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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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“Cooper”11 pages

  • p. 7 …320 Cooperation With the Air Force... 321 Impact of the Overhead Reconnaissance Program on the CIA…
  • p. 91 …Early in the program Bissell and Ritland had foreseen such an emergency and, with the cooperation…
  • p. 95 …of their mission kept the level of cooperation high. The group always attempted to reach a…
  • p. 143 …deception project since its early days, he cooperated reluctantly because he disliked adding attachments that made…
  • p. 167 …By 1957 cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States had expanded to include frequent…
  • p. 169 …was a logical extension of the close cooperation that already existed between the two countries on…
  • p. 195 …2 affair and hoping to obtain international cooperation for its space program, decided to end its…
  • p. 196 …as possible while giving the appearance of cooperating with his captors. To extract the maximum propaganda…
  • p. 287 …by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier (EG&G) in cooperation with the Scientific Engineering Institute at a small…
  • p. 302 …Halaby cooperated fully with the Agency and personally briefed all FAA regional chiefs on how to…
  • p. 334 …The cooperation between the Agency and the Air Force that began with the U-2 and…
RB-58 aircraft

22

Reber, James

81, 114-115, 154, 332

reconnaissance

1-9, 12-19, 21-25, 27, 30-37,

39, 41, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55, 59,

61-62, 66, 80, 84, 94, 96, 98, 109,

113, 115-116, 119, 122, 126-127,

133, 153-154, 161-162, 188-193,

196-197, 201, 205-206, 208, 210-212,

216, 222-223, 226, 228, 230-233, 240,

249, 253-254, 260, 262-263, 267-268,

270, 287, 291-292, 295, 297-299, 301,

303-304, 308-309, 311-313, 319-322,

327-331, 333, 339, 341-344

reconnaissance aircraft competition

reconnaissance aircraft competition 9

reconnaissance drones 301

reconnaissance satellite project 161

"reconnaissance strike"

295

Reconnaissance Systems Branch 4

records, altitude 302

records, speed 302

RED DOT

254

reflecting cube 281

reflective system 55

refueling

114, 198-200, 231, 237, 241,

302, 306, 308

refugees 2

Republic RF-84F Thunderflash 22

Research, Directorate of 192,287

Research and Development, Director of 66

Research and Reports (ORR), Office of 21,81,237

Returnee Exploitation Group (REG) 2

Revolutionary Council 212

Index

Ridenour, Louis N.

18

Ridenour Associates, Inc. 18

Ritland, Osmond 56,61,70,78

ROBIN

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ROBIN HOOD

211

Robinson, Robert 164

rocket planes 60

rocket-powered aircraft 312

Rodgers, Franklin A.

129, 267-268, 274, 332

Rodgers' Effect 267

Rolls-Royce Avon-109 engines 5,23

Romania

101

Root, L. Eugene 9,24

Rose, Wilburn S.

40, 79-80

Ruseckas, Joseph 63

Rusk, Dean 183,201,209,236,293,304,307

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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.