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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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security 2,27,40-41,43,55,59-60,72,81, 94,112,125,127,140,161,167, 185,187-188,191,197,201,209, 212,218,221-222,224,236,256, 273,283-284,294,318,327 Security, Office of 59,112,222 Semipalatinsk, Soviet Union 128,138-139,147,168 SENSINT--Sensitive Intelligence 3 sensors 11,22,241,292,310 Seventh Air Division 89 Severodvinsk, Soviet Union 172, 176 Shanghai, China 222,228,242 sheep-dipping 74 Index Shell Oil Company 62,328 shellfish toxin 125 Shelton, William shock wave 290-291 short-range reconnaissance vehicle 342 show trial 183 Shuangchengzi, China 226, 228, 235 shutter assemblies 53 Siberia 3 Sichuan, China 230 Sieker, Robert 131 Sierra snowfield 254 SIGINT Committee 332 Secret NOFORN Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) 222 "single-pass" mission 306 Sino-Indian border 231-233,319 Sino-Soviet border 336 "Skonk Works" 45 Skunk Works 45,71,132,251,262,273-274 SKYLARK 299 Smithsonian Institution 55 "snap-up" 148 Snark missiles 22 Snider, Sammy V. C. 138 snowmelt 254 SOFT TOUCH 135,139,143 software algorithms 52 solar cells 240 solid-fueled missiles 161,317 sound barrier 289 SOUTH GATE 216 South Vietnam 230-231,243,301,305 Southeast Asia 190,198,216,221,301,310 Sovetskaya Gavan', Soviet Union 144 Soviet Bloc 1-2,4,6,16-20,87,93,112,123 147,152,159,195,197,211,330 Soviet Communist Party Congress 160 Soviet Far East 134,144
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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.