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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## Secret NOFORN MRBM Medium-range ballistic missile NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NAS Naval air station NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIE National Intelligence Estimate NPIC National Photographic Interpretation Center NSA National Security Agency NSC National Security Council NSCID National Security Council Intelligence Directive ODM Office of Defense Mobilization ORR Office of Research and Reports OSA Office of Special Activities OSI Office of Scientific Intelligence PBCFIA President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities P-E Perkin-Elmer Company PFIAB President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board PI Photointerpreter PIC Photographic Intelligence Center PID Photo-Intelligence Division PSAC President's Science Advisory Committee RAF Royal Air Force RFP Request for proposal SAB Scientific Advisory Board (USAF) SAC Science Advisory Committee SAC Strategic Air Command SA/PC/DCI Special Assistant to the DCI for Planning and Coordination SAM Surface-to-air missile SEI Scientific Engineering Institute SENSINT Sensitive intelligence (USAF) SLAR Side-looking aerial radar TAS True air speed TCP Technological Capabilities Panel USIB United States Intelligence Board WADC Wright Air Development Command (USAF) WRSP Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Provisional
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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.