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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

376

## Pakistan

Paksane, Laos 231

Palmdale, California 311

panoramic-type framing camera 53

Paradise Ranch 57,66

PARAMOUNT Committee 114,116,120

Parangosky, John 274,288,296,309,331

"parasite" aircraft 263

Paris Summit 172,181-182

Pasadena, California 13,50,252

Pathet Lao 221

PB-4Y aircraft

222

Pearl Harbor 322

Pearson, Drew 299

Peenemunde rocket project 2

Peiping, China 228-229

Pellegrini, Joseph J. 6

Pennsylvania State Police 222

Pentagon 5,7,9,11,13-14,39,78-79,238

People's Liberation Army (PLA) 215

People's Republic of China (PRC)

85,135,201,215,222,225-226,

228-247,253,282,301,319,339,341

(See also China)

radars

215

troop movements

215

nuclear plants

238

nuclear weapons establishment 226 Shuangchengzi missile-test range 235

periscope 56,76

Perkin, Richard S.

18, 31, 50-52, 281-282, 311, 332-333

Perkin-Elmer (P-E) Company 18,31,50,281

Perkin-Elmer tracking camera 52

Perkins, Courtland D. 260

Personnel (USAF), Deputy Chief of Staff for 74

Peshawar, Pakistan 135,163-164,167-168,172,174-176

Photo-Intelligence Division (PID) 82,100,135

photographic chemicals 121

Photographic Evaluation of Information on Cuba 200

photographic resolution 281

photointerpreters

83,108,111,114-116,120-121,135

138,153,172,191,198,209,211

216,221,236,303,307

photomapping 1,232

photoreconnaissance

1, 4-5, 7, 22

photosatellite 270,313,327,330,157

PID's Special Projects Branch 115

"pioneer" photography 87

pitot-static tube 295

Pittsburgh-Corning Glass Company 55

Plans, Deputy Director for 157,191-192,327,333

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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.