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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. 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…
## 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.