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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.

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“Headquarters”25 pages

  • p. 22 …Air Force headquarters soon approved Martin's proposal to modify the B-57 and was very…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 55 Secret NOFORN Chapter 2 42 The Matomic Building total of 357 personnel divided among project headquarters…
  • p. 56 …until it moved into the new CIA Headquarters building at Langley in March 1962. The final…
  • p. 73 …On 3 August 1955, Dulles and Twining met at SAC headquarters in Omaha to sign the…
  • p. 85 …Frequent flights were also necessary to bring in supplies and visitors from contractors and headquarters. Therefore…
  • p. 102 …U-2 project officer, the Air Force Headquarters project officer, and NACA's top official, Dr…
  • p. 107 …did not have to report to higher headquarters. WRSP-1, known within the Agency as Detachment…
  • p. 117 …Late on the evening of 3 July, Bissell went to project headquarters in the Matomic Building…
  • p. 127 …The PARAMOUNT Committee worked inside PID headquarters in the Steuart Building. Composed of members from CIA…
  • p. 128 …Lundahl and Reber flew from the United Kingdom to US Air Force Europe headquarters in Wiesbaden…
  • p. 138 …later and promptly reported the conversation to headquarters. When details of Vito's close call reached…
  • p. 153 …of Detachment A achieved excellent results, project headquarters had already decided that Western Europe was not…
  • p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
  • p. 191 …commander at Adana, to Air Force Europe headquarters, to replace the cover story that had been…
  • p. 194 …Because the new government had not been briefed on the U-2, Project Headquarters refused to…
  • p. 205 …its own building to the new CIA Headquarters at Langley. Soon afterward, Col. Stanley W. Beerli…
  • p. 233 …On 6 June 1960, project headquarters decided on a phased-out withdrawal of Detachment C between…
  • p. 235 …Airport, the pilot reported the incident to Headquarters. The Office of Security immediately contacted the Pennsylvania…
  • p. 312 …Project headquarters therefore began preparing contingency plans (Project SKYLARK) for the possible employment of OXCART over…
  • p. 319 …To ensure secure communications between Headquarters and Kadena. A typical mission over North Vietnam required refueling…
  • p. 323 …Project headquarters informed Deputy Defense Secretary Vance on 10 January 1967 that the A-12s would…
  • p. 324 …President Johnson confirmed this decision on 21 May. $ ^{69} $ Project headquarters selected 8 June 1968 as…
  • p. 334 …Air Force personnel served at all levels of the reconnaissance program, from project headquarters to the…
  • p. 365 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (Top Secret Codeword). Interview with…
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Index

374

National Security Council Intelligence Directive (NSCID) 191

Nationalist China 319,215,224,226,229,236

Nationalist Chinese

201, 205, 222-226,

229-230, 234-237, 239-240,

243, 245-246, 253, 257, 319

Air Force

223, 225

insignia

225

pilots

319, 223, 230, 235, 243, 246, 253

U-2

205, 223-224, 229, 246

Navajo missile 22

Naval Air Station at Atsugi, Japan 134

naval quarantine 210

Nehru, Jawaharlal

231-233

Nelson, Norman 68

Nevada 56-57,341,113,130-131,133,149 182,241,274,283,286,290,295 297,302-303,311

Nevada Proving Ground 56,241

New Delhi, India 232

Ngo Dinh Diem

230

NICE GIRL 310

nickel-cadmium batteries 240

Nile River 119

NIMBUS

200

1973 Middle East war 256,320

9th Tactical Air Force

330

nitrogen

64

Nixon, Richard M.

245-246, 256-257, 333

Nobel Prize

332

North American Air Defense

Command (NORAD)

289

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO)

20, 329, 87, 148, 172

radars

87

North Island Naval Base, California

248

North Korea

4, 233, 237, 242, 307

North Vietnam

190, 221-222, 230-231, 233, 243,

246-247, 301, 304-307, 311, 336, 342

North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA)

231

Northrop Aviation

259

Norton, Garrison

14-15, 31, 70, 260, 331

Norwalk, Connecticut

50

Notre Dame University

7

Novaya Zemlya

172

Novokuznetsk, Soviet Union

138

nuclear energy

39, 81, 225

Nuclear Energy Division

39

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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.