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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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## Secret NOFORN Index 386 Tyuratam, Soviet Union 135,137-138,160,163-165,167-168, 171-172,176 ## U 66 U-2 accomplishments 316 assembly 45, 47, 66, 75, 164, 280, 284, 291 bailout experiments 64 bases 93 bicycle-type landing gear 47 blue-black color 149 brakes 69 canopy 80, 149, 177 cockpit 11, 63-64, 79, 125, 283, 292, 296 cost 34, 124, 149, 250-252, 263, 269, 273, 280, 285-286, 309, 322, 341-342 cover story 60, 85, 89-90, 94, 99, 132, 156, 178-180, 182, 207-208, 216, 224, 295 coverage 316 deadstick landing 79 deployment 2, 74, 76, 78, 88-89, 93-94, 134, 161, 165, 167, 247, 250, 255-257, 297, 301-302, 304, 307, 313, 317, 332 design 47 destruction device 177 detachable pogos 47 ejection seat 64, 177, 302 emergency landing 78, 188, 222, 313 film exploitation 115 flameout 71, 78-79, 131, 198, 229 flight plans 82, 177 flights approval process 187-188, 226, 301 foreign pilots 73-74, 321 fuel 5, 23, 47, 61-62, 68, 76, 133, 161, 175, 199, 218-219, 231, 235, 241, 247-248, 271, 274, 277-278, 283-284, 286, 288, 302, 313, 340 fuel consumption 68, 219 fuel gauge 68, 219, 302 fuselage 10, 24, 47, 130, 248, 251, 270, 277, 286 inspection procedures 297 landing gear 10-12, 15, 47-48, 69, 89, 248 low-speed stall 76 maiden flight 66, 288 mission 1104 114 mission 1105 114 mission 1314 117 mission 2003 100 mission 2009 101 mission 2010 101 mission 2013 104-105 mission 2014 105 mission 2020 106 mission 2021 106
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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.