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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 358 Baltic Sea 3, 303 Baltic states 104 Baltimore; Maryland 6, 9 Barents Sea 140,142,172 barrel rolls 76 Batlin, Alex 66 Bay of Bengal 231 Bay of Pigs 191,197-199,205 Baykonur, Soviet Union 137 Beacon Hill 17-19,21,24,31-32,331-332 BEACON HILL Report 17,19,21,24 BEACON HILL Study Group BEACON HI 18,21 Beechcraft 56,187 Beerli, Stanley W. 192, 196 Beijing, China (see Peiping, China) 228-229 Bell Aircraft Corporation 9 Bell Laboratories 18 Bell Telephone Laboratories 29 "bends" 64 Bennington, Herbert 309 Benton, William 299 Berezovskiy, Soviet Union 138 Berlin, Germany 16,20,127,147,162,183,196 Berlin crisis 147,196 BGMARQUE 222 bhangmeter 240 BIRDWATCHER 235 Bison bomber 20-21,27,31,98,105,111 Bissell, Richard M., Jr. 15-16, 30, 39-41, 43-44, 56, 59, 61, 66, 69-70, 72, 74, 78, 81-82, 89, 93, 95, 100-101, 104-106, 109-110, 121-122, 124, 127-128, 135, 139, 148, 154-157, 162, 168, 170, 172, 174, 178-179, 187, 191-192, 196, 214, 216, 224, 259-260, 262-263, 267, 277-278, 283, 285, 286-287, 289, 295, 327, 328-329, 330-331 Bissell's Narrow-Gauge Airline 72 "black books" 188 "black" contracts 285 BLACK KNIGHT 126,134 Black Sea 85,126,133,144,153 BLACK SHIELD 301 Blip/Scan Ratio 267-268 BLUE BOOK 72-73 Board of Inquiry 184 Boeing RB-47 3 Boeing KC-135 71 bomb damage 49 bomber 2-3, 5, 20-23, 26, 31, 50, 66, 98, 105, 109, 111, 140, 167, 214, 262-263, 269, 279, 293, 316-317 Bomber Gap 31,111,316
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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.