The Cia and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974

By Pedlow, Gregory W.

Book Id: WPLBN0000701783
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 9.30 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Cia and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974
Author:	Pedlow, Gregory W.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; e-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: FOREWORD; This History Staff Monograph offers a comprehensive and authoritative history of the C.I.A.'s manned overhead reconnaissance program, which form 1954 to 1974 developed and operated two extraordinary aircraft the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART.

Table of Contents
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, 1 3 -- 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, 2.3 -- The Intelligence Systems Panel and the CL-282, 24 -- The Technological Capabilities Panel, 2.6 -- Project Three Support for the Lockheed CL-282, 27 -- A Meeting With the President, 3 2 -- CIA and Air Force Agreement on the CL.282, 33 -- iE Chapter 2 -- Developing the U-2 -- The Establishment of the U-2 Project, -- Funding Arrangements for Project AQUATONE, -- Major Design Features of the U-2, -- The Development of the Camera System, -- Preparations for Testing the U-2, . -- SecuriQ for the U-2 Project, . -- The CIA, Air Force Partnership -- Technical Challenges to High-Altitude Flight, -- Delivery of the First U-2, . -- Initial Testing of the U.2, . -- U.2s, UFOs. and Operation BLUE BOOK, .