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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 …Leghorn persuaded his superiors to submit his suggestion to the Pentagon for funding. He had not…
  • p. 20 …Meanwhile Leghorn, frustrated by the rejection of his original concept, had transferred to the Pentagon in…
  • p. 22 …become the assistant director of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program, was in the Pentagon on business…
  • p. 24 …for the construction and maintenance of 30 aircraft to a group of senior Pentagon officials that…
  • p. 26 …He had been present at Kelly Johnson's presentation on the CL-282 at the Pentagon…
  • p. 27 …with Strong in the Pentagon on 12 May 1954, six days before the Wright Air Development…
  • p. 52 …Late on the morning of 2 December 1954, Dulles told Bissell to go to the Pentagon…
  • p. 91 …He then briefed a high-level Pentagon panel that included the Secretary of the Air Force…
  • p. 92 …After a half hour passed, the base commander called the Pentagon to ask where the crippled…
  • p. 363 …CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II. New York: William Morrow, 1986. . The Soviet…
## 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.