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.
“RAF”18 pages
Index high-altitude balloon program 22 high-altitude photography 1, 55, 84 high-altitude photoreconnaissance 7 high-altitude reconnaissance 1, 4-5, 8-9, 13-14, 17, 19, 22-25, 33-34, 39, 49, 52, 55, 254, 262, 292, 312, 330 high-altitude weather plane 178 high-impact plastics 313 high-resolution cameras 4 high-resolution infrared scanner 238 high-speed buffet 76 high-speed reconnaissance aircraft 262-263, 270 HIGH WIRE 164 Hilsman, Roger 209 Hitchcock, Alfred 29 Hokkaido, Japan 4 Holcomb, William 285 Hollywood, California 29 Hong Kong 217 Hoover, Herbert, Jr. 123-124 horizontal stabilizers 47 Horner, Richard 70 Hornig, Donald F. 309 HOT SHOP 162 Houston, Lawrence R. 44 ## Secret NOFORN HR-333 camera 253 HRB-Singer Corporation 336 HTAUTOMAT 83, 115, 331 HTNAMABLE 110-111 human intelligence sources 2 Hungarian uprising 123 Hungary 101, 123 Hurricane Baseline Survey 254 Hycon Manufacturing Company 13, 50, 252 hydraulic fluid 279 hydraulic pump 279 hydrogen bomb 19-20, 242 hydrogen weapons 164 hydrogen-powered aircraft 263 hydrologists 254 ## I IBM CPC (card-programmed calculator) 52 IDEALIST 182, 210, 234, 303 IDEALIST U-2 303 Igarka, Soviet Union 3 ileitis 96 imagery 116, 179, 252-253, 255-256, 282, 298, 303, 310 impeller 291 "in-and-out" operations 205 in-flight refueling 198-200, 237, 302
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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.