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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.
“The Pentagon”9 pages
- p. 18 …Leghorn persuaded his superiors to submit his suggestion to the .
Pentagon for funding. He had not…
- p. 20 …Meanwhile Leghorn, frustrated by the rejection
of his original concept, had transferred to the Pentagon in…
- p. 22 …become the assistant director
of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program, was in the Pentagon
on business…
- p. 24 …for the construction and
maintenance of 30 aircraft to a group of senior Pentagon officials that…
- p. 26 …He had been present at Kelly Johnson's presentation on
the CL-282 at the Pentagon…
- p. 27 …with Strong in the Pentagon on
12 May 1954. six days before the Wright Air Development…
- p. 52 …Late on the morning of 2 December 1954, Dulles told Bissell to
go to the Pentagon…
- p. 91 …1-le then briefed a high-level
Pentagon panel that included the Secretary of the Air…
- p. 92 …After a half hour passed, the base commander called the
Pentagon to ask where the crippled…
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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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