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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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  • 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…
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Index

388

prebreathing

64, 125

projects

39-40, 42-44, 56, 59, 61-62, 71, 73,

74, 81-82, 88-89, 97, 153-155, 157,

186, 257, 316, 327-331

rocking mount

51, 53

stall envelope

71

stalls

80

tail section

47, 76

taxi trials

68-69

training

302

vertical stabilizers

277, 343

vulnerability study

97, 207

U-2B

95

U-2Cs

152, 196, 208, 210, 217

U-2F

198

U-2G

248, 250, 252, 255

U-2R

251-253, 257, 282, 336

U-3

66

Ukraine

Ukraine 106

Under Secretary of State 188,225

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) 72

United Arab Republic 153

United Kingdom (See Great Britain)

United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154

United Nations 20

United Press International (UPI) 232

United States 2-4,7-8,19-21,26-27,73,77-78. 85,89-90,96,98-100,108-110,112.

117,121,124,140,142,147-148,153-156, 159,161,163-164,179,181-183,187,201, 205,215,221-222,224-226,229-232,245- 247,254,256,285,294,297,299,301-302, 306,315,60,316,318-319,332 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft 291,304

UPWIND 303

Urals 22,163

uranium gaseous-diffusion plant 239

uranium-processing facility 138

US Air Attache in Moscow 177

US Air Force, Secretary of the 11,32,78,81,327-329

US Air Force

Air Weather Service

94

Chief of Air Staff

78

EC-130, 146

Inspector General

61

oxygen mask

62

RB-57D Canberra

162

Third Air Force

89

US deterrent force 317

US Geological Survey 254

US House of Representatives

Appropriations Committee 88

US Marine Corps 40,153,247,328

US Marine Corps Reserve 14

US Military Academy at West Point 329

US Navy Chief of Naval Materiel 285

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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.