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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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005653421 UNCLASSIFIED —"Tratilletef-6061141.— Chapter 4 170 [012958 IS) 1.6191(11>10101015Yrs [S1 THE LAST OVERFLIGHT: OPERATION GRAND SLAM Even before the 9 April overflight took place, President Eisenhower had consented on 28 March to an additional overflight during the month of April. His willingness to allow yet another overflight was Memorandum for Richard M. Bissell. Deputy Director (Plans). from Colonel Burke, Acting Chief, DPD, "Operational Priorit y of Proposed CHALICE Missions." 26 April 1960, IC Staff, COMIREX records, "CHALICE (General)" (TS Codeword). 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.