Spyflights and Overflights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spyflights and Overflights write by Robert Hopkins. This book was released on 2016. Spyflights and Overflights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few aviation subjects have been shrouded in more secrecy or been more controversial than Cold War aerial reconnaissance. Former reconnaissance pilot Robert S. Hopkins, III, offers new insights into strategic intelligence flights during the early years of the cold war. Primarily undertaken by RB-50s and RB-47s of the Strategic Air Command and by CIA U-2s, other Western nations such as Britain, Sweden, and Taiwan were equally committed to gathering intelligence about the Soviet Union and its allies, and conducted their own peripheral and overflight missions. Hopkins challenges longstanding beliefs that the flights served to prevent war, curtailed needless defense spending, and were undertaken by rogue generals bent on starting World War III. For the first time he shows the Soviet perspective on the flights, and makes a compelling case that reconnaissance flights did not have a sustained adverse effect on Soviet relations with the West. Using newly-declassified materials, interviews with crews and policy makers, and his own experience flying strategic reconnaissance missions, Hopkins links the daily operations of courageous fliers with decisions by presidents and prime ministers that decided the outcome of the Cold War.
Spy Flights of the Cold War
Spy Flights of the Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spy Flights of the Cold War write by Paul Lashmar. This book was released on 1996. Spy Flights of the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author reveals the secret spyplane war which took place in the skies over Soviet Russia during the Cold War.
Operation Overflight
Operation Overflight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operation Overflight write by Francis Gary Powers. This book was released on 2011-03. Operation Overflight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After surviving the shoot-down of his reconnaissance plane and his capture on May 1, 1960, Powers endured sixty-one days of rigorous interrogation by the KGB, a public trial, a conviction for espionage, and the start of a ten-year sentence. After nearly two years, the U.S. government obtained his release from prison in a dramatic exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel. The narrative is a tremendously exciting suspense story about a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his countrymen but who emerged a Cold War hero.
Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage
Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage write by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel. This book was released on 2019-02-19. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the US and its allies developed a selective overflight program to gather intelligence. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage is a history of the Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union, its allies, and the People's Republic of China, based on extensive interviews with dozens of pilots who flew these dangerous missions. In 1954 the number of flights expanded, and the highly classified SENSINT program was born. Soon, American RB-45C, RB-47E/H, RF-100s, and various versions of the RB-57 were in the air on an almost constant basis, providing the president and military leadership with hard facts about enemy capabilities and intentions. Eventually the SENSINT program was replaced by the high-flying U-2 spy plane. The U-2 overflights removed the mysteries of Soviet military power. These flights remained active until 1960 when a U-2 was shot down by Russian missiles, leading to the end of the program. Shortly thereafter planes were replaced by spy satellites. The overflights were so highly classified that no one, planner or participant, was allowed to talk about them—and no one did, until the overflight program and its pictorial record was declassified in the 1990s. Through extensive research of existing literature on the overflights and interviews conducted by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, this book reveals the story of the entire overflight program through the eyes of the pilots and crew who flew the planes. Samuel's account tells the stories of American heroes who risked their lives—and sometimes lost them—to protect their country.
The CIA and the U-2 Program 1954-1974
The CIA and the U-2 Program 1954-1974 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The CIA and the U-2 Program 1954-1974 write by Gregory W. Pedlow. This book was released on 1998. The CIA and the U-2 Program 1954-1974 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive & authoritative history of the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program (MORP), which from 1954 to 1974 developed & operated 2 extraordinary aircraft, the U-2 & the A-12 OXCART. Describes not only the program's technological & bureaucratic aspects, but also its political & international context. The MORP, along with other overhead systems that emerged from it, changed the CIA's work & structure in ways that were both revolutionary & permanent. The formation of the Directorate of S&T in the 1960s, principally to develop & direct reconnaissance programs, is the most obvious legacy of the events in this study.
