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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.
“United Press”12 pages
## Secret NOFORN Index Plans, Directorate of 73,81,157,197,211,287 Plesetsk, Soviet Union 176 Poland 1 polarizing filters 330 Polaroid Corporation 18,24,29 POLECAT 221 Polish Ambassador to the US 109 Polyarny Ural 172 polygraph examination 185 Pope, Allen L. 214-215 poppy fields 254 Port Said, Egypt 120 Portsmouth Harbor 94 potassium cyanide 66,125 powered glider 14,25,339 Powers, Francis Gary 88,117,124,174-178,181-187, 190-191,195,197,201,219,221, 224,252,316,322,332,336 Poznan, Poland 104 PR3 aircraft 5 Pratt, Perry W. 31 Pratt & Whitney 12,31,35,40,48,67,71,152,217 251,268,270,284-285,290 Pratt & Whitney J58 power plant 270 Pratt & Whitney J75-P13 jet engine 152 Pratt & Whitney J75/19W engines 284 Pratt and Whitney J57 12 President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities 37,127,167,170,190,192,328, 330 President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 37 President's Intelligence Checklist 201 President's Science Advisory Committee 37 pressure suits 64, 247 pressurized "spacesuit" 63 Prettyman, E. Barrett 184-185 Prettyman Board 185 Princeton University 29 processing and interpretation centers 115 Project Director 61,82,329 Project Officer, AFCIG-5 61 Project Staff 40-43,56,72-73,82,89, 170,299 Project Three 27, 29-34, 327 propaganda 88,160,162,183,186,317 Pryor, Frederick 183 psychological warfare 186,222 Pueblo 242,307,320 Puerto Rico 207,211 Pulse-Position Indicator display 267 Purcell, Edward M. 18,29,110-111,129,260,263. 271,274,332 Putt, Donald L. 11, 35-36, 40 PVO [Soviet Air Defense] 174
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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.