The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; the U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974

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• p. 13 …Without their help a good deal of this story could never have become known. The assistance…
• p. 44 …the CL-282; in fact, there may never have been a formal decision as such. In…
• p. 74 …fly, Lockheed engineers had to solve problems never before encountered. Among these problems was the need…
• p. 84 …Flight tests continued, with the U-2 ascending to altitudes never before attained in sustained flight…
• p. 102 …put aside for further thought (which it never received), and Bissell's weather research cover remained…
• p. 138 …William Shelton, raised an important question that had never been considered: what would happen if an…
• p. 147 …Peninsula, because of bad weather and, therefore, never entered Soviet airspace. A second attempt to photograph…
• p. 157 …2 flight over the Black Sea that never violated Soviet airspace revealed 12 attempts at interception…
• p. 159 …Six of the men on board were killed and the remaining 11 were never heard from…
• p. 160 …Although this new Berlin crisis never became as threatening as the blockade of 1948-49, President…
• p. 165 …The Air Force never equipped its original U-2s with the J75 engines. $ ^{106} $ Detachment C…
• p. 189 …Powers never made it past Sverdlovsk. Four and a half hours into the mission, an SA…
• p. 194 …2 program in 1974, but RAF pilots never again conducted an overflight in an Agency U…
• p. 208 …very good reason, and such a situation never developed, in part because satellite photography gradually began…
• p. 210 …Since this never happened, Francis Gary Powers' flight on 1 May 1960 proved to be the…
• p. 223 …Responsibility for photographic coverage of Cuba remained with the Air Force; Agency pilots never flew another…
• p. 227 …Both were experienced with World War II aircraft, although Vito had never flown the rebels' fighter…
• p. 248 …It was short of both pilots and planes and never had more than three U-2s…
• p. 257 …This was an electronic intelligence mission that, in accordance with the new guidelines, never came closer…
• p. 264 Secret NOFORN Chapter 5 There was never another Agency U-2 mission from an aircraft carrier…
• p. 290 …the OXCART aircraft for its own use, never adopted the laminated vertical stabilizers. $ ^{18} $ ## THE OXCART…
• p. 294 …Scott employed concepts never before used in camera systems. These included the use of a reflecting…
• p. 298 …above water. $ ^{29}$ As it turned out, the J58 was never used in a Navy aircraft.
• p. 299 …This new delay was caused by leaking fuel tanks, a problem that would never be solved…
• p. 303 …the J58 had to reach performance levels never before achieved by a jet engine, while operating…
• p. 313 …even though the SKYLARK contingency plan was never put into effect. Since U-2s continued to…
• p. 316 …Moreover, the Soviets never operated the radars in the tracking and lockon modes, a fact that…
• p. 317 …strongly opposed it and the 303 Committee never forwarded the proposal to President Johnson. $ ^{59} $ The…
• p. 318 …The OXCART, which had never operated in heavy rain, taxied to the runway and took off…
• p. 326 …collector of strategic intelligence, the OXCART was never used for this purpose. Its brief deployment was…
• p. 328 …Yet, the President never went so far as to eliminate the overflight program. As Commander in…
• p. 333 …in 1962, its speed and altitude have never been equaled. The development of this aircraft also…
• p. 348 …System-II, a communications and navigation system, never worked properly and was canceled. System-III, a…
• p. 349 …a mission over the Soviet Union that never took place. Systems-XI through XV were ECM…