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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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Equipment from a WS-461L balloon on display in Moscow, 11 October 1958 CO5653421 UNCLASSIFIED Streret-NerreallL. Chapter 3 146 Goodpaster on 29 July 1958 to tell the Air Force that "the project is to be discontinued at once and every cent that has been made avail- able as part of any project involving crossing the Iron Curtain is to be impounded and no further expenditures are to be made." Two days later Eisenhower followed up this order with a formal memorandum to Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy telling him that "there is disturbing evidence of a deterioration in the processes of discipline and responsibility within the armed forces." He cited, in particular, "unauthorized decisions which have apparently resulted in certain balloons falling within the territory of the Communist Bloc" and overflights over routes "that contravened my standing orders." 99 On 2 September 1958, there was another violation of Soviet air- space when an unarmed Air Force EC-130 on an electronic intelligence collection mission crossed from Turkey into Soviet Armenia and was shot down by Soviet fighter aircraft. Six of the men on board were killed and the remaining 11 were never heard from again, despite State Department attempts to get the Soviet Union to reveal their fate."" " Andrew J. Goodpaster, Memorandum for the Record. 29 July 1958, WHOSS, Alpha, DDEL (S); Goodpaster interview (S). " Quoted in Ambrose, Eisenhower: The President, pp. 475-476. "US Representations to the Soviet Government on C-130 Transport Shot Down by Soviet Fighter Aircraft," US Department of State Bulletin, 23 February 1959, pp. 262-271; Beschloss, Mayday. p. 159. UNCLASSIFIED
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.