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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. 19 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 6 RAF Canberra Mark-PR3 division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
  • p. 36 …In 1952 the Royal Air Force (RAF) began Project ROBIN, which was designed to modify the…
  • p. 106 …The U-2s were to use Lakenheath AFB, an RAF base also used by the USAF…
  • p. 107 …inadvertently penetrated the British radar network, causing RAF fighters to scramble. Afterward the Air Ministry made…
  • p. 122 …twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin Yar in 1953. The US…
  • p. 156 …Range for the first time since the RAF's overflight in 1953, obtaining photographs of a…
  • p. 166 …In November 1958, four RAF officers arrived at Detachment B at Adana, thus beginning the United…
  • p. 167 …On 7 February 1958, Bissell instructed the to ask Air Vice Marshal MacDonald if the RAF…
  • p. 168 …MacDonald agreed to Bissell's proposal and began recruiting RAF pilots to fly the U-2…
  • p. 169 …Most flights by the RAF pilots in Detachment B, however, took place in the Middle East…
  • p. 177 …For almost a year, the RAF pilots of Detachment B had been ready to fly over…
  • p. 194 …A four-man unit of RAF U-2 pilots was stationed at Detachment G, Edwards AFB…
  • p. 200 …approval authority for missions conducted by the RAF pilots in Detachment B. The loss of Powers…
  • p. 316 …Project IDEALIST U-2 flying from an RAF facility in Great Britain. The OXCART would fly…
  • p. 332 …1960, the need for British participation lessened. RAF pilots henceforth flew only training or ferry missions…
  • p. 339 …Division PSAC President's Science Advisory Committee RAF Royal Air Force RFP Request for proposal SAB…
  • p. 351 …May 1960 4154 Powers Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk; downed by SAM $ ^{a} $ RAF pilot
  • p. 402 …Louis 29 Watertown Strip 57 Watton RAF Base. England 156 "weather plane" cover story 179 weather…
RB-58 aircraft

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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.