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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.

  • p. 143 …Air Force contract to evaluate radars, EG&G operated a small testing facility at Indian Springs…
  • p. 244 …Then in August 1964, following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Air Force assumed responsibility for…
  • p. 381 …232 Indian Springs, Nevada 274, 130, 132 Indonesia 211-212, 214, 319 Indonesian Air Force 212…

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## Secret NOFORN

Index

390

WHALE TALE

247, 249

Wheelon, Albert (Bud)

240, 287, 333

Wheelus AFB

121

White House

33, 43, 97, 109, 111-112, 120, 122,

128, 154, 172, 186, 189

Wienberg, Charles F. (Bud)

7, 11-12

Wiesbaden, Germany

80, 95, 104-105, 108, 114-115,

120-121

Wiesner, Jerome B.

37

Williams, John J.

185

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

222

Wilson, Charles

126

wind currents

87

wind tunnels

269

wing teeth

277

wings

5, 8, 11, 23-25, 42, 45, 47, 66, 68,

72, 75-76, 80, 89, 95, 129, 148-149,

199, 242, 248, 251, 271, 274, 277,

286, 312, 340

wiretaps

2

Wonsan Harbor

307

Worcester, Massachusetts

62

world press

85, 122

World War I

1

World War II

1-2, 4, 7-8, 13, 15, 17, 22, 42,

49, 56, 62, 87, 95, 97, 124, 135,

214, 222, 232, 317, 322, 327-331

Wright Air Development Command

4-5,8,12,14,18,35,73

Wright-Patterson

73

WRINGER

2

WS-461L

144-145

Wu-ch'ang, China

228

## X

XF-104

(See Lockheed Day Fighter)

X-16

9, 13, 15, 26, 34-35

X-band radar pulses

335

X-rays

291

## Y

YAK-25RM

(See Mandrake)

YAK-26

(See Mandrake)

Yakovlev

148

Yakovlev-25

148

Yale University

15

Yancey, William F.

75, 77-78

YC-97 Boeing Stratocruiser

13

Yerevan, Soviet Union

124

YF-12A

285, 291, 294, 308

50z(See also AF-12)

Yokota AFB, Japan

134

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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.