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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.

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  • 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…
Secret NOFORN

Index

384

System-II

335

System-III

335-336

System-IV

335

System-V

126, 215, 335

System-VI

335, 175

System-VII

335-336

System-VIII

335

System-IX

335

System-IXB device

175

System-X

256, 336

System-XII units

234

System-XIII

234, 236-237, 239

System-XVI

336

System-XVII

336

System-XX

336

System-XXI

336

System-XXII

336

System-XXIV

256

## T

Taber, John 88

tactical intelligence 304

tactical reconnaissance

9, 25, 115, 153

TAGBOARD

291

Tahiti

250

tailless subsonic aircraft

263

Taiwan

215-216, 222, 224-225, 229,

233, 236-237, 239, 241-243,

246, 251

Taiwan Strait

229

Ta Khli, AFB, Thailand

230

Talbott, Harold E.

13-14, 36

TALL KING

294

Tallinn, Estonia

303

Tashkent, Soviet Union

176

TASS

137

Tatar Strait

144

Taylor, Maxwell

188

TCP

27

Technical Services Division (TSD)

66, 125

Technicolor

331

Technological Capabilities Panel

26-27, 29-30, 35, 62, 80, 327-

329, 332

Technology, Deputy for

192

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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.