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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.
“The Pentagon”10 pages
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## J J-3 (Operations) 189 J75 power plant 152 jamming devices 300 Jammu and Kashmir 231 Japanese airspace jet stream 94, 145 jet-propelled glider 11, 25 Johnson, Clarence L. (Kelly) 10-12, 13-14, 17, 24-26, 29-31, 34-36, 43-48, 50, 54, 56-57, 59, 64, 66-70, 76, 108, 130, 132, 149, 179, 185, 196, 247-248, 251, 262-263, 268, 271, 274, 277-279, 281, 284, 289, 293-297, 320, 329 Johnson, Lyndon B. 195, 236-237, 243, 293-295, 302, 304-305, 310-311, 332 Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) 122, 124, 126, 161, 187-190, 223, 234, 302 Joint Intelligence Committee 154 Joint Priorities Committee 154 Joint Reconnaissance Center (JRC) 189 Jones, Edwin K. ## K K-21 framing cameras 49 K-38 camera 50-51, 53 Kadena Airbase, Okinawa, Japan 301 Kaliningrad missile plant 105 Kamchatka Peninsula 128, 134, 197 Kandalaksha, Soviet Union 176 Kapustin Yar, Soviet Union 16, 23-24, 109, 139, 143, 164 Kara Sea 142 Kazakh language 135 Kazakhstan 135 Kazan', Soviet Union 167 KC-135 tankers 71, 199 KEDLOCK 285 "Kelly's Angel" 66 KEMPSTER 300 Kennedy, John F. 186, 191-192, 195-196, 198, 207-208, 210, 225, 229, 232, 235, 292-293, 297-298, 330 Kennedy, Joseph W. 29 Kennedy, Robert 215 Kennedy administration 191, 195, 225 kerosene fuel 62
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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.