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The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; the U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974

Central Intelligence Agency · 1900-01-01 · 406 pages · text by OCR, confidence 99%

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Approved for Release: 2013/06/25 Secret NOFORN Chapter 4 193 Office of Special Activities Special Assistant for Liaison Assistant Director for Special Activities Deputy Assistant Director Executive Officer Security Staff Programs Staff Deputy for Technology Deputy for Field Activities Advanced Projects Division Engineering Analysis Division Development Division Contracts Division Support Division Intelligence Division Communications Division Operations Division Materiel Division Directors, DDS&T dropped the “Deputy” from its title in 1965 and became known as the Directorate of Science and Technology). In 1965 the head of OSA received a new title, Director of Special Activities. The Office of Special Activities remained in control of the CIA’s overhead reconnaissance activities until 1974, when the Agency ended its involvement with manned reconnaissance aircraft.⁵⁷ --- ⁵⁷ *OSA Chronology*, pp. 34-35 (TS Codeword). Secret Approved for Release: 2013/06/25

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 99%); expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.