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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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“US Navy”15 pages

  • p. 11 …At great risk, US Air Force and Navy aircraft had been conducting peripheral reconnaissance and shallow…
  • p. 16 …As a result, in the late 1940s, the US Air Force and Navy began trying to…
  • p. 17 …Two months later, on 7 October 1952, Soviet fighter aircraft stalked and shot down a US…
  • p. 72 On 29 April 1955, Richard Bissell signed an agreement with the Air Force and the Navy…
  • p. 94 …The committee issued its list of targets for the use of the entire intelligence community using…
  • p. 147 …The Agency then turned to the Navy, which granted permission for Detachment C to use the…
  • p. 180 …James Doolittle urged President Eisenhower to use overflights of the Soviet Union to the maximum degree…
  • p. 223 …returned by Air Force and Navy reconnaissance aircraft. President Kennedy used NPIC photographs to illustrate his…
  • p. 273 …Charyk, and his Navy counterpart, Garrison Norton. Designers from several aircraft manufacturers also attended some of…
  • p. 283 …This engine had originally been developed for the Navy's large, jet-powered flying boat, the…
  • p. 297 …The need for additional buildings on the base was met by the Navy. Three surplus Navy…
  • p. 298 …After hearing Bissell and Holcomb's suggestion that the J58 might be used in future Navy…
  • p. 348 …Following modifications to make System-VII suitable for use by the Navy, the designation was changed…
  • p. 353 …AQUILINE prototype at Randsburg Wash on the US Navy's Naval Ordnance Test Station at China…
  • p. 401 …328 US Marine Corps Reserve 14 US Military Academy at West Point 329 US Navy Chief…
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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.