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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 388 prebreathing 64, 125 projects 39-40, 42-44, 56, 59, 61-62, 71, 73, 74, 81-82, 88-89, 97, 153-155, 157, 186, 257, 316, 327-331 rocking mount 51, 53 stall envelope 71 stalls 80 tail section 47, 76 taxi trials 68-69 training 302 vertical stabilizers 277, 343 vulnerability study 97, 207 U-2B 95 U-2Cs 152, 196, 208, 210, 217 U-2F 198 U-2G 248, 250, 252, 255 U-2R 251-253, 257, 282, 336 U-3 66 Ukraine Ukraine 106 Under Secretary of State 188,225 Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) 72 United Arab Republic 153 United Kingdom (See Great Britain) United Kingdom Requirements Committee 154 United Nations 20 United Press International (UPI) 232 United States 2-4,7-8,19-21,26-27,73,77-78. 85,89-90,96,98-100,108-110,112. 117,121,124,140,142,147-148,153-156, 159,161,163-164,179,181-183,187,201, 205,215,221-222,224-226,229-232,245- 247,254,256,285,294,297,299,301-302, 306,315,60,316,318-319,332 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft 291,304 UPWIND 303 Urals 22,163 uranium gaseous-diffusion plant 239 uranium-processing facility 138 US Air Attache in Moscow 177 US Air Force, Secretary of the 11,32,78,81,327-329 US Air Force Air Weather Service 94 Chief of Air Staff 78 EC-130, 146 Inspector General 61 oxygen mask 62 RB-57D Canberra 162 Third Air Force 89 US deterrent force 317 US Geological Survey 254 US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee 88 US Marine Corps 40,153,247,328 US Marine Corps Reserve 14 US Military Academy at West Point 329 US Navy Chief of Naval Materiel 285
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.