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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. 7 …320 Cooperation With the Air Force... 321 Impact of the Overhead Reconnaissance Program on the CIA…
  • p. 91 …Early in the program Bissell and Ritland had foreseen such an emergency and, with the cooperation…
  • p. 95 …of their mission kept the level of cooperation high. The group always attempted to reach a…
  • p. 143 …deception project since its early days, he cooperated reluctantly because he disliked adding attachments that made…
  • p. 167 …By 1957 cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States had expanded to include frequent…
  • p. 169 …was a logical extension of the close cooperation that already existed between the two countries on…
  • p. 195 …2 affair and hoping to obtain international cooperation for its space program, decided to end its…
  • p. 196 …as possible while giving the appearance of cooperating with his captors. To extract the maximum propaganda…
  • p. 287 …by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier (EG&G) in cooperation with the Scientific Engineering Institute at a small…
  • p. 302 …Halaby cooperated fully with the Agency and personally briefed all FAA regional chiefs on how to…
  • p. 334 …The cooperation between the Agency and the Air Force that began with the U-2 and…
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.