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

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Chapter 2
The Steuart Building, home
of the Photo-lntelligel"lce
Division
flood of photographs that the U-2 would bring back. so in May 1955
. t~~ Directorate of Support (DS) authorized expanding PID to 44 per­
sons. Soon afterward the division moved from its room in M Building
to larger quarters in Que Building.
The Photo-[ntelligence Division continued to expand in anticipa­
tion of large quantities of U-2 photography. lts authorized strength
doubled in January
1956
when a new project known
as
HTAUTOMAT came into existence to exploit U-2 photography. All of
the products from this project would be placed in the new control sys­
tem. By the summer of 1956, the PlD had moved to larger quarters in
the Steuart Building at 5th Street and New York Avenue, NW. PID
photointerpreters had already begun to work with U-2 photography
following a series of missions in April 1956. when U-2s photo­
graphed a number of US installations that. were considered analogous
to high-priority Soviet installations. As a result of these preparations,
PrD was ready for the mass of photography that began coming when
U-2 operations commenced in the summer of 1956.""
~ For a more detailed history of photointerpretation in the CIA. sec Urban J. Lim:han. The
National Photographic lmerpretation Center. vol. I. Antecedents anti Early Years.
Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Sc:ries NPIC-2. December 1972. pp.
171 -19~ (S).