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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. 16 …An RB-29 lost in the Sea of Japan on 13 June 1952 was probably also…
- p. 38 …off to about 6 percent of its sea-level thrust.
Finally, low structural load factors, like…
- p. 75 …3 0 0 ^{\circ} \mathrm{F} $ at sea level. Manufacturing this special fuel required petroleum byproducts…
- p. 80 …276 pounds heavier and delivered only 10,200 pounds of thrust at sea level; the resulting
- p. 89 …that they could not be flown at sea level faster than 190 knots in smooth air…
- p. 98 …southern Europe and then across the Black Sea and the desert areas of China. These balloons…
- p. 139 …Soviet border from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and on to Afghanistan. The System…
- p. 146 …On 31 July, the same aircraft made a run over the Black Sea. There were a…
- p. 148 …space launch facility east of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. None of the mission planners was…
- p. 153 …of Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea. The final overflight of Detachment A. mission 2040…
- p. 157 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 3
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U-2s flying well within international airspace above the Black Sea…
- p. 158 …it turned abruptly upward over the Bering Sea just west of Alaska, climbed to 110,000…
- p. 166 …the Soviet border and over the Black Sea without entering Soviet airspace. In late August, as…
- p. 185 …Because the Bodo airfield was involved in NATO maneuvers taking place in the Barents Sea area…
- p. 225 …forces were conducting an all-out air-sea-land drive against the rebel-held areas in…
- p. 257 …The use of peripheral missions prevented any further losses, although one aircraft crashed into the sea…
- p. 316 …Shortly before Leningrad, the A-12 would head west-southwest down the Baltic Sea, skirting the…
- p. 317 …2 would be flying farther out to sea, safely beyond the range of all Soviet SAMs…
- p. 350 …B B Afghanistan, Tashkent, Tyuratam, Kazalinsk, Aral Sea
11 August 1957 4039 McMurray Lahore B B…
- p. 351 …A-2 Dushanbe, Tashkent, Tyuratam, Kazalinsk, Aral Sea
10 September 1957 4059 Hall Adana B A…
- p. 369 …AQUILINE
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Arabs
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Aral Sea
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Arbenz, Jacobo
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"Archangel-1"
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"Archangel…
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Baltic Sea
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Baltic states
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Baltimore; Maryland
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Barents…
- p. 373 …186, 201, 205, 208-209, 299, 327
Caspian Sea
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catheterized
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cathode-ray tube
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- p. 382 …23-24, 109, 139, 143, 164
Kara Sea
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Kazakh language
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Kazakhstan
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Kazan', Soviet…
- p. 385 …301
mechanical fuel totalizer/counters
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Mediterranean Sea
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medium-range…
- p. 393 …7
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Airport, Pennsylvania
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Sea of Japan
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Seaberg, John
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Chapter 5
U-2 Operations After May 1960
U-2 Operations in Latin America...197
U-2 Support to the Bay of Pigs Invasion...197
Aerial Refueling Capability for the U-2...198
U-2 Coverage During the Cuban Missile Crisis...199
U-2s Over South America...211
U-2 Operations in Asia...211
Detachment C and the Indonesian Revolt of 1958...211
China Offshore Islands Dispute of 1958...215
U-2 Support for DDP Operations in Tibet...216
U-2Cs for Detachment C...217
U-2 Crash in Thailand...219
End of Detachment C Operations...219
Detachment G Missions Over Laos and North Vietnam...221
New Detachment on Taiwan...222
Use of Detachment H Aircraft by US Pilots...230
U-2s in India...231
Increasing Responsibilities, Inadequate Resources in Asia...233
Advanced ECM Equipment for Detachment H...237
Use of Infrared Scanner Over PRC Nuclear Plants...238
...240
The End of U-2 Overflights of Mainland China...242
Peripheral Missions by Detachment H...244
Operation SCOPE SHIELD Over North Vietnam...246
Improvements in U-2 Technology...247
Modification of U-2s for Aircraft Carrier Deployment...247
Use of Carrier-Based U-2 To Film a French Nuclear Test Site...249
A New Version of the U-2...251
Replacement of the Original U-2s With U-2Rs...253
The Final Years of the U-2...253
Support to Other Agencies...254
Overseas Deployment Exercises and Missions...255
The Phaseout of the Office of Special Activities...257
Chapter 6
The U-2's Intended Successor: Project OXCART, 1956-1968
The Evaluation of Designs for a Successor to the U-2 ... 260
Competition Between Lockheed and Convair... 267
The Selection of the Lockheed Design... 270
Efforts To Reduce the A-12's Radar Cross Section... 274
The OXCART Contract ... 277
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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.