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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 390 WHALE TALE 247, 249 Wheelon, Albert (Bud) 240, 287, 333 Wheelus AFB 121 White House 33, 43, 97, 109, 111-112, 120, 122, 128, 154, 172, 186, 189 Wienberg, Charles F. (Bud) 7, 11-12 Wiesbaden, Germany 80, 95, 104-105, 108, 114-115, 120-121 Wiesner, Jerome B. 37 Williams, John J. 185 Williamsport, Pennsylvania 222 Wilson, Charles 126 wind currents 87 wind tunnels 269 wing teeth 277 wings 5, 8, 11, 23-25, 42, 45, 47, 66, 68, 72, 75-76, 80, 89, 95, 129, 148-149, 199, 242, 248, 251, 271, 274, 277, 286, 312, 340 wiretaps 2 Wonsan Harbor 307 Worcester, Massachusetts 62 world press 85, 122 World War I 1 World War II 1-2, 4, 7-8, 13, 15, 17, 22, 42, 49, 56, 62, 87, 95, 97, 124, 135, 214, 222, 232, 317, 322, 327-331 Wright Air Development Command 4-5,8,12,14,18,35,73 Wright-Patterson 73 WRINGER 2 WS-461L 144-145 Wu-ch'ang, China 228 ## X XF-104 (See Lockheed Day Fighter) X-16 9, 13, 15, 26, 34-35 X-band radar pulses 335 X-rays 291 ## Y YAK-25RM (See Mandrake) YAK-26 (See Mandrake) Yakovlev 148 Yakovlev-25 148 Yale University 15 Yancey, William F. 75, 77-78 YC-97 Boeing Stratocruiser 13 Yerevan, Soviet Union 124 YF-12A 285, 291, 294, 308 50z(See also AF-12) Yokota AFB, Japan 134 ## Secret
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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.