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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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  • 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…
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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.