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CIA-UAP-003-THE_CENTRAL_INTELLIGENCE_AGENCY_AND_OVERHEAD_RECONNAISSANCE-THE_U-2_AND_OXCART_PROGRAMS_1954-1974.pdf
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Approved for Release 2021 Secret NOFORN  Secret
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Secret NOFORN # The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 Secret
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Secret NOFORN # The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach  History Staff Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 1992 Secret
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 ## ♦ Chapter 1 Searching for a System - The Need for High-Altitude Reconnaissance... 1 - Early Postwar Aerial Reconnaissance... 2 - New Approaches to Photoreconnaissance... 4 - The Air Force Search for a New Reconnaissance Aircraft... 8 - Lockheed CL-282 Supporters and the CIA... 13 - Scientists and Overhead Reconnaissance... 17 - The BEACON HILL Report... 17 - Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack... 19 - The Air Force Intelligence Systems Panel... 21 - British Overflight of Kapustin Yar... 23 - The Intelligence Systems Panel and the CL-282... 24 - T…
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Secret NOFORN Hiring U-2 Pilots ... 73 Pilot Training ... 75 Final Tests of the U-2 ... 76 Three Fatal Crashes in 1956 ... 79 Coordination of Collection Requirements ... 80 Preparations To Handle the Product of U-2 Missions ... 82 The Impact of the Air Force Project GENETRIX Balloons ... 84 AQUATONE Briefings for Selected Members of Congress ... 88 The U-2 Cover Story ... 89 ♦ Chapter 3 U-2 Operations in the Soviet Bloc and Middle East, 1956-1958 The Deployment of Detachment A to Lakenheath ... 94 The Move to Wiesbaden ... 95 President Eisenhower's Attitude Toward Overflights ... 96 First O…
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Secret NOFORN ## 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 Coverage During the Cuban Missile Crisis ... 199 - U-2s Over South America ... 211 - U-2 Operations in Asia ... 211 - Detachment C and the Indonesian Revolt of 1958 ... 211 - China Offshore Islands Dispute of 1958 ... 215 - U-2 Support for DDP Operations in Tibet ... 216 - U-2Cs for Detachment C ... 217 - U-2 Crash in Thailand ... 219 - End of Detachment C Operations ... 219 - Detachmen…
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Secret NOFORN New Technologies Necessitated By OXCART's High Speed 279 Designing the OXCART's Cameras 281 Choosing Pilots for OXCART 283 Selection of a Testing Site for the OXCART 283 Delivery of the First OXCART 286 Changes in the Project Management 286 OXCART's First Flights 288 Speed-Related Problems 290 New Versions of the OXCART 291 The Question of Surfacing a Version of the OXCART 292 Additional Problems During Final Testing 295 Discussions on the OXCART's Future Employment 297 First A-12 Deployment: Operation BLACK SHIELD 304 The End of the OXCART Program 307 Possible Successors to the…
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# Warning Notice Intelligence Sources or Methods Involved (WNINTEL) # National Security Information Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions ## Dissemination Control Abbreviations | NOFORN (NF) | Not releasable to foreign nationals | | --- | --- | | NOCONTRACT (NC) | Not releasable to contractors or contractor/consultants | | PROPIN (PR) | Caution—proprietary information involved | | ORCON (OC) | Dissemination and extraction of information controlled by originator | | REL... | This information has been authorized for release to... | | WN | WNINTEL—Intelligence sour…
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