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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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“United Press”12 pages

  • 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

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.