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

People, programs and institutions from The Legacy Program research board whose names appear in this file, found by exact spelling against a hand-checked list. A match says only that the file names them, not what part they play. People and programs lists every file that names each one.

• Tier B Richard M. Bissell Jr. person

  Named in pages 28, 29, 43, 44, 52, 53, 54, 56 and 70 more.

  CIA Special Assistant for Planning and Coordination from 1954; ran the U-2 project and selected Groom Lake

• Tier B Allen W. Dulles person

  Named in pages 29, 30, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 52 and 35 more.

  Director of Central Intelligence; signed the CIA's distancing letters on the Robertson Panel report

• Tier B H. Marshall Chadwell person

  Named in page 29.

  Assistant Director, CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence

• Tier B Harry S. Truman person

  Named in pages 30, 398.

  President of the United States from 12 April 1945; signatory of the 22 January 1946 intelligence directive and of the National Security Act of 1947

• Tier B Gen. Charles P. Cabell person

  Named in pages 43, 44, 49, 50, 56, 101, 114, 135 and 9 more.

  Director of Intelligence, USAF, to 1953; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, 1953 to 1962

• Tier C Ben R. Rich person

  Named in page 58.

  Director, Lockheed Advanced Development Projects (Skunk Works), 1975-1991

• Tier B Nathan F. Twining person

  Named in pages 73, 74, 99, 101, 109, 112, 114, 140 and 7 more.

  Cmdr, Air Materiel Command; later CJCS

• Tier B Neil H. McElroy person

  Named in pages 159, 174.

  Secretary of Defense from 9 October 1957; issued DoD Directive 5105.15 establishing ARPA, 7 February 1958

• Tier A Project Blue Book program

  Named in pages 4, 85, 86, 371.

  Public-facing USAF UFO program (1952-1969)

• Tier A Central Intelligence Agency institution

  Named in the title, the official summary and pages 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 147 more.

  Independent civilian foreign intelligence service; convener of the Robertson Panel

• Tier C Bell Aircraft Corporation institution

  Named in pages 22, 371.

  Buffalo aircraft firm named in the Talbert gravity series of November 1955; its founder and president Lawrence D. Bell quoted directly

• Tier B Strategic Air Command (SAC) institution

  Named in pages 24, 30, 98, 100, 106, 222, 339, 396.

  The USAF major command that owned every installation in this cluster; the institutional spine of the nuclear-incursion record, 1946 to 1992

• Tier A RAND Corporation institution

  Named in pages 33, 39, 98, 391.

  Nonprofit operator of four FFRDCs (Project AIR FORCE, Arroyo Center, National Defense Research Institute, HSOAC); Santa Monica, CA; est. 1948 out of Project RAND (1946)

• Tier C Boston University institution

  Named in pages 35, 37, 65, 338, 372.

  University; academic home of Laurence Kotlikoff

• Tier C National Security Council institution

  Named in pages 40, 174, 180, 201, 204, 210, 225, 307 and 3 more.

  Statutory body, 1947; the approving authority for covert action and the issuer of the NSC directive series

• Tier B Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works) institution

  Named in pages 58, 59, 81, 84, 145, 264, 275, 286 and 1 more.

  Unacknowledged-program aeronautics organisation, Burbank then Palmdale

• Tier A Atomic Energy Commission institution

  Named in pages 69, 146, 287, 338, 370.

  Civilian atomic authority, 1946-1974; statutory custodian of fissionable material and atomic weapons

• Tier B National Security Agency institution

  Named in pages 94, 198, 339, 340, 386.

  Signals intelligence and cybersecurity agency; established 4 November 1952 by classified presidential memorandum

• Tier C House Armed Services Committee institution

  Named in page 101.

  HASC; conference principal under Chairman Rogers

• Tier B Senate Armed Services Committee institution

  Named in pages 101, 112, 198.

  Committee of jurisdiction over the NDAA vehicle

• Tier A United States Air Force institution

  Named in pages 122, 139, 364.

  Military department; original custodian of the UFO record and of the Roswell material

• Tier A EG&G (Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier) institution

  Named in pages 143, 287, 338, 376.

  Nuclear test instrumentation and classified site services; Groom Lake support

• Tier A Air Technical Intelligence Center institution

  Named in pages 181, 338.

  USAF technical intelligence centre, Wright-Patterson AFB

• Tier A National Aeronautics and Space Administration institution

  Named in pages 191, 192, 195, 267, 339, 386.

  Civil space agency; host of the 2023 UAP Independent Study Team

• Tier C General Dynamics Corporation institution

  Named in pages 281, 284, 325, 378.

  Prime contractor; submarines, undersea systems, Electric Boat

• Tier B Federal Aviation Administration institution

  Named in page 302.

  Civil aviation regulator in the Department of Transportation; first-listed contributing agency to NARA Record Group 615

• Tier A Defense Intelligence Agency institution

  Named in page 323.

  Combat support agency; AAWSAP/AATIP executive agent

• Tier B The Aerospace Corporation institution

  Named in pages 341, 368.

  Nonprofit operator of the Aerospace FFRDC for the US Space Force; El Segundo, CA; founded 1960

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