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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.
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## Secret NOFORN Index 372 Luna 2 rocket 163 Lundahl, Arthur C. 82, 114-115, 117, 119, 121, 135, 142, 154, 191, 209, 241, 331 ## M M Building 83 M-12 aircraft 291 M-195 aircraft 9 MacArthur, John 167 Macdonald, Duncan E. 22, 154-155 Macmillan, Harold 155-156, 164, 167, 187 Malaya Sazanka, Soviet Union 144 Malinovsky, Rodion 160 Manchuria 229, 233, 237 Mandrake 148 Manhattan Project 329 Manila, Philippines 311 manned space program 62 March AFB, California 75 Mark-30 335 Marquardt ramjets 268 Marr, William H. 72 Mars 79 Marshall Plan 15,327 Martin, Glenn L., Aircraft Corporation 5, 8-9, 24, 270 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 4, 15, 18, 27, 30, 110, 129-130, 327, 330, 332-333 Matomic Building 42, 104 MATS 72 Matsu Islands 229 May Day 20, 176, 191, 195 MC-2 and MC-3 partial-pressure suits 64 McConaughy, Walter P. 257 McCone, John A. 184-186, 192, 195, 197, 201, 206-207, 209, 232-234, 236-238, 240, 292-294, 296, 298, 300, 327, 331 McCoy, Frederick 95 McCullough Corporation 339 McDonnell Aircraft 312 McElroy, Neil 146, 161-162 McFadden, William 54 McMahon, John N. 186 McNamara, Robert 229, 234, 236, 238, 253, 285, 292-293, 298, 300-301 mechanical fuel totalizer/counters 68 Mediterranean Sea 114, 116, 121, 140, 142, 153 medium-range ballistic missiles 201, 206 Melpar, Incorporated 342 Menderes, Adnan 112, 181 mercenary pilots 214 metal fatigue metal fatigue 242
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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.