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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.
“US Navy”15 pages
SR-71 295,302,308-311,321 SS-4 (SHYSTER) MRBM 206 SS-6 ICBM 160 165 171 172 stainless steel 277,280 Stassen, Harold 330 State Department 81, 95, 101, 146, 154, 163, 179, 186, 196-197, 212, 224-225, 229, 243, 249 "stealth" research 313 stereo camera 281,252 stereoscopic lenses 250 Steuart Building 83,111,114 STEVER 260,333 Stockman, Hervey 65.104-105 STPOLLY 222, 224, 240 Strategic Air Command (SAC) 11, 14, 17, 20, 26, 42, 60, 74-76, 78, 89, 93, 95, 198, 201, 207-210, 299, 230 meteorologists 42 strategic bombing "strategic hamlet" 230 strategic bombing 49 strategic intelligence 82,115,152,302,304,313,315 319,322 strategic reconnaissance 9,122,230,295,297,299,313, 320,322,329 Strauss, Lewis 56 Strong, Philip G. 14-17, 21-22, 24-25, 29-30, 333 subsonic 8,14,260,263 Index Suez Canal 112-114, 117, 120, 256 Suez Canal, Israeli-British-French attack on 116 Suez Canal Company 112-113 Suez Crisis 152 suicide pill 65 Sukarno, Achmed 212, 215 Sulawesi (Celebes) 212 Sullivan, Dennis 307 Sumatra 212 SUN SPOT 171 Super Snooper 132 supersonic designs 260 supersonic interceptor 285 supersonic technology 292-293 Support, Directorate of 40,83 surface-to-air missile (SA-2) sites 201 surface-to-air missiles 257,299,301,303,339 surface-to-surface missiles 205-206,209,304,306 Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union 172,176-179,185 Symington, Stuart 99,161 synthetic lubricants synthetic lubricants 279 Syria 114,120,133,153 Syrian radars 343 System-I 335 Secret
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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.