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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 GLM-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. 307 …Soviet development of the TALL KING radar system had eliminated his hope that OXCART would eventually…
  • p. 397 …13-14, 36 TALL KING 294 Tallinn, Estonia 303 Tashkent, Soviet Union 176 TASS 137 Tatar…

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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 above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.