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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.
“Canberra”10 pages
## Secret NOFORN New Technologies Necessitated By OXCART’s High Speed... 279 Designing the OXCART’s Cameras... 281 Choosing Pilots for OXCART... 283 Selection of a Testing Site for the OXCART... 283 Delivery of the First OXCART... 286 Changes in the Project Management... 286 OXCART’s First Flights... 288 Speed-Related Problems... 290 New Versions of the OXCART... 291 The Question of Surfacing a Version of the OXCART... 292 Additional Problems During Final Testing... 295 Discussions on the OXCART’s Future Employment... 297 First A-12 Deployment: Operation BLACK SHIELD... 304 The End of the OXCART Program... 307 Possible Successors to the OXCART... 312 Summary of the OXCART Program... 313 ◆ Chapter 7 Conclusion U-2 Overflights of the Soviet Union... 315 Participation of Allies in the U-2 Program... 319 U-2s as Collectors of Tactical Intelligence... 319 Advances in Technology... 320 Cooperation With the Air Force... 321 Impact of the Overhead Reconnaissance Program on the CIA... 321 ◆ Appendix A: Acronyms... 325 ◆ Appendix B: Key Personnel... 327 ◆ Appendix C: Electronic Devices Carried by the U-2... 335 ◆ Appendix D: U-2 Overflights of the Soviet Union, 4 July 1954–1 May 1960 ◆ Appendix E: Unmanned Reconnaissance Projects... 339 ◆ Bibliography... 347 ◆ Index... 355
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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.