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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. 4 …17 The BEACON HILL Report... 17 Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack... 19…
  • p. 13 Helen Hill Kleyla and Robert D. O'Hern. This 16-volume Top Secret Codeword study of…
  • p. 14 …view of the "other side of the hill." With the advent of dry film, it became…
  • p. 30 …this new advisory body. $ ^{29} $ ## The BEACON HILL Report In 1951 the Air Force sought even…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 32 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 document on 15 June 1952, the BEACON HILL Report advocated radical approaches…
  • p. 34 …Created in July 1953, the Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP) included several experts from the BEACON HILL…
  • p. 37 …the reconnaissance needs expressed in the BEACON HILL Report. Theoretically, he explained to the panel, any…
  • p. 44 …members had been discussing since the BEACON HILL and Intelligence Systems Panel meetings. James Baker was…
  • p. 45 …Having participated in the BEACON HILL Study and the Intelligence Systems Panel, several Project Three members…
  • p. 344 …He headed the Beacon Hill Panel in 1952 and later became director of Lincoln Laboratories. ## PARANGOSKY…
  • p. 345 …of several advisory panels, including the BEACON HILL project. He helped Baker decide what cameras to…
  • p. 364 …BEACON HILL Report: Problems of Air Force Intelligence and Reconnaissance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 June…
  • p. 371 …137 Beacon Hill 17-19,21,24,31-32,331-332 BEACON HILL Report 17,19…
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Index

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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.