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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 Appendix D 337 ## APPENDIX D U-2 Overflights of the Soviet Union, 4 July 1954-1 May 1960 Date Mission Pilot Airfield Unit Payload Route 4 July 1956 2013 Stockman Wiesbaden A A-2 East Germany, Poland, Minsk, Leningrad, Estonia, Latvia, Poland 5 July 1956 2014 Vito Wiesbaden A A-2 East Germany, Warsaw, Minsk, Moscow, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland 9 July 1956 2020 Knutson Wiesbaden A A-2 East Germany, Poland, Minsk, Poland 9 July 1956 2021 Overstreet Wiesbaden A A-2 Czechoslovakia, Vienna, Hungary, L’vov, Kiev, Minsk, Poland 10 July 1956 2024 Dunaway Wiesbaden A A-2 Poland, Kishinev, Kerch’, Sevastopol’, Simferopol’, Odessa, Romania, Hungary 20 November 1956 4016 Powers Adana B A-2 Iran, Yerevan, Baku, Astara, Caucasus 18 March 1957 4020 Cherbonneaux Adana B Sys-V Soviet border to Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia 20 June 1957 6005 Rand Eielson C B Khaylyulya, Ust’-Kamchatsk, Kozyrevsk, Karaganskiy-Ostrov 5 August 1957 4035 Edens Lahore B B Afghanistan, Tashkent, Tyuratam, Kazalinsk, Aral Sea 11 August 1957 4039 McMurray Lahore B B Alma-Ata, Ust’-Kamenogorsk, Sinkiang 21 August 1957 4045 Snider Lahore B A-2 Novokuznetsk, Tomsk 21 August 1957 4048 Jones Lahore B A-2 Lake Balkhash, Karaganda, Omsk, Alma-Ata
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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.