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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.

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used in various scenarios, including one in which the pilot was cap-
tured. Even in such a case, however, the proposed policy was for the
United States to stick to the weather research cover story, a course of
action that would prove disastrous in May 1960."
" OSA History. chap. 8, pp. 30-35; chap. I annex 73 ITS Codewnrd).
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