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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.

  • p. 18 …This search soon led him to a British twin-engine medium bomber—the Canberra—built by…
  • p. 19 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 6 RAF Canberra Mark-PR3 division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
  • p. 22 …high-altitude performance of the B-57 Canberra. By January 1954 all three firms had submitted…
  • p. 36 …The RAF equipped the new Canberra PR7 with RollsRoyce Avon-109 engines and gave it long…
  • p. 37 …altitude flight being made to the US Canberra, the B-57. $ ^{41} $ ## The Intelligence Systems Panel…
  • p. 80 …production was needed to power specially configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first…
  • p. 122 …a reconnaissance version of the twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin…
  • p. 175 …2 and an Air Force RB-57D Canberra. The two aircraft cruised along the Soviet border…
  • p. 372 …310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332, 333 Canberra 5, 9, 23-24, 67, 109, 117, 162…
  • p. 401 …General 61 oxygen mask 62 RB-57D Canberra 162 Third Air Force 89 US deterrent force…
## Secret NOFORN

Russell, Richard B. 88

## S

S-band radar

87

sailplane

10-11, 24-26, 47

Sakhalin Island

201

Saltonstall, Leverett

88

SAM site

177, 205, 306

San Cristobal, Cuba

206-207, 209

San Diego, California

247, 343

Santa Barbara Channel

254

Santa Clara Airfield, Cuba

201

Saratov Engels Airfield, Soviet Union

164

Saryshagan, Soviet Union

139, 168, 232, 336

satellite imagery

298, 255

satellite navigation systems

341

satellite photography

87, 195-197, 226, 233, 237, 241

satellites

22, 100, 104, 159, 162, 211, 299,

303, 312, 320, 322, 328

Saville, Gordon P.

17-18

Schalk, Louis

288-289

Schlesinger, James R.

257, 333

Schoech, William A. 285

Schriever, Bernard A.

7, 11

Schultze, Charles L.

309

Science and Technology, Directorate of

193, 287, 328

Science and Technology, Special Assistant

to the President for

37

Scientific Advisory Board

17, 23

Scientific Advisory Committee

17, 89, 332

Scientific Engineering Institute (SEI)

110-111, 129, 260, 267, 274, 331-332

Scientific Intelligence (OSI), Office of

14, 21, 39, 81, 97, 331, 333

SCOPE COTTON

310

SCOPE CRANE

242

SCOPE LOGIC

303

SCOPE SAINT

255

SCOPE SAINT-I

255

SCOPE SAINT-II

255

SCOPE SHIELD

246-247

Scott, Roderick M.

51, 53, 281, 333

Scoville, Herbert

207, 287, 289, 333

SCR-270 radar

7

Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Airport, Pennsylvania

222

Sea of Japan

3

Seaberg, John

8-9, 12, 35-36, 333

SEAFOAM

211

sealant

286, 288

secrecy agreements

295

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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.