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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.
“Cooper”7 pages
- p. 91 …Early in the program Bissell and
Ritland had foreseen such an emergency and, with the cooperation…
- p. 95 …of their
mission kept the level of cooperation high. The group always attempted
to reach a…
- p. 143 …deception project since its early days,
he cooperated reluctantly because he disliked adding attachments that
made…
- p. 196 …as possible while giving the appearance of cooperating with his cap-
tors. To extract the maximum…
- p. 287 …by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier (EG&G) in
cooperation with the Scientific Engineering Institute at a small…
- p. 302 …Halaby cooperated fully
with the Agency and personally briefed all FAA regional chiefs on how
to…
- p. 334 …The cooperation between the Agency and the
Air Force that began with the U-2 and…
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