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This is a CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, published in Washington in 1992 and approved for release in 2011. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974, which developed and flew the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. It traces the U-2's development, the overflights of the Soviet Union, the downing of Francis Gary Powers on 1 May 1960, and later operations. One section is titled U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK.
“Mission Control”17 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 sys-
tem…
- 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 …the following day, whithi next U-2 mission
returned from the Middle East. After quickly developing…
- p. 140 …Welzenbach (S);
Mission folder 4020 (18 Marcn n, CJJA rerar9 ITS Codeword).
OSA History. chap. 4…
- p. 142 …of the first series of U-2 missions
as condu
this research under a project codenamed…
- p. 147 …not an easy task in crowded
Japan.`)
Detachment C began conducting missions in June 1957 after…
- p. 191 …This revised cover story, along with a mission flight plan consistent
with it, was sent to…
- 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 reconnais-
sance projects (the U…
- p. 220 …Strongly favoring Air Force control of the
U-2 missions over Cuba. the DOD representatives called…
- 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…
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FIRST A-12 DEPLOYMENT: OPERATION BLACK SHIELD
Although the Tallinn mission was still being considered in May 1967,
another possible employment for the OXCART came under discus-
sion. This time the proposal was for OXCART to collect tactical
rather than strategic intelligence. The cause was apprehension in
Washington about the possible undetected introduction of sur-
face-to-surface missiles into North Vietnam. When President Johnson
asked for a proposal on the matter, the CIA suggested that the
OXCART be used. While the State and Defense Departments were
still examining the proposal's political risks, DCI Richard Helms
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