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.
“US Navy”15 pages
## Secret NOFORN 370 Khimki rocket-engine plant 105 Khrushchev, Nikita 94, 96, 100-101, 147, 160, 163-164, 168, 179-180, 299 Kiangsi Province 235 Kiangsu Province 229 KICK OFF 198 Kickapoo Joy Juice 45 Kiefer, Eugene P. 7, 9, 11, 260, 330 Killian, James R. 27, 29-30, 33-34, 89, 100, 191-192, 263, 292, 330 KINGFISH 270, 273 Kirkpatrick, Lyman B. 190 Kirov, Soviet Union 172, 176 Kirtland AFB 79 Kissinger, Henry 256 Kistiakowsky, George 171 Klein, Burton 11 Klyuchi, Soviet Union 134, 143 KNIFE EDGE 167 Knowles, Harold F. 344 Kohler, Foy D. 112 Koko Nor 233 Kola Peninsula 182 Kollman Instrument Company 59 Koon, Ralph E. 79 Korea, demilitarized zone (DMZ) 305 (See also North Korea) Kotlas, Soviet Union 172 Krag, Jens Otto 299 Kratt, Jacob 65, 79, 116 Kremlin 123 Kunming, China 226 Kuybyshev, Soviet Union 164 KWCORK 113 KWEXTRA-00 59 KWGLITTER-00 59 Kyshtym, Soviet Union 176 ## L L'il Abner 47 L-pills 66,125 Lakenheath AFB, England 93
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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.