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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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meteorologists 42, 87 MI-6 93, 154 Michigan, University of, School of 329 microwave reconnaissance 19 Middle East overflights 114, 116 MiG aircraft 336 MiG-15 108, 148 MiG-17 5, 108, 148 MiG-19 148 MiG-21 148, 237, 244 Military Adviser to the President 188 Military Air Transport Service 72 MILL TOWN 216 Miller, Stewart E. 18, 21, 39-40, 55-56, 331 "million-dollar" photography 111 miniaturization 339 mirrors 54-55 "missile gap" 157, 159, 317 missiles 2, 22, 81, 98-99, 137, 139, 149, 160-161, 165, 167, 171, 201, 205-206, 209, 226, 239, 243, 257, 285, 299, 301, 303-304, 306-307, 315, 317-318, 336, 339 Mississippi River 78, 310 MKNAOMI 66 Monthly Activities Book 189 ## Secret NOFORN Index moon 163 Morotai 214 Moscow, Soviet Union 3, 20, 85, 94, 101, 105-106, 109, 124, 143, 145, 160, 167, 177, 179, 318 MUDLARK 178 multiengine aircraft 12,24-25 multiple sensors 22 Mururoa Atoll 250 Myasishchev-4 (see Bison bomber) ## N Nagy, Imre 123 Nanking, China 228 Narcotics, Bureau of 254-255 Nasser, Gamal Abdel 112, 153 National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics 89, 94 National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) 178-179, 254 National Air & Space Museum 64 National Intelligence Estimates 19, 235 national intelligence objectives 81 National Security Agency 81, 114, 134, 185, 327 National Security Bureau 224 National Security Council 27, 294, 161, 167, 187-188, 191, 197, 212
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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.