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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Index 10-17, 24-27, 29-37, 66, 327-331, 331 CL-400 aircraft 263 clandestine operations 16, 321 Clandestine Services 192 Clark Airfield, Philippines 212 Clifford, Clark 311 "coffin corner" 76 Cold War 17 collection requirements 80-81, 189, 253, 300 Columbia Broadcasting System 18 combat aircraft 6, 26, 45 Combined Shipping Adjustment Board 15 Commerce, Department of 254 commercial airliners 72 communications intelligence (COMINT) 189, 311, 335-336 Communications Satellite Corporation 328 COMPASS TRIP 254 competitive bidding 44 compressor vanes 291 computer-controlled radar 294 computers 52 Congress, United States 44, 88, 98, 111, 159-160, 170, 293, 315, 317-318 constant-velocity film transport 281 Constellation airliner 10, 329 Contingency Reserve Fund 40, 44 contractors 42, 72, 259, 288 contrails 152 Convair 262-263, 267-271, 273, 284, 312 Convair F-106 284 convective clouds 94 Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory 18, 24-25, 328 Corning Glass Works 282 cosmic-ray effects 94 cover officer 89 covert activities Covert Action Staff (CAS) 214 Crabb, Lionel 94 Crick, Alan 154 Crick Committee 154 Crimean Peninsula 108 Cuba 188, 197-201, 205-211, 299-300, 302, 310, 327, 339 Cuban air and ground order of battle 198 Cuban Missile Crisis 55, 199, 209-210, 299, 327 Cubi Point Naval Air Station, Philippines 212, 216, 221 Culbertson, Allman T. 66 Cunningham, James A., Jr. 40, 66, 69, 72, 78-79, 125, 247, 288-289, 328-329 Current Intelligence, Office of 81
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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.