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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. 4 …17 The BEACON HILL Report... 17 Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack... 19…
  • p. 13 Helen Hill Kleyla and Robert D. O'Hern. This 16-volume Top Secret Codeword study of…
  • p. 14 …view of the "other side of the hill." With the advent of dry film, it became…
  • p. 30 …this new advisory body. $ ^{29} $ ## The BEACON HILL Report In 1951 the Air Force sought even…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 32 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 document on 15 June 1952, the BEACON HILL Report advocated radical approaches…
  • p. 34 …Created in July 1953, the Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP) included several experts from the BEACON HILL…
  • p. 37 …the reconnaissance needs expressed in the BEACON HILL Report. Theoretically, he explained to the panel, any…
  • p. 44 …members had been discussing since the BEACON HILL and Intelligence Systems Panel meetings. James Baker was…
  • p. 45 …Having participated in the BEACON HILL Study and the Intelligence Systems Panel, several Project Three members…
  • p. 344 …He headed the Beacon Hill Panel in 1952 and later became director of Lincoln Laboratories. ## PARANGOSKY…
  • p. 345 …of several advisory panels, including the BEACON HILL project. He helped Baker decide what cameras to…
  • p. 364 …BEACON HILL Report: Problems of Air Force Intelligence and Reconnaissance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 June…
  • p. 371 …137 Beacon Hill 17-19,21,24,31-32,331-332 BEACON HILL Report 17,19…
SR-71

295,302,308-311,321

SS-4 (SHYSTER) MRBM

206

SS-6 ICBM

160 165 171 172

stainless steel 277,280

Stassen, Harold 330

State Department

81, 95, 101, 146, 154, 163, 179, 186,

196-197, 212, 224-225, 229, 243, 249

"stealth" research

313

stereo camera 281,252

stereoscopic lenses 250

Steuart Building 83,111,114

STEVER 260,333

Stockman, Hervey 65.104-105

STPOLLY

222, 224, 240

Strategic Air Command (SAC)

11, 14, 17, 20, 26, 42, 60, 74-76, 78,

89, 93, 95, 198, 201, 207-210, 299, 230

meteorologists

42

strategic bombing

"strategic hamlet"

230

strategic bombing 49

strategic intelligence

82,115,152,302,304,313,315

319,322

strategic reconnaissance 9,122,230,295,297,299,313, 320,322,329

Strauss, Lewis 56

Strong, Philip G.

14-17, 21-22, 24-25, 29-30, 333

subsonic 8,14,260,263

Index

Suez Canal

112-114, 117, 120, 256

Suez Canal, Israeli-British-French attack on

116

Suez Canal Company

112-113

Suez Crisis

152

suicide pill

65

Sukarno, Achmed 212, 215

Sulawesi (Celebes)

212

Sullivan, Dennis 307

Sumatra 212

SUN SPOT 171

Super Snooper 132

supersonic designs 260

supersonic interceptor 285

supersonic technology 292-293

Support, Directorate of 40,83

surface-to-air missile (SA-2) sites 201

surface-to-air missiles 257,299,301,303,339

surface-to-surface missiles 205-206,209,304,306

Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union 172,176-179,185

Symington, Stuart 99,161 synthetic lubricants

synthetic lubricants 279

Syria 114,120,133,153

Syrian radars 343

System-I

335

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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.