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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Index Land, Edwin H. (Din) 18, 21, 25, 29-34, 36, 80-81, 89, 99 100, 110, 191-192, 260, 262-263, 272 292, 307, 330, 332-333 Land Panel 37 Langley, Virginia 43, 192, 306, Langley AFB, Virginia 23 Laos 216, 221, 231, 233 Las Vegas, Nevada 284 Latham, Allen, Jr. 29 Latvia 303 Laughlin AFB, Texas 198, 200 Ledford, Jack C. 207, 288, 297 Leghorn, Richard S. 4-8, 18, 23, 110, 330 LeMay, Curtis E. 11-12, 14, 60 "Lemon-Drop Kid" 124 Lend-Lease 7 Leningrad, Soviet Union 104-106, 109, 142, 298, 303 lens 1, 18, 21-22, 30, 49-55, 93, 108, 250, 247, 253, 281-282, 321, 327 lens curvatures 52 lens designs 52, 55 LeVier, Tony 56, 68-71, 75 LF-1A fuel 62 Libya 121 ## Secret NOFORN lightweight film 32 LINCOLN 18 Lindsey Air Force Base, Wiesbaden, West 80 liquid-fueled missiles 161, 317 lithium deuteride 19 Lithuania 303 Little, Arthur D., Inc. 29 Little Quemoy 215 Lloyd, Selwyn 93 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation 9, 24, 329 Lockheed Day Fighter 14 Lockheed mechanics 66, 130, 225 London School of Economics 15 LONG GREEN 198 long-range bombers 20, 81, 98-99, 316 LONG SHAFT 245 Los Angeles, California 186, 254 Lovelace, W. Randolph, III 62, 74 Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research 74 low-radar-cross-section vehicle 344 low-level photography 209 low-vapor-pressure fuel 278 Luke AFB, Arizona 74
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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.