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 Bibliography Interview with Brig. Gen. Jack C. Ledford, USAF (Ret.), by Gregory W. Pedlow, Washington, DC, 20 February 1987 (Secret). Interview with Richard S. Leghorn by Donald E. Welzenbach, Washington, DC, 19 August 1985 (Secret). Interview with Arthur S. Lundahl and Dino Brugioni by Donald E. Welzenbach, Washington, DC, 14 December 1983 (Top Secret Codeword) . Interview with Garrison Norton by Donald E. Welzenbach, Washington, DC, 23 May 1983 (Secret). Interview with John Parangosky by Donald E. Welzenbach, 6 March 1986 (Secret). Interview with James Q. Reber by Donald E. Welzenbach and Gregory W. Pedlow, Washington, DC, 21 May 1987 (Secret). Interview with Carmine Vito by Donald E. Welzenbach, Washington DC, 7 May 1986 (Secret). Interview with John S. Warner, Office of the General Counsel, by Donald E. Welzenbach, Washington, DC, 5 August 1983 (Top Secret Codeword).
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.