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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…
mission 2023

108

mission 2029

124

mission 3086

200

mission 3088

200

mission 3089

201

mission 3091

205

mission 3093

205

mission 3095

205

mission 3098

206

mission 3100

206

mission 4016

124

mission 4018

124

mission 4019

126

mission 4030

133

mission 4154

175

mission 4155

168

mission 6011

144

mission length

199

mission plotting

60

mission programmers

78

missions

59, 75, 82, 87, 106, 114

129, 154, 164, 167, 179

210, 224, 237, 245, 254

322, 336

Nationalist Chinese cre

222

oleostrut

47, 69

operational altitude

77

outrigger wheels

79

overflights

6, 32, 62, 74, 76-77, 84-86, 88-89,

94-98, 100-101, 104-106, 108-111,

114, 116, 122-128, 135, 138-140,

142-143, 146, 148, 152, 154-157,

159, 161-165, 167-168, 170, 172,

180-181, 195-198, 200-201, 205-206,

208, 210-211, 219, 222-226, 228-237,

239-240, 242-244, 249, 253, 257, 259,

294, 297-301, 310, 315-317, 318-320,

322

paint penalty

149

payload

262, 8, 11, 50, 54, 340, 87, 145, 152

peripheral missions

189, 206, 244, 246

phaseout

257, 310

pilot fatigue

199

pilot hypoxia

80

pilot life-support system

64

pilot selection

60, 283

pilot-survival gear

62

pilot training program

75

pilot urination

64

pilots

42, 299, 47, 56, 59-60,62-66, 68-69,

71-77, 79-80, 94, 109, 113-114, 116,

125, 127, 132-135, 140, 148-149, 153-

156, 164, 175-176, 179, 181-183, 186-187

198-199, 207-212, 214, 221, 223-226,

229-230, 233-236, 238-240, 243, 246-248,

250-253, 256, 283, 319, 321, 332, 340

pilots dessicated

65

pitch-control servo device

296

pogos

47, 79, 108

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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.