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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.

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“Headquarters”25 pages

  • p. 22 …Air Force headquarters soon approved Martin's proposal to modify the B-57 and was very…
  • p. 31 …Their headquarters was located over a secretarial school on Beacon Hill, which soon became the codename…
  • p. 55 Secret NOFORN Chapter 2 42 The Matomic Building total of 357 personnel divided among project headquarters…
  • p. 56 …until it moved into the new CIA Headquarters building at Langley in March 1962. The final…
  • p. 73 …On 3 August 1955, Dulles and Twining met at SAC headquarters in Omaha to sign the…
  • p. 85 …Frequent flights were also necessary to bring in supplies and visitors from contractors and headquarters. Therefore…
  • p. 102 …U-2 project officer, the Air Force Headquarters project officer, and NACA's top official, Dr…
  • p. 107 …did not have to report to higher headquarters. WRSP-1, known within the Agency as Detachment…
  • p. 117 …Late on the evening of 3 July, Bissell went to project headquarters in the Matomic Building…
  • p. 127 …The PARAMOUNT Committee worked inside PID headquarters in the Steuart Building. Composed of members from CIA…
  • p. 128 …Lundahl and Reber flew from the United Kingdom to US Air Force Europe headquarters in Wiesbaden…
  • p. 138 …later and promptly reported the conversation to headquarters. When details of Vito's close call reached…
  • p. 153 …of Detachment A achieved excellent results, project headquarters had already decided that Western Europe was not…
  • p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
  • p. 191 …commander at Adana, to Air Force Europe headquarters, to replace the cover story that had been…
  • p. 194 …Because the new government had not been briefed on the U-2, Project Headquarters refused to…
  • p. 205 …its own building to the new CIA Headquarters at Langley. Soon afterward, Col. Stanley W. Beerli…
  • p. 233 …On 6 June 1960, project headquarters decided on a phased-out withdrawal of Detachment C between…
  • p. 235 …Airport, the pilot reported the incident to Headquarters. The Office of Security immediately contacted the Pennsylvania…
  • p. 312 …Project headquarters therefore began preparing contingency plans (Project SKYLARK) for the possible employment of OXCART over…
  • p. 319 …To ensure secure communications between Headquarters and Kadena. A typical mission over North Vietnam required refueling…
  • p. 323 …Project headquarters informed Deputy Defense Secretary Vance on 10 January 1967 that the A-12s would…
  • p. 324 …President Johnson confirmed this decision on 21 May. $ ^{69} $ Project headquarters selected 8 June 1968 as…
  • p. 334 …Air Force personnel served at all levels of the reconnaissance program, from project headquarters to the…
  • p. 365 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (Top Secret Codeword). Interview with…
## Secret NOFORN

Index

386

Tyuratam, Soviet Union 135,137-138,160,163-165,167-168, 171-172,176

## U

66

U-2

accomplishments

316

assembly

45, 47, 66, 75, 164, 280, 284, 291

bailout experiments

64

bases

93

bicycle-type landing gear

47

blue-black color

149

brakes

69

canopy

80, 149, 177

cockpit

11, 63-64, 79, 125, 283, 292, 296

cost

34, 124, 149, 250-252, 263, 269, 273,

280, 285-286, 309, 322, 341-342

cover story

60, 85, 89-90, 94, 99, 132, 156, 178-180,

182, 207-208, 216, 224, 295

coverage

316

deadstick landing

79

deployment

2, 74, 76, 78, 88-89, 93-94, 134, 161,

165, 167, 247, 250, 255-257, 297,

301-302, 304, 307, 313, 317, 332

design

47

destruction device

177

detachable pogos

47

ejection seat

64, 177, 302

emergency landing

78, 188, 222, 313

film exploitation

115

flameout

71, 78-79, 131, 198, 229

flight plans

82, 177

flights approval process

187-188, 226, 301

foreign pilots

73-74, 321

fuel

5, 23, 47, 61-62, 68, 76, 133, 161, 175, 199, 218-219, 231, 235, 241, 247-248, 271, 274, 277-278, 283-284, 286, 288, 302, 313, 340

fuel consumption

68, 219

fuel gauge

68, 219, 302

fuselage

10, 24, 47, 130, 248, 251, 270, 277, 286

inspection procedures

297

landing gear

10-12, 15, 47-48, 69, 89, 248

low-speed stall

76

maiden flight

66, 288

mission 1104

114

mission 1105

114

mission 1314

117

mission 2003

100

mission 2009

101

mission 2010

101

mission 2013

104-105

mission 2014

105

mission 2020

106

mission 2021

106

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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.