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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. 12 …later, at press conferences in February and July 1964, President
Lyndon B. Johnson revealed the existence…
- p. 40 …MIT Press.
1977), p. 68: Beschloss, Maplay, p. 74: TCP Report. pp. 185-186 (S).
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- p. 98 …The Soviet Union sent
strongly worded protest notes to the United States and the nations
from…
- p. 102 …not only press releases and
the public line to be taken, but also the suspension of…
- p. 107 …The "provisional" designation
gave the U-2 detachments greater security because provisional Air
Force units did…
- p. 112 …at a press conference that the Soviet Union might be ahead of the
United States in…
- p. 125 …Dial Press, 1982), pp. 45-47.
Lundahl and Brugioni interview (TS Codeword).
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- p. 174 …McElroy stressed that the gap would be
temporary and that at its end the United States…
- p. 195 …in the press about the presence of "spyplanes" on
Japanese territory, asked the United States to…
- p. 198 …DCI records (S).
" United States Congress, Senate. Foreign Relations Committee, Executive Sessions of the
Senate Foreign…
- p. 307 …By 1962 the United States had become aware
of the effectiveness of a new Soviet radar…
- p. 315 …To preserve the secrecy of
the OXCART program, the Air Force informed the press that an…
- p. 328 …at
times when the press and Congress alleged that the United States was
falling behind the…
- p. 362 …MIT Press, 1977.
Kistiakowsky. George B. A Scientist at the White House. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press…
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