Documents / FOIA release

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.

Open the PDF at page 400 Original source ↗

“United Press”12 pages

  • 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…
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

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

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.