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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. 12 later, at press conferences in February and July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson revealed the existence…
  • p. 98 …The Soviet Union sent strongly worded protest notes to the United States and the nations from…
  • p. 102 …not only press releases and the public line to be taken, but also the suspension of…
  • p. 112 …at a press conference that the Soviet Union might be ahead of the United States in…
  • p. 167 Secret NOFORN become involved in the U-2 project in September 1956, when the United States…
  • p. 174 …McElroy stressed that the gap would be temporary and that at its end the United States…
  • p. 183 …On the 9 April overflight, the U-2's ELINT-collection unit (System VI) indicated Soviet…
  • p. 195 …in the press about the presence of "spyplanes" on Japanese territory, asked the United States to…
  • p. 315 …To preserve the secrecy of the OXCART program, the Air Force informed the press that an…
  • p. 328 …at times when the press and Congress alleged that the United States was falling behind the…
  • p. 362 …Smithsonian Institute Press, 1985. Khrushchev, Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co…
  • p. 401 …United Kingdom (See Great Britain) United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154 United Nations 20 United Press International…
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.