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.
“Headquarters”25 pages
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Secret NOFORN Index 362 ## D D-21 aircraft 291 Dalai Lama 216 Dallas, Texas 293 Damage Assessment Team 183 David Clark Company 62 Davis, Saville 18 Dayton, Ohio 4, 8 DC-6 aircraft 341 deep penetration overflights 316, 123 Defector Reception Center (DRC) 2 defectors 2 Defense, Department of 33, 61, 122, 145, 154, 161, 234, 236-237, 239, 267, 292-293, 301-302, 304, 310, 317 Defense, Deputy Secretary of 81, 127, 144, 161, 188, 207, 300, 309 Defense, Secretary of 161, 298 Defense Mobilization, Office of 17, 26 Science Advisory Committee 37 Del Rio, Texas 256, 198 Delta-II camera 250 denied territory 174, 188, 190 Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDC) 30, 36, 43, 327, 329, 88, 101, 122-123, 127, 139, 186-187, 201, 208-209, 223 Detachment A 94-95, 100-101, 106, 114, 116, 124-125 139-140, 142-143, 181, 316 Detachment B 113, 116, 120-121, 124-126, 133, 135, 139, 142-143, 152-153, 155-157, 164, 167, 181-182, 187, 316 Detachment C 133-134, 139, 143-144, 152, 157, 182, 211-212, 214-220, 224, 316 Detachment G 133, 181-182, 198-199, 211, 221-222, 230-233, 243, 248, 250-251, 254-257 Detachment H 225-226, 228-230, 232-237, 239-241, 243-246, 250-251, 255 Development, Deputy Chief of Staff for 7, 11, 17, 35 Development Planning, Office of 12 Development Projects Division (DPD) 157, 191 Development Projects Staff 40, 55-56, 132, 157, 191, 212, 331 Dirty-Birds 128, 130, 135 Donovan, Allen F. 18, 21, 24-26, 29-31, 35, 260, 328 Donovan, James 183 Doolittle, James H. 61, 167, 328 Douglas Aircraft 339 DRAGON 2 DRAGON LADY 77 drivers 59 drone 291, 343 Dryden, Hugh 89, 182 DuBridge, Lee 26-27
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.