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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…
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.