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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 376 ## Pakistan Paksane, Laos 231 Palmdale, California 311 panoramic-type framing camera 53 Paradise Ranch 57,66 PARAMOUNT Committee 114,116,120 Parangosky, John 274,288,296,309,331 "parasite" aircraft 263 Paris Summit 172,181-182 Pasadena, California 13,50,252 Pathet Lao 221 PB-4Y aircraft 222 Pearl Harbor 322 Pearson, Drew 299 Peenemunde rocket project 2 Peiping, China 228-229 Pellegrini, Joseph J. 6 Pennsylvania State Police 222 Pentagon 5,7,9,11,13-14,39,78-79,238 People's Liberation Army (PLA) 215 People's Republic of China (PRC) 85,135,201,215,222,225-226, 228-247,253,282,301,319,339,341 (See also China) radars 215 troop movements 215 nuclear plants 238 nuclear weapons establishment 226 Shuangchengzi missile-test range 235 periscope 56,76 Perkin, Richard S. 18, 31, 50-52, 281-282, 311, 332-333 Perkin-Elmer (P-E) Company 18,31,50,281 Perkin-Elmer tracking camera 52 Perkins, Courtland D. 260 Personnel (USAF), Deputy Chief of Staff for 74 Peshawar, Pakistan 135,163-164,167-168,172,174-176 Photo-Intelligence Division (PID) 82,100,135 photographic chemicals 121 Photographic Evaluation of Information on Cuba 200 photographic resolution 281 photointerpreters 83,108,111,114-116,120-121,135 138,153,172,191,198,209,211 216,221,236,303,307 photomapping 1,232 photoreconnaissance 1, 4-5, 7, 22 photosatellite 270,313,327,330,157 PID's Special Projects Branch 115 "pioneer" photography 87 pitot-static tube 295 Pittsburgh-Corning Glass Company 55 Plans, Deputy Director for 157,191-192,327,333
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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.