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This is a CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, published in Washington in 1992 and approved for release in 2011. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974, which developed and flew the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. It traces the U-2's development, the overflights of the Soviet Union, the downing of Francis Gary Powers on 1 May 1960, and later operations. One section is titled U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK.
HR70-14 ifientim fOii .0 01ApV.-; AM:100002 005653421 APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE: .16-Jul-2011 THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND OVERHEAD X RECONNAISSANCE The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954- 1974 Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.