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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.
“Canberra”10 pages
Secret NOFORN Index 378 Pyroceram 268,271 ## Q Quarles, Donald 81, 127, 144-145, 161-162, 263, 267 Quarters Eye 42 quartz glass window 282 Que Building 83, 111 Quemoy 215, 229 QUICK KICK 216 quick-reaction capability 301, 313 ## R Raborn, William F., Jr. 240, 301, 332 radar 3, 7, 15, 19, 23, , 82, 87, 94, 97, 101, 104-106, 110-111, 123, 128-130, 132-134, 139, 142, 144, 148, 168, 175-176, 178, 197, 211, 215, 230, 234-237, 239, 241-243, 247, 257, 259-260, 263, 267-271, 273-274, 277, 289, 294, 300, 303-307, 310-311, 317, 331-332, 335-336, 339, 341-342 radar camouflage 128 radar cross section 15, 260, 263, 267-270, 271, 273-274, 277, 300, 332, 339, 341-343, 110 radar deception 130 radar defense systems 343 radar image 259, 332 radar pulses 87, 110, 130, 175, 268, 335 radar signature 341-342 radar technology 7 radar-absorbing 111, 260 radar-deflecting 260 radar-homing unit 342 Radford, Arthur W. 122-124, 126 Radhakrishnan, Savepalli 232 Radiation Laboratories 330 RADINT 189 radio 2, 7, 19, 75, 87, 175-176, 186, 268, 289, 332 RAINBOW 111, 129-130, 259 Ramenskoye, Soviet Union 20, 105 Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico 211 ramjet-powered 262-263, 268, 291 Ramo-Wooldridge firm 335 RAND Corporation 20, 26, 85 Randolph AFB, Texas 73 Randsburg Wash 340 Ray, Walter 302 "ray-tracing" programs 52, 55 RB-29 aircraft 3-4 RB-47 aircraft 3, 22, 182, 186 RB-52 aircraft 22 RB-57 aircraft 26, 35, 40, 134, 223 RB-57D aircraft 6, 126, 162
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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.