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 Index 360 Carey, Howard 80,140 80, 140 Carter, John H. (Jack) 9-10 Carter, Marshall S. 186, 201, 205, 208-209, 299, 327 Caspian Sea 126 catheterized 64 cathode-ray tube 267 Caucasus Mountains 179 celestial "fixes" 76 Central Asia 135 Central Asian republics 176 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 29, 32, 59 Air Force competition 308 air operations 157, 191 General Counsel 44 Inspector General 190 proprietary 260, 129 proprietary firm 110, 129, 222, 260 U-2 program 257, 181 centrifugal force 177 CHALICE 155, 170, 182 Chamoun. Camille 152 Chance Vought Corporation 8 Charbatia, India 232-233,237,239 Charyk, Joseph V. 260,327-328 Chekiang Province 235 Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union 176 Cherbonneaux, James 127,138,214 Chinese Communist nuclear tests 240 Chinese mainland 319,215,222,226 Chinese nuclear reactors 238 Chinese nuclear test 237 Christ, David L. 339 Christian Science Monitor 18 Civil Air Transport 214,222 civilian supersonic transport (SST) 293
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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.