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CIA/CSI/ History Staff Monograph, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 16 July 2002.
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This is a CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, written in 1992 and approved for release in 2011. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and its two aircraft, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. It follows their development, the overflights of the Soviet Union, the downing of Francis Gary Powers in 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…
Chapter 4
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strengthened when the Soviet Union did not protest the 9 April mis-
sion. As Presidential science adviser George Kistiakowsky later re-
marked about the lack of protest, "This was virtually inviting us to
repeat the sortie."2'
Although President Eisenhower had authorized another over-
flight for April, he left the designation of its targets up to the experts
at the CIA. Of the three missions that remained under consideration.
one—Operation SUN SPOT—would overfly southern targets,
Tyuratam and Vladimirovka, while the other two would cover rail-
road networks in the north-central portion of the Soviet Union. The
intelligence community had been interested in this area ever since late
1959, when there were indications that the Soviets were building an
SS-6 launch facility there. This was the first indication that SS-6s
might be located anywhere other than Tyuratam testing facility, where
the missiles were launched from a general purpose launching pad.
The intelligence community was anxious to obtain photography of a
George B. Kistiakowsky. A Scientist at the White House (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press. 1976), p. 328.
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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.