Documents / FOIA release
This is a 1992 CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, originally classified Secret NOFORN and approved for release in 2013. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and the two aircraft it developed, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. The history covers the U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union, the 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers and later operations in Asia and Latin America. It also includes a section on U-2s, UFOs and Operation BLUE BOOK.
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## APPENDIX A AEC Atomic Energy Commission AFB Air Force Base AFDAP Air Force office symbol for the Assistant for Development Planning under the Deputy Chief of Staff for Development AMD Air/Maritime Division ARC Ad Hoc Requirements Committee ARDC Air Research and Development Command (USAF) ASPIC Asian Photographic Interpretation Center ATIC Air Technical Intelligence Center (USAF) BSAP Boston Scientific Advisory Panel BUORL Boston University Optical Research Laboratory COMINT Communications Intelligence COMIREX Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation COMOR Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance DB “Dirty Bird” DCI Director of Central Intelligence DCID Director of Central Intelligence Directive DDCI Deputy Director of Central Intelligence DDI Deputy Director for Intelligence DDP Deputy Director (or Directorate) for Plans DDS&T Deputy Director for Science and Technology DPD Development Projects Division DPS Development Projects Staff ECM Electronic Countermeasures EG&G Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Incorporated ELINT Electronic Intelligence FCRC Federally Controlled Research Center HASP High-Altitude Air Sampling Program IAC Intelligence Advisory Committee IAS Indicated air speed IC Intelligence community ICBM Intercontinental ballistic missile IR Infrared ISP Intelligence Systems Panel (USAF) JRC Joint Reconnaissance Center MATS Military Air Transport Service (USAF)
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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; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.