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 368 Incirlik Airbase, Turkey 113, 181 India 148, 231-232, 237, 247, 319 Indian Parliament 232 Indian Springs, Nevada 274, 130, 132 Indonesia 211-212, 214, 319 Indonesian Air Force 212 inertial guidance systems 313 inflatable aircraft 262 infrared camera 282 infrared jammer 336 infrared scanner 238-239 inland waterways 82 instant-film camera 330 intelligence, collection of 16, 31-32, 80-81, 142, 146, 153, 162, 170, 182, 189, 211, 245, 253, 256, 282, 300, 303, 310, 315, 319, 322, 333, 336, 339 Intelligence and Research, Bureau of 209 intelligence community 2, 20, 33, 81, 138, 153, 160, 164-165, 170-171, 190, 196, 232-233, 254, 298, 303-304, 322, 339 Intelligence Coordination, Office of 81 intelligence requirements 25-26, 80-82, 114, 122, 154, 188-190, 226, 230, 233, 250, 253, 300, 332 Intelligence Requirements Officer 81 Intelligence Star 186 Intelligence Systems Panel (ISP) 21-22, 24-26, 30-32, 35, 327 intercept 87, 108, 124, 126-127, 142, 148, 162, 168, 170, 174, 176-177, 259 285, 317, 335 interceptor aircraft 93, 109, 124, 148, 176 intercontinental ballistic missile 137, 159 Interior, Department of the 254 international date line 134 International Geophysical Year 85 international law 110 interrogation 2-3, 183, 241 intruder 109 "invisible" dirigible 18 ion cloud 300 ionosphere 175 Iran 124, 133, 189 Iraq 133, 153 Iron Curtain 1, 17, 93, 95, 111, 126, 146 ISINGLASS 312 Isle of Pines 205 Itek Corporation 331,250 IX spaceflights 254
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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.