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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.
“Headquarters”25 pages
television reconnaissance package 343 Tennessee 78, 238 test ban 147 Tet offensive 243 Texas Instruments Corporation 238, 282 Third World 211 three-camera trimetrogon unit 52 three-dimensional movies 29 30001 camera 333 303 Committee 243, 257, 301-302, 304, 307 Thule, Greenland 172 Tibet 157, 216, 219, 232 Time 99 TIME STEP 172, 174 Titan ICBM 160 titanium alloy 271 Titanium Metals Corporation 280 TOKEN 87 Tomsk, Soviet Union 138 TOPPER 219 TOUCHDOWN 163 tracker camera 385 Index ## Secret NOFORN tracking 3, 7, 52-53, 87, 97, 106, 128-129, 144, 170, 176, 178, 234, 259, 263, 267-268, 303, 307, 343 tracking radars 7, 267 Trans-Siberian Railroad 144 transport aircraft 25, 45, 66 traveling-wave tube (TWT) 236 trimetrogon K-17 mapping-camera system 49 Tripartite Declaration, 1950 117 tropopause 152 Truman administration 17 TRW Corporation 335 Tuamotu Archipelago 249 "Tuesday lunch" 305 Tukey, John W. 29 turbojet engine 8, 11, 262, 268, 343 Tuslog Detachment 10-10 113 Twining, Nathan 60-61, 86, 88, 96, 99, 101, 127, 134, 139, 161, 165 Type-I camera 281, 304, 310 Type-II camera 281 Type-IV camera 282 Typhoon Winnie 216
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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.