“Mission Control”28 pages
- p. 9 …The struggle between the CIA and the US Air Force to control the U-2 and…
- p. 72 …2 missions. Access to the photographs taken by the U-2 would be strictly controlled, which…
- p. 73 …This pact gave the Air Force responsibility for pilot selection and training, weather information, mission plotting…
- p. 81 …Before the start of a mission, the ground crew set the counters to indicate the total…
- p. 96 …All of the products from this project would be placed in the new control system. By…
- p. 100 …This was an S-band radar used by Soviet forces for early warning and ground-controlled…
- p. 113 …The President nevertheless maintained tight control over the program and authorized only 10 days of overflights…
- p. 128 …personnel controlling overseas photo processing and interpretation centers, which were normally under Air Force control. Further…
- p. 140 …Although the President would not allow U-2s to fly their primary mission of reconnaissance of…
- p. 142 …of the first series of U-2 missions. The CIA proprietary firm Scientific Engineering Institute was…
- p. 147 …To take advantage of these weaknesses, Detachment C staged three missions from Alaska into the Soviet…
- p. 156 …After these missions, penetration overflights became a rarity. There would be only six more during the…
- p. 167 …U-2 missions. To handle U-2 material, the British created a new control system, which…
- p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
- p. 169 …of authority for the joint program: "British missions are carried out on your authority and are…
- p. 170 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 3
May 1959, and used to fly weather missions on 7 and 8…
- p. 180 …As in December, the pilot was British, and the mission had been ordered by Prime Minister…
- p. 188 …some Soviet airborne-missile fire-control systems.
Operation GRAND SLAM, mission 4154 and the 24th deep…
- p. 191 …This revised cover story, along with a mission flight plan consistent with it, was sent to…
- p. 193 …the impression that he was not in control of his administration. On Wednesday, 11 May, the…
- p. 196 …with Abel's "wife" (probably his Soviet control) in East Germany. In November 1961, Acting DCI…
- p. 204 …in the DDP in order to maintain control of his overhead reconnaissance projects (the U-2…
- p. 220 …Strongly favoring Air Force control of the U-2 missions over Cuba, the DOD representatives called…
- p. 237 …In reality, however, the United States would maintain strict control over the missions to be flown…
- p. 335 …The flood of information that the U-2 missions gathered led to a major expansion of…
- p. 340 …In 1959 Bissell became Deputy Director for Plans but kept the reconnaissance projects under his control…
- p. 348 …System-I used S- and X-band ELINT receivers to collect ground-controlled intercept and air…
- p. 400 mission 2023
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mission 2029
124
mission 3086
200
mission 3088
200
mission 3089
201
mission…
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nuclear fireball
240
nuclear resonance
332
nuclear strike
292
nuclear testing moratorium
317
nuclear tests
133,147,240
nuclear weapons
2,19-20,99,147,226,
238,240,317
## O
OARFISH
44
O'Donnell, Emmett (Rosy)
74
oblique photography 135,189,244 Offshore Islands Crisis 215-216
OILSTONE 60-61
Old Executive Office Building
27
OLIVE HARVEST
257
Omaha, Nebraska
60
112A camera
250
112B camera
250, 252
"Open-Skies"
96
optical distortion 282
Optical Research Laboratory
21-22
optical systems
52
order-of-battle
82,134,322
"Oscar-Sierra" unit
234
over-the-horizon radar
241
Overhage, Carl F. P.
18, 21, 331
overhead photography
82, 87, 172, 237-238
overhead reconnaissance missions
188
Overstreet, Carl K.
100
OXCART
61, 73, 157, 191, 236, 238, 252-253,
259, 274, 277-313, 320-322, 327-333,
336, 339
oxygenation
62
## P
P-38 fighter
10,329
P-40 fighter
328
P-51 Mustang
214
P-80 fighter
10,45
P-80 Shooting Star
45
P2V7
222
P3A
222
Pacific Ocean
247
Padang, West Sumatra
212