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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.
“United Press”12 pages
## A A-1 camera 50 A-2 aircraft 262-263 A-2 camera 53, 77, 100, 104-105, 108 A-3 aircraft 263 A-11 268, 294 A-12 271, 273-274, 277-278, 281, 283-286, 289-292, 294-297, 299, 302-305, 307-311, 329 Abel, Rudolf 183, 332 Ad Hoc Requirements Committee 81, 114, 188-189, 332 Adana, Turkey 113 Adkins, Charles N. 342 Administration (East) Building 42 advanced antiballistic-missile (ABM) 139 aerial cameras 13, 31, 49, 329 aerial lenses 327 aerial photography 3, 13, 33, 49, 96, 119 aerial tankers 313 aerodynamic lift 248, 277 aerodynamic structural tests 274 aerodynamicist 342 Aerospace Corporation 328 Afghanistan 126, 170, 176, 189 afterburner plume 271 ailerons 47, 69 Air Research and Development Command 5, 8 Air Staff for Intelligence 154 Air Weather Service 89, 94 air-cooled reactor 239 air-inlet system 291 air-to-air missiles 285, 336 air-traffic controllers 72-73, 289 Air/Maritime Division (AMD) 73 aircraft carrier 145, 247, 250 airfields 82, 95-96, 105, 117, 153, 216, 221, 226, 317 airframe 5, 8, 10, 24, 26, 48, 56, 71, 105, 132-133, 248, 259, 274, 279, 286, 289 airframe contractors 259 airspace 3-4, 19, 127, 134, 142, 144-147, 152-153, 182, 231, 239, 241, 303, 306, 318, 322 airspeed 68, 76, 199, 235, 295 Alaska 133-134,145,316
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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.