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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 …This search soon led him to a British twin-engine medium bomber—the Canberra—built by…
  • p. 19 Secret NOFORN Chapter 1 6 RAF Canberra Mark-PR3 division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
  • p. 22 …high-altitude performance of the B-57 Canberra. By January 1954 all three firms had submitted…
  • p. 36 …The RAF equipped the new Canberra PR7 with RollsRoyce Avon-109 engines and gave it long…
  • p. 37 …altitude flight being made to the US Canberra, the B-57. $ ^{41} $ ## The Intelligence Systems Panel…
  • p. 80 …production was needed to power specially configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first…
  • p. 122 …a reconnaissance version of the twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin…
  • p. 175 …2 and an Air Force RB-57D Canberra. The two aircraft cruised along the Soviet border…
  • p. 372 …310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332, 333 Canberra 5, 9, 23-24, 67, 109, 117, 162…
  • p. 401 …General 61 oxygen mask 62 RB-57D Canberra 162 Third Air Force 89 US deterrent force…
television reconnaissance package

343

Tennessee

78, 238

test ban

147

Tet offensive

243

Texas Instruments Corporation

238, 282

Third World

211

three-camera trimetrogon unit

52

three-dimensional movies

29

30001 camera

333

303 Committee

243, 257, 301-302, 304, 307

Thule, Greenland

172

Tibet

157, 216, 219, 232

Time

99

TIME STEP

172, 174

Titan ICBM

160

titanium alloy

271

Titanium Metals Corporation

280

TOKEN

87

Tomsk, Soviet Union

138

TOPPER

219

TOUCHDOWN

163

tracker camera

385

Index

## Secret NOFORN

tracking

3, 7, 52-53, 87, 97, 106, 128-129,

144, 170, 176, 178, 234, 259, 263,

267-268, 303, 307, 343

tracking radars

7, 267

Trans-Siberian Railroad

144

transport aircraft

25, 45, 66

traveling-wave tube (TWT)

236

trimetrogon K-17 mapping-camera system

49

Tripartite Declaration, 1950

117

tropopause

152

Truman administration

17

TRW Corporation

335

Tuamotu Archipelago

249

"Tuesday lunch"

305

Tukey, John W.

29

turbojet engine

8, 11, 262, 268, 343

Tuslog Detachment 10-10

113

Twining, Nathan

60-61, 86, 88, 96, 99, 101, 127,

134, 139, 161, 165

Type-I camera

281, 304, 310

Type-II camera

281

Type-IV camera

282

Typhoon Winnie

216

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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.