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CIA-UAP-003, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974

Central Intelligence Agency · 1954 · 406 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is a Secret History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach of the Central Intelligence Agency, published in 1992. It gives a history of the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974, covering the development and operation of the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART aircraft. It covers overflights of the Soviet Union, the 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers, and later operations. One section is titled "U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK."

From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 This CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft programs from 1954 to 1974, detailing their development, operations over the Soviet Union and other targets worldwide, the famous downing of Francis Gary Powers in 1960, organizational reforms following that incident, and the eventual transfer of operations from CIA to Air Force control. A more redacted version of this document has been available on CIA's public website.

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  • p. 40 …and meetings with every major unit of the US defense and intelligence establish ments. After receiving…
  • p. 98 …The Soviet Union sent strongly worded protest notes to the United States and the nations from…
  • p. 102 …not only press releases and the public Line to be taken, but also the suspension of…
  • p. 107 …in the United Kingdom. At about the ' Ibid.. pp. 17-18 (TS Codeword). ' Press Release of…
  • p. 112 …at a press conference that the Soviet Union might be ahead of the United States in…
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  • p. 167 …By 1957 cooperation be tween the United Kingdom and the United States had expanded to include…
  • p. 174 …Defense Department officials pressed President Eisenhower to authorize renewed overflights to gather up-to-date in…
  • p. 183 …On the 9 April overflight, the U-2 's ELINT-collection unit (System VI) indicated Soviet…
  • p. 195 …in the press about the presence of "spyplanes" on Japanese territory, asked the United States to…
  • p. 198 …DCI records (S). " United States Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee. £recutive Sessions of tlze Sencae Foreign…
  • p. 307 …By 1962 the United States had become aware of the effectiveness of a new Soviet radar…
  • p. 315 …To preserve the secrecy of the OXCART program, the Air Force informed the press that an…
  • p. 328 …at times when the press and Congress alleged that the United States was falling behind the…
  • p. 362 …Smithsonian Institute Press, l 985. Khrushchev. Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Boston: Little, Brown…
  • p. 401 …United Kingdom (See Great Britain) United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154 United Nations 20 United Press International…
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Index
Goering, Hermann
66
Goldmark, Peter C.
18
golf balls
- 50
Goodpaster. Andrew J.
89. 97. 100. 105-106. 109, 120. 126
128, 144. 146. 167. 172,187,329
Grace. Frank G.
80
GRANDSLAM
170. 172. 174-175
Granger Company
336
GRC- 127
205
Great Britain
3. 7, 23. 93-95. 112-113. 115. 117.
120. 153-156. 181. 303. 319
Air Ministry
94. 155
counterintelligence operative
94 -
Greyhoun<I bus
289
Groom Lake
56. 66. 133
Groton
15
!!round resolution
- 281-282. 250
Guatemala
. 157
"guided democracy"
212
Gulf Coast
254
Gulf of Finland
142
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
231
2ust control
- 47
GUSTO
274
H
H camera
244. 247. 253. 256. 282
Hagerstown, Maryland
9
Haiphong Harbor
247
H:ilaby. Najeeb E.
289
Hall. Wiliam
117. 119. 143
Haller-Raymond-Brown (HRS)
335
"handing off'
87
[__"hanger queen"
175
Harvard University
18. 21-22. 29, 50-51. 327. 129
!Harvard College Observatory
21
IHawk-750 glider kit
342
haze filters
105
IHBJARGON
175-176
IHBJGO
176
heavy water
19
Helms. Richard M.
253. 256. 304-305, 309-310. 329
HEN HOUSE
168
HEN ROOST installations
168
Hener. Christian
127. 163
" hiding in the open"
55
high-acuity cameras
2 1, 50-51. 327
high-altitude air sampling (H ASP)
219
hi!!h-altitude aircraft
- 4. 8. 16. 24. 59. 148. 304
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