
  • p. 315 …To preserve the secrecy of the OXCART program, the Air Force informed the press that an…
  • p. 328 …at times when the press and Congress alleged that the United States was falling behind the…
  • p. 362 …Smithsonian Institute Press, 1985. Khrushchev, Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co…
  • p. 401 …United Kingdom (See Great Britain) United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154 United Nations 20 United Press International…
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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.