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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. 4 …17 The BEACON HILL Report... 17 Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack... 19…
  • p. 13 Helen Hill Kleyla and Robert D. O'Hern. This 16-volume Top Secret Codeword study of…
  • p. 14 …view of the "other side of the hill." With the advent of dry film, it became…
  • p. 30 …this new advisory body. $ ^{29} $ ## The BEACON HILL Report In 1951 the Air Force sought even…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 32 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 document on 15 June 1952, the BEACON HILL Report advocated radical approaches…
  • p. 34 …Created in July 1953, the Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP) included several experts from the BEACON HILL…
  • p. 37 …the reconnaissance needs expressed in the BEACON HILL Report. Theoretically, he explained to the panel, any…
  • p. 44 …members had been discussing since the BEACON HILL and Intelligence Systems Panel meetings. James Baker was…
  • p. 45 …Having participated in the BEACON HILL Study and the Intelligence Systems Panel, several Project Three members…
  • p. 344 …He headed the Beacon Hill Panel in 1952 and later became director of Lincoln Laboratories. ## PARANGOSKY…
  • p. 345 …of several advisory panels, including the BEACON HILL project. He helped Baker decide what cameras to…
  • p. 364 …BEACON HILL Report: Problems of Air Force Intelligence and Reconnaissance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 June…
  • p. 371 …137 Beacon Hill 17-19,21,24,31-32,331-332 BEACON HILL Report 17,19…

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meteorologists

42, 87

MI-6

93, 154

Michigan, University of, School of

329

microwave reconnaissance

19

Middle East overflights

114, 116

MiG aircraft

336

MiG-15

108, 148

MiG-17

5, 108, 148

MiG-19

148

MiG-21

148, 237, 244

Military Adviser to the President

188

Military Air Transport Service

72

MILL TOWN

216

Miller, Stewart E.

18, 21, 39-40, 55-56, 331

"million-dollar" photography

111

miniaturization

339

mirrors

54-55

"missile gap"

157, 159, 317

missiles

2, 22, 81, 98-99, 137, 139, 149,

160-161, 165, 167, 171, 201, 205-206,

209, 226, 239, 243, 257, 285, 299, 301,

303-304, 306-307, 315, 317-318, 336, 339

Mississippi River

78, 310

MKNAOMI

66

Monthly Activities Book

189

## Secret NOFORN

Index

moon

163

Morotai

214

Moscow, Soviet Union

3, 20, 85, 94, 101, 105-106, 109,

124, 143, 145, 160, 167, 177, 179, 318

MUDLARK

178

multiengine aircraft

12,24-25

multiple sensors

22

Mururoa Atoll 250 Myasishchev-4 (see Bison bomber)

## N

Nagy, Imre

123

Nanking, China

228

Narcotics, Bureau of

254-255

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

112, 153

National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics

89, 94

National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA)

178-179, 254

National Air & Space Museum

64

National Intelligence Estimates

19, 235

national intelligence objectives

81

National Security Agency

81, 114, 134, 185, 327

National Security Bureau

224

National Security Council

27, 294, 161, 167, 187-188, 191, 197, 212

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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.