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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 ## Index 356 Albania 140, 157 Albuquerque, New Mexico 74, 78-79 Allen, Edward L. 21 Almaza Airbase, Egypt 119 altimeters 59-60 altitude 1, 4-6, 7, 8-11, 12, 13-19, 22-26, 33-35, 39, 46-47, 49, 52, 54-55, 59, 61-64, 71-72, 74, 76, 79-80, 84, 87, 89, 93-94, 97, 101, 108, 125, 132, 142, 145, 148-149, 152, 156-157, 168, 175-179, 185, 207, 217-219, 229, 235, 240-241, 246-247, 251, 254, 259-260, 262, 263, 267, 268, 273, 277, 278-279, 284, 286, 288, 292, 294, 296-297, 304, 312-313, 320, 330, 339, 340, 343 aluminum 271 Ambon Island 214 American Civil War 1 Amory, Robert 114 Anderson, Rudolph 210 Andoya, Norway 172 "Angel", 45, 50, 66, 262 Anglo-French bombing campaign 117 Anglo-Soviet relations 94 antiaircraft missile 168 antiaircraft weapons 93, 148 antiballistic missile system 298, 303 antiradar studies 267, 274 Apollo VII 254 Applied Physics Division 339 AQUATONE 40-43, 59, 62, 66, 74, 77, 82, 88, 93, 96, 100, 108, 113, 115, 122, 134, 155 AQUILINE 304, 339-343 Arabs 256 Aral Sea 135 Arbenz, Jacobo 16 "Archangel-1" 262 "Archangel-2" 262 Area 51, 56, 72, 74-75, 77-78, 130-131, 133, 274, 283-284, 286, 291, 303, 305 Arizona 80 Arkansas 78 arms limitation negotiations 147 arms race 318 Army Air Corps 21, 56 Army Air Force 50, 328, 330 article 121 286, 288 article 126 296 article 133 296 article 341 66, 71, 131-132
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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.