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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.
“Donald A. Johnson”17 pages
A-12s 005653421 UNCLASSIFIED Chapter 6 298 EO 129581.6(dli1l>1010<25Yrs [Si Defense McNamara told DCI McCone that he doubted that the OXCART would ever be used and suggested that improvements in 1 jwould very likely eliminate the need for the expensive OXCART program. Strongly disagreeing, McCone told McNamara that he had every intention of using OXCART aircraft to fly over the Soviet Union. McCone raised this issue with President Kennedy in April 1963, at a time when the nation's I were experiencing a great number of failures and the intelligence community was clamoring for better photography to confirm or disprove allegations of the existence of an antiballistic missile system at Leningrad. Unconvinced by McCone's arguments for OXCART overflights, President Kennedy expressed the hope that some means might be devised for improving instead. 9' "'John A. NIcCone, Memorandum for the Record. ''Summary of meeting with Secretary McNamara and Secretary Gilpatric. General Carter and Mr. McCone on 3 July 1962." 6 July 1962. DC1 records (S): McCone. Memorandum for the File. "Meeting with the President-5:30-15 Apr 1963 in Palm Beach. Florida. - DCI records (S). 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.