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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.
Central Intelligence Agency · 406 pages · text from the file's own layer
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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Johnson, "Archangel log," 17-24
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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 4
186
snubbed by President Kennedy, who one year earlier had warmly wel-
comed two Air Force RB-47 fliers released by the Soviet Union.
McCone remained hostile to Powers, and in April 1963 he awarded
the Intelligence Star to all of the U-2 pilots except Powers. Finally on
25 April 1965, just two days before McCone's resignation became ef-
fective, Powers received the Star (which was dated 1963 on the back)
from DDCI Marshall S. Carter."
Powers' return from captivity raised the question of what his fu-
ture employment should be. This issue had already been discussed
one year earlier by John N. McMahon, executive officer of the DPD,
who noted that he and Col. Leo P. Geary (the Air Force project offi-
cer) were concerned about a major dilemma for the CIA and the US
Government: I
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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.