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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.
“Donald A. Johnson”17 pages
- p. 24 …Instead of a conventional landing gear, Johnson proposed using two
skis and a reinforced belly rib…
- p. 25 …a perceived shortcoming of the Lockheed design."'
Another factor in the rejection of Kelly Johnson's…
- p. 26 …interview by Donald E. Welzenbach, Corona del Mar. California.
20 May 1985 (S).
Johnson, "Log for…
- p. 27 …Gardner described Kelly
Johnson's proposal and showed the drawings to Strong. After this
meeting. Strong…
- p. 30 …To
make Kelly Johnson's revolutionary design a reality, one additional
source of support was necessary…
- p. 42 …When James Killian asked Land to head
Project Three, Land had to make a major decision…
- p. 48 …do the job in Johnson's airplane. And further, 1
overlaid a curve showing that with…
- p. 57 …demanding, and Kelly Johnson agreed
that such a move would save a lot of money. Lockheed…
- p. 58 …a week after he had been authorized to begin
the project, Kelly Johnson wrote a 23…
- p. 69 …project staff) flew LIZ with
Kelly Johnson in a small Beechcraft plane piloted by eed's…
- p. 72 …This responsibility has placed a
heavy burden on the Office of Security for establishing procedures to…
- p. 79 …Batlin suggested the method
used by Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, a thin glass ampule
containing…
- p. 81 …Kelly Johnson used a
"wet-wing" design for the U-2, which meant that fuel was…
- p. 89 …Airspeed was such a critical factor that Kelly Johnson
added a vernier adjustment to the throttle…
- p. 162 …By late 1957, Johnson agreed that something had to be done.
After a series of tests…
- p. 276 RN
Chapter 6
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Lockheed design for a hydrogen…
- p. 324 …OXCART did win a temporary reprieve in late
November 1967. The Johnson administration decided to keep…
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Chapter 2
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operating time. Three of the seven B-camera frames provided stereo
coverage. The complex B cameras were engineered by Hycon's chief
designer, William McFadden.'"
James Baker's idea for the ultimate high-altitude camera was the
C model that would have a 240-inch focal length. In December 1954,
he made preliminary designs for folding the optical path using three
mirrors, a prism, and an f/20.0 lens system. Before working out the
details of this design, however, Baker flew to California in early
January 1955 to consult with Kelly Johnson about the weight and
space limitations of the U-2's payload compartment. Despite every ef-
fort to reduce the physical dimensions of the C camera, Baker needed
an additional six inches of payload space to accommodate the bigger
lens. When he broached this subject to Johnson, the latter replied,
-Six more inches? I'd sell my grandmother for six more inches!"
Ibid.; Baker interview (S).
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.