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.
“Cooper”11 pages
borax 121 Boston, Massachusetts 13,18,22,24,27,52,56 110,260 Boston camera 13 Boston University 22,24,52 Bowles, Chester 225 Brahmaputra Valley 231 bridges 82 Briglia, Frank 339 Briggs School 42 British and French fleets 116 British Guiana-Venezuela border 211 British overflight of the Soviet Union 23-24,164 British Parliament 94,232 British radar network 94 Brugioni, Dino 135,137 Budapest, Hungary 123 Budget, Bureau of the 267,308-310 Index Budget, Director of the 40 Buffalo, New York 9,63 Bulganin. Nikolai 94,120 Bulgaria 101,124-125,140 Bundy, McGeorge 188,201,205,209,236,293 BUORL 22 Burbank, California 45 Secret NOFORN Burke, William 168,170,174 Byelorussia 104,106 ## C C model camera 54 C-124 cargo planes 66, 135, 181, 219 Cabell, Charles P. 30, 36, 43, 88, 101, 122-123, 127, 139, 183, 223, 295, 327, 329 Cairo, Egypt 117, 119 Calcutta, India 232 California 9, 13, 24, 26, 36, 45, 50, 54, 56, 133, 182, 198, 200, 208, 221, 247, 251-252, 254-256, 295, 311, 340 California Institute of Technology 26 Cambodia 216, 230, 243 camera lenses 93 camera technicians 78 camera-carrying balloons 14, 18, 23, 84, 145 cameras 1, 3-4, 12-13, 21-22, 31, 44, 49-51, 53-55, 60, 77, 87, 196, 244, 281-282, 310, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332, 333 Canberra 5, 9, 23-24, 67, 109, 117, 162 Cannon, Clarence 88 Capp, Al 45 cardiovascular system 62
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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.