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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
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## APPENDIX D
Date Mission Pilot Airfield Unit Payload Route
22 August 1957 4049 Birkhead Lahore B A-2 Merket Bazar, Kuldja, Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, Sinkiang
22 August 1957 4050 Cherbonneaux Lahore B A-2 Lake Balkhash, Semipalatinsk, Barnaul, Prokop'yevsk, Novokuznetsk, Leninogorsk
28 August 1957 4058 Jones Lahore B A-2 Dushanbe, Tashkent, Tyuratam, Kazalinsk, Aral Sea
10 September 1957 4059 Hall Adana B A-2 Krasnovodsk, Gur'yev, Astrakhan', Tbilisi
16 September 1957 6008 Baker Eielson C A-2 Kamchatka Peninsula, Milkovo
13 October 1957 2040 Stockman Giebelstadt A A-2 Norway, Finland, Murmansk, Kandalaksha
1 March 1958 6011 Crull Atsugi C A-2 Dal'nerechensk, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, Belagorsk, Komsomolsk, Sovetskaya Gavan'
9 July 1959 4125 Knutson Peshawar B B Tyuratam for suspected Sputnik launch
6 December 1959 8005 Robinsona Peshawar B B Kuybyshev, Kapustin Yar, Caucasus
5 February 1960 8009 MacArthura Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kazan
9 April 1960 4155 Erickson Peshawar B B Lake Balkhash, Semipalatinsk, Kyzylespe, Dzhezhkazgan, Tyuratam
1 May 1960 4154 Powers Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk; downed by SAM
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