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

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• Page 1 Approved for Release 2026 Secret NOFORN The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954 - 1974 Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach Secret
• Page 2 Secret NOFORN The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 Secret
• Page 3 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…
• Page 4 Contents 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…
• Page 5 Secret NOFORN Hiring U-2 Pilots Pilot Training Final Tests of the U-2 Three Fatal Crashes in 1956 Coordination of Collection Requirements Preparations To Handle the Product of U-2 Missions The Impact…
• Page 6 Secret NOFORN Chapter 5 U-2 Operations After May 1960 U-2 Operations in Latin America U-2 Support to the Bay of Pigs Invasion Aerial Refueling Capability for the U-2 U-2 Coverage During the Cuban…
• Page 7 - 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…
• Page 8 Warning Notice Intelligence Sources or Methods Involved (WNINTEL) National Security Information Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions Dissemination Control Abbreviations NOFORN (NF)…
• Page 9 - Secret NOFORN FOREWORD This History Staff Monograph offers a comprehensive and authoritative history of the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program, which from 1954 to 1974 developed and…
• Page 10 -Secret NOFORN- reconnaissance program offers no tidy model for imitation, it does reveal how resourceful managers coped with unprecedented technological challenges and their implications for…