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.
“Sputnik 2”5 pages
## Secret NOFORN Russell, Richard B. 88 ## S S-band radar 87 sailplane 10-11, 24-26, 47 Sakhalin Island 201 Saltonstall, Leverett 88 SAM site 177, 205, 306 San Cristobal, Cuba 206-207, 209 San Diego, California 247, 343 Santa Barbara Channel 254 Santa Clara Airfield, Cuba 201 Saratov Engels Airfield, Soviet Union 164 Saryshagan, Soviet Union 139, 168, 232, 336 satellite imagery 298, 255 satellite navigation systems 341 satellite photography 87, 195-197, 226, 233, 237, 241 satellites 22, 100, 104, 159, 162, 211, 299, 303, 312, 320, 322, 328 Saville, Gordon P. 17-18 Schalk, Louis 288-289 Schlesinger, James R. 257, 333 Schoech, William A. 285 Schriever, Bernard A. 7, 11 Schultze, Charles L. 309 Science and Technology, Directorate of 193, 287, 328 Science and Technology, Special Assistant to the President for 37 Scientific Advisory Board 17, 23 Scientific Advisory Committee 17, 89, 332 Scientific Engineering Institute (SEI) 110-111, 129, 260, 267, 274, 331-332 Scientific Intelligence (OSI), Office of 14, 21, 39, 81, 97, 331, 333 SCOPE COTTON 310 SCOPE CRANE 242 SCOPE LOGIC 303 SCOPE SAINT 255 SCOPE SAINT-I 255 SCOPE SAINT-II 255 SCOPE SHIELD 246-247 Scott, Roderick M. 51, 53, 281, 333 Scoville, Herbert 207, 287, 289, 333 SCR-270 radar 7 Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Airport, Pennsylvania 222 Sea of Japan 3 Seaberg, John 8-9, 12, 35-36, 333 SEAFOAM 211 sealant 286, 288 secrecy agreements 295
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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.