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.
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Secret NOFORN Index 384 System-II 335 System-III 335-336 System-IV 335 System-V 126, 215, 335 System-VI 335, 175 System-VII 335-336 System-VIII 335 System-IX 335 System-IXB device 175 System-X 256, 336 System-XII units 234 System-XIII 234, 236-237, 239 System-XVI 336 System-XVII 336 System-XX 336 System-XXI 336 System-XXII 336 System-XXIV 256 ## T Taber, John 88 tactical intelligence 304 tactical reconnaissance 9, 25, 115, 153 TAGBOARD 291 Tahiti 250 tailless subsonic aircraft 263 Taiwan 215-216, 222, 224-225, 229, 233, 236-237, 239, 241-243, 246, 251 Taiwan Strait 229 Ta Khli, AFB, Thailand 230 Talbott, Harold E. 13-14, 36 TALL KING 294 Tallinn, Estonia 303 Tashkent, Soviet Union 176 TASS 137 Tatar Strait 144 Taylor, Maxwell 188 TCP 27 Technical Services Division (TSD) 66, 125 Technicolor 331 Technological Capabilities Panel 26-27, 29-30, 35, 62, 80, 327- 329, 332 Technology, Deputy for 192
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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.