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.
“Kapustin Yar”10 pages
nuclear fireball 240 nuclear resonance 332 nuclear strike 292 nuclear testing moratorium 317 nuclear tests 133,147,240 nuclear weapons 2,19-20,99,147,226, 238,240,317 ## O OARFISH 44 O'Donnell, Emmett (Rosy) 74 oblique photography 135,189,244 Offshore Islands Crisis 215-216 OILSTONE 60-61 Old Executive Office Building 27 OLIVE HARVEST 257 Omaha, Nebraska 60 112A camera 250 112B camera 250, 252 "Open-Skies" 96 optical distortion 282 Optical Research Laboratory 21-22 optical systems 52 order-of-battle 82,134,322 "Oscar-Sierra" unit 234 over-the-horizon radar 241 Overhage, Carl F. P. 18, 21, 331 overhead photography 82, 87, 172, 237-238 overhead reconnaissance missions 188 Overstreet, Carl K. 100 OXCART 61, 73, 157, 191, 236, 238, 252-253, 259, 274, 277-313, 320-322, 327-333, 336, 339 oxygenation 62 ## P P-38 fighter 10,329 P-40 fighter 328 P-51 Mustang 214 P-80 fighter 10,45 P-80 Shooting Star 45 P2V7 222 P3A 222 Pacific Ocean 247 Padang, West Sumatra 212
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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.