Documents / FOIA release

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."

Open the PDF at page 6 Original source ↗

“Headquarters”18 pages

  • p. 22 …Bell was still being developed.'' Air Force headquarters soon approved Martin's proposal to mod- ify…
  • p. 55 CO5653421 UNCLASSIFIED E0129581.6(dlill>10<25Yrs ISI personnel divided among project headquarters, a US test…
  • p. 73 …On 3 August 1955, Dulles and Twining met at SAC headquarters in Omaha to sign the…
  • p. 74 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (TS Codeword). " Brig. Gen. Leo…
  • p. 102 …U-2 project officer, the Air Force Headquarters project officer, and NACA's top official, Dr…
  • p. 107 …did not have to report to higher headquarters. WRSP-1, known within the Agency as Detachment…
  • p. 117 …Late on the evening of 3 July, Bissell went to project headquarters in the Matomic Building…
  • p. 127 …The PARAMOUNT Committee worked inside PID headquarters in the Steuart Building. Composed of members from CIA…
  • p. 138 …and prom tly reported the conversation to headquarters. When details of close call reached Washington, James…
  • p. 153 …of Detachment A achieved excellent results, project headquarters had already decided that Western Europe was not…
  • p. 194 …Because the new government had not been briefed on the U-2, Project Headquarters refused to…
  • p. 205 …its own building to the new CIA Headquarters at Langley. Soon afterward, Col. Stanley W. Beerli…
  • p. 312 …that the performance of an A-12 with 175 engines (as suggested by project headquarters for…
  • p. 319 …12958 1.61111111>1010<25Yrs (Si Project Headquarters in Langley_planned and directed all operational BLACK…
  • p. 323 …Project headquarters informed Deputy Defense Secretary Vance on 10 January 1967 that the A- 12s would…
  • p. 324 …President Johnson con- firmed this decision on 21 May.'" - - Project headquarters selected 8 June 1968 as…
  • p. 334 …Air Force personnel served at all levels of the recon- naissance program, from project headquarters to…
  • p. 365 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (Top Secret Codeword). Interview with…
CO5653421 UNCLASSIFIED
Ssagt_picatawy-
;4 Chapter 5
U-2 Operations After May 1960
U-2 Operations in Latin America 197
U•2 Support to the Bay of Pigs Invasion 197
Aerial Refueling Capability for the U-2 198
U-2 Cover During the Cuban Missile Crisis 199
U-2s Over 211
U-2 Operations in Asia 211
211
China Offshore Islands Dispute of 1958 215
216
U-2Cs for Detachment C 217
EO 129581.6101111>1010<25Yrs
(Si 219End of Detachment C Operations
Detachment G Missions Over Laos and North Vietnam 221
New Detachment 222
Use of lAircraft by US Pilots 230
231
Increasing Responsibilities, Inadequate Resources in Asia 233
Advanced ECM Equipment 237
238
240
242
244
Operation SCOPE SHIELD Over North Vietnam 246
Improvements in U-2 Technology 247
Modification of U-2s for Aircraft Carrier Deployment 247
249
A New Version of the U-2 251
Replacement of the Original U-2s With U-2Rs 253
The Final Years of the U-2 253
Support to Other Agencies 254
Overseas Deployment Exercises and Missions 255
The Phaseout of the Office of Special Activities 257
4 Chapter 6
The U-2's Intended Successor: Project OXCART, 1956-1968
The Evaluation of Designs for a Successor to the U-2 260
Competition Between Lockheed and Convair 267
The Selection of the Lockheed Design 270
Efforts To Reduce the A-12's Radar Cross Section 274
The OXCART Contract 277
UNCLASSIFIED

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.