“Mission Control”28 pages
- p. 9 …The struggle between the CIA and the US Air Force to control the U-2 and…
- p. 72 …2 missions. Access to the photographs taken by the U-2 would be strictly controlled, which…
- p. 73 …This pact gave the Air Force responsibility for pilot selection and training, weather information, mission plotting…
- p. 81 …Before the start of a mission, the ground crew set the counters to indicate the total…
- p. 96 …All of the products from this project would be placed in the new control system. By…
- p. 100 …This was an S-band radar used by Soviet forces for early warning and ground-controlled…
- p. 113 …The President nevertheless maintained tight control over the program and authorized only 10 days of overflights…
- p. 128 …personnel controlling overseas photo processing and interpretation centers, which were normally under Air Force control. Further…
- p. 140 …Although the President would not allow U-2s to fly their primary mission of reconnaissance of…
- p. 142 …of the first series of U-2 missions. The CIA proprietary firm Scientific Engineering Institute was…
- p. 147 …To take advantage of these weaknesses, Detachment C staged three missions from Alaska into the Soviet…
- p. 156 …After these missions, penetration overflights became a rarity. There would be only six more during the…
- p. 167 …U-2 missions. To handle U-2 material, the British created a new control system, which…
- p. 168 …The British missions would be operationally controlled by CIA project headquarters. Soon afterward four British pilots…
- p. 169 …of authority for the joint program: "British missions are carried out on your authority and are…
- p. 170 Secret NOFORN
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May 1959, and used to fly weather missions on 7 and 8…
- p. 180 …As in December, the pilot was British, and the mission had been ordered by Prime Minister…
- p. 188 …some Soviet airborne-missile fire-control systems.
Operation GRAND SLAM, mission 4154 and the 24th deep…
- p. 191 …This revised cover story, along with a mission flight plan consistent with it, was sent to…
- p. 193 …the impression that he was not in control of his administration. On Wednesday, 11 May, the…
- p. 196 …with Abel's "wife" (probably his Soviet control) in East Germany. In November 1961, Acting DCI…
- p. 204 …in the DDP in order to maintain control of his overhead reconnaissance projects (the U-2…
- p. 220 …Strongly favoring Air Force control of the U-2 missions over Cuba, the DOD representatives called…
- p. 237 …In reality, however, the United States would maintain strict control over the missions to be flown…
- p. 335 …The flood of information that the U-2 missions gathered led to a major expansion of…
- p. 340 …In 1959 Bissell became Deputy Director for Plans but kept the reconnaissance projects under his control…
- p. 348 …System-I used S- and X-band ELINT receivers to collect ground-controlled intercept and air…
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U-2s equipped with the A-1 camera system also carried a Perkin-Elmer tracking camera using 2.75-inch film and a 3-inch lens. This device made continuous horizon-to-horizon photographs of the terrain passing beneath the aircraft. Because the A-1 system was new, it also included a backup camera system, a K-17 6-inch three-camera trimetrogon unit using 9-inch film.
While the A-1 system was still being developed, James Baker was already working on the next generation of lenses for high-altitude reconnaissance. Baker was a pioneer in using computers to synthesize optical systems. His software algorithms made it possible to model lens designs and determine in advance the effects that variations in lens curvatures, glass compounds, and lens spacings would have on rays of light passing through a lens. These "ray-tracing" programs required extensive computations, and, for this he turned to the most modern computer available, an IBM CPC (card-programmed calculator) installation at nearby Boston University. $ ^{17} $