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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 GLM-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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## 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 above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.