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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…
RB-58 aircraft

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Reber, James

81, 114-115, 154, 332

reconnaissance

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

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

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

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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.

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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.