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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. 12 later, at press conferences in February and July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson revealed the existence…
  • p. 98 …The Soviet Union sent strongly worded protest notes to the United States and the nations from…
  • p. 102 …not only press releases and the public line to be taken, but also the suspension of…
  • p. 112 …at a press conference that the Soviet Union might be ahead of the United States in…
  • p. 167 Secret NOFORN become involved in the U-2 project in September 1956, when the United States…
  • p. 174 …McElroy stressed that the gap would be temporary and that at its end the United States…
  • p. 183 …On the 9 April overflight, the U-2's ELINT-collection unit (System VI) indicated Soviet…
  • p. 195 …in the press about the presence of "spyplanes" on Japanese territory, asked the United States to…
  • p. 315 …To preserve the secrecy of the OXCART program, the Air Force informed the press that an…
  • p. 328 …at times when the press and Congress alleged that the United States was falling behind the…
  • p. 362 …Smithsonian Institute Press, 1985. Khrushchev, Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co…
  • p. 401 …United Kingdom (See Great Britain) United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154 United Nations 20 United Press International…
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.