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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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- p. 80 …production was needed to power specially
configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first…
- p. 122 …a reconnaissance version of the twin-engine
Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin…
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