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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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“Headquarters”25 pages

  • p. 22 …Air Force headquarters soon approved Martin's proposal to modify the B-57 and was very…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 55 Secret NOFORN Chapter 2 42 The Matomic Building total of 357 personnel divided among project headquarters…
  • p. 56 …until it moved into the new CIA Headquarters building at Langley in March 1962. The final…
  • p. 73 …On 3 August 1955, Dulles and Twining met at SAC headquarters in Omaha to sign the…
  • p. 85 …Frequent flights were also necessary to bring in supplies and visitors from contractors and headquarters. Therefore…
  • p. 102 …U-2 project officer, the Air Force Headquarters project officer, and NACA's top official, Dr…
  • p. 107 …did not have to report to higher headquarters. WRSP-1, known within the Agency as Detachment…
  • p. 117 …Late on the evening of 3 July, Bissell went to project headquarters in the Matomic Building…
  • p. 127 …The PARAMOUNT Committee worked inside PID headquarters in the Steuart Building. Composed of members from CIA…
  • p. 128 …Lundahl and Reber flew from the United Kingdom to US Air Force Europe headquarters in Wiesbaden…
  • p. 138 …later and promptly reported the conversation to headquarters. When details of Vito's close call reached…
  • p. 153 …of Detachment A achieved excellent results, project headquarters had already decided that Western Europe was not…
  • p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
  • p. 191 …commander at Adana, to Air Force Europe headquarters, to replace the cover story that had been…
  • p. 194 …Because the new government had not been briefed on the U-2, Project Headquarters refused to…
  • p. 205 …its own building to the new CIA Headquarters at Langley. Soon afterward, Col. Stanley W. Beerli…
  • p. 233 …On 6 June 1960, project headquarters decided on a phased-out withdrawal of Detachment C between…
  • p. 235 …Airport, the pilot reported the incident to Headquarters. The Office of Security immediately contacted the Pennsylvania…
  • p. 312 …Project headquarters therefore began preparing contingency plans (Project SKYLARK) for the possible employment of OXCART over…
  • p. 319 …To ensure secure communications between Headquarters and Kadena. A typical mission over North Vietnam required refueling…
  • p. 323 …Project headquarters informed Deputy Defense Secretary Vance on 10 January 1967 that the A-12s would…
  • p. 324 …President Johnson confirmed this decision on 21 May. $ ^{69} $ Project headquarters selected 8 June 1968 as…
  • p. 334 …Air Force personnel served at all levels of the reconnaissance program, from project headquarters to the…
  • p. 365 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (Top Secret Codeword). Interview with…
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

23

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.