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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.
“Canberra”10 pages
- p. 18 …This search soon led him to a British twin-engine medium bomber—the Canberra—built by…
- p. 19 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 1
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RAF Canberra Mark-PR3
division in Baltimore, headed by Lt. Col…
- p. 22 …high-altitude performance of the B-57 Canberra. By January 1954 all three firms had submitted…
- p. 36 …The RAF equipped the new Canberra PR7 with RollsRoyce Avon-109 engines and gave it long…
- p. 37 …altitude flight being made to the US Canberra, the B-57. $ ^{41} $
## The Intelligence Systems Panel…
- p. 80 …production was needed to power specially configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first…
- p. 122 …a reconnaissance version of the twin-engine Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin…
- p. 175 …2 and an Air Force RB-57D Canberra. The two aircraft cruised along the Soviet border…
- p. 372 …310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332, 333
Canberra
5, 9, 23-24, 67, 109, 117, 162…
- p. 401 …General
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oxygen mask
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RB-57D Canberra
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Third Air Force
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US deterrent force…
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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.