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 Follow-On Group (FOG) 77 Ford Foundation 15 Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 192, 226, 292, 302, 330 forest fire detectors 238 Formosa 305 (See also Taiwan) Fort Worth, Texas 50 40 Committee 188, 257 forward processing center 212 Foster, John 343 Franco-Prussian War 1 Frankfurt, Germany 2 Free Europe Committee 88 French atomic test area 250 French Indochina 222 ## Secret NOFORN French nuclear developments 249 French Polynesia 249 Frogman Incident 94 Fujisawa, Japan 218 Fukien Province 226, 229 ## G G-forces 79 G2A aircraft 263 Galbraith, John Kenneth 231-232 Gardner, Trevor N. 11, 13-15, 26-27, 32, 36, 40, 66, 81, 99, 327, 329, 331 Gates, Thomas 164 Gaza Strip 114 Geary, Leo P. 61, 66, 71, 73-74, 78, 152, 186, 196, 288, 329 General Dynamics 312 General Electric J73/GE-3 11 General Tire and Rubber Company 329 GENETRIX 84-85, 87-88 Geneva, Switzerland 96, 147, 159 Geneva Conference on Surprise Attac 159 Geneva summit conference 96 geological survey 254-255 German Luftwaffe 22 German scientists 2 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 120 Gibbs, Jack A. 61, 259-260 Giebelstadt Airbase, West Germany 95, 124, 140 Gilpatric, Roswell 207-208 Glennan, Keith 182 gliders 11 Glienecke Bridge 183 Goddard, George 330
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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.