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.
“Sputnik 2”5 pages
mission 2023 108 mission 2029 124 mission 3086 200 mission 3088 200 mission 3089 201 mission 3091 205 mission 3093 205 mission 3095 205 mission 3098 206 mission 3100 206 mission 4016 124 mission 4018 124 mission 4019 126 mission 4030 133 mission 4154 175 mission 4155 168 mission 6011 144 mission length 199 mission plotting 60 mission programmers 78 missions 59, 75, 82, 87, 106, 114 129, 154, 164, 167, 179 210, 224, 237, 245, 254 322, 336 Nationalist Chinese cre 222 oleostrut 47, 69 operational altitude 77 outrigger wheels 79 overflights 6, 32, 62, 74, 76-77, 84-86, 88-89, 94-98, 100-101, 104-106, 108-111, 114, 116, 122-128, 135, 138-140, 142-143, 146, 148, 152, 154-157, 159, 161-165, 167-168, 170, 172, 180-181, 195-198, 200-201, 205-206, 208, 210-211, 219, 222-226, 228-237, 239-240, 242-244, 249, 253, 257, 259, 294, 297-301, 310, 315-317, 318-320, 322 paint penalty 149 payload 262, 8, 11, 50, 54, 340, 87, 145, 152 peripheral missions 189, 206, 244, 246 phaseout 257, 310 pilot fatigue 199 pilot hypoxia 80 pilot life-support system 64 pilot selection 60, 283 pilot-survival gear 62 pilot training program 75 pilot urination 64 pilots 42, 299, 47, 56, 59-60,62-66, 68-69, 71-77, 79-80, 94, 109, 113-114, 116, 125, 127, 132-135, 140, 148-149, 153- 156, 164, 175-176, 179, 181-183, 186-187 198-199, 207-212, 214, 221, 223-226, 229-230, 233-236, 238-240, 243, 246-248, 250-253, 256, 283, 319, 321, 332, 340 pilots dessicated 65 pitch-control servo device 296 pogos 47, 79, 108
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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.