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.
“Headquarters”25 pages
Neptune bomber 3 Privateer patrol aircraft 3 Naval Ordnance Test Station 340 U.S. News and World Report 99 US nuclear test monitoring system 139 US nuclear tests 147 US Senate, Armed Services Committee 88,99,185 US Senate, Foreign Relations Committee 165,185 US 6th Fleet 153 US 7th Fleet 215 USS Kitty Hawk 247 US Intelligence Board (USIB) 196-197,225,228,249,332,336 USS Ranger 250 utility aircraft 66 ## V Vance, Cyrus 238,300,309-310 Venezuela 211 vernier adjustment 76 very-high-acuity lenses 50 Viet Cong 230,243 Vietnam 190,216,221-222,230-231,233-234, 242-243,246,301,304-308,311,336, 342-343 Vito, Carmine 65,105,124-125,214 Vladimirovka, Soviet Union 171 Secret NOFORN Index 389 Vladivostok, Soviet Union 3, 126 Vogt, Richard 8 Voigt, Woldemar 8 Volga River 22 von Fritsche, Werner 1 ## W WADC's Bombardment Branch 8 Wake Island 305 Walker, Christopher H. 155 wallpaper 130 Walter Reed Hospital 96 Warsaw Pact 87 Washington University, St. Louis 29 Watertown Strip 57 Watton RAF Base. England 156 "weather plane" cover story 179 weather research 85-86,89-90,132,182 Weatherwise 216 Wendover, Utah 295 West Potomac Park 42 Western Europe 20,85,140 Western Hemisphere 211 "wet-wing" design 68
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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.