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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. 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…
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.