“Mission Control”28 pages
- p. 9 …The struggle between the CIA and the US Air Force to control the U-2 and…
- p. 72 …2 missions. Access to the photographs taken by the U-2 would be strictly controlled, which…
- p. 73 …This pact gave the Air Force responsibility for pilot selection and training, weather information, mission plotting…
- p. 81 …Before the start of a mission, the ground crew set the counters to indicate the total…
- p. 96 …All of the products from this project would be placed in the new control system. By…
- p. 100 …This was an S-band radar used by Soviet forces for early warning and ground-controlled…
- p. 113 …The President nevertheless maintained tight control over the program and authorized only 10 days of overflights…
- p. 128 …personnel controlling overseas photo processing and interpretation centers, which were normally under Air Force control. Further…
- p. 140 …Although the President would not allow U-2s to fly their primary mission of reconnaissance of…
- p. 142 …of the first series of U-2 missions. The CIA proprietary firm Scientific Engineering Institute was…
- p. 147 …To take advantage of these weaknesses, Detachment C staged three missions from Alaska into the Soviet…
- p. 156 …After these missions, penetration overflights became a rarity. There would be only six more during the…
- p. 167 …U-2 missions. To handle U-2 material, the British created a new control system, which…
- p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
- p. 169 …of authority for the joint program: "British missions are carried out on your authority and are…
- p. 170 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 3
May 1959, and used to fly weather missions on 7 and 8…
- p. 180 …As in December, the pilot was British, and the mission had been ordered by Prime Minister…
- p. 188 …some Soviet airborne-missile fire-control systems.
Operation GRAND SLAM, mission 4154 and the 24th deep…
- p. 191 …This revised cover story, along with a mission flight plan consistent with it, was sent to…
- p. 193 …the impression that he was not in control of his administration. On Wednesday, 11 May, the…
- p. 196 …with Abel's "wife" (probably his Soviet control) in East Germany. In November 1961, Acting DCI…
- p. 204 …in the DDP in order to maintain control of his overhead reconnaissance projects (the U-2…
- p. 220 …Strongly favoring Air Force control of the U-2 missions over Cuba, the DOD representatives called…
- p. 237 …In reality, however, the United States would maintain strict control over the missions to be flown…
- p. 335 …The flood of information that the U-2 missions gathered led to a major expansion of…
- p. 340 …In 1959 Bissell became Deputy Director for Plans but kept the reconnaissance projects under his control…
- p. 348 …System-I used S- and X-band ELINT receivers to collect ground-controlled intercept and air…
- p. 400 mission 2023
108
mission 2029
124
mission 3086
200
mission 3088
200
mission 3089
201
mission…
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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