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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…
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 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.