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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.

  • p. 16 …An RB-29 lost in the Sea of Japan on 13 June 1952 was probably also…
  • p. 38 …off to about 6 percent of its sea-level thrust. Finally, low structural load factors, like…
  • p. 75 …with a boiling point of 300T at sea level. Manufacturing this special fuel required petroleum byproducts…
  • p. 80 …heavier and delivered only 10,200 pounds of thrust at sea level; the resulting --soarer UNCLASSIFIED
  • p. 89 …that they could not be flown at sea level faster than 190 knots in smooth air…
  • p. 98 …southern Europe and then across the Black Sea and the desert areas of China. These bal…
  • p. 102 …working on a cover story for over- seas operations. It was important to have a plausible…
  • p. 120 …neanteagon • 724744 (8009071 4-92 Finland Baltic Sea ükranian Italy ROME IUMIS Tunisia Mediterranean Sea UNCLASSIFIED
  • p. 139 …Soviet border from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and on to Afghanistan. The System…
  • p. 146 …aircraft made a run over the Black Sea. 'I here were a total of nine DB…
  • p. 148 …space launch taciitty east of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. None of the mission planners was…
  • p. 158 …it turned abruptly upward over the Bering Sea just west of Alaska, climbed to 110,000…
  • p. 166 …the Soviet border and over the Black Sea without entering Soviet airspace. In late August, as…
  • p. 215 …F"••• N. ' :\ ■ Caribbean Sea Ceyrnen Islands M FL) .r, Unttad ) ' ^ Gulf of Mexico NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN…
  • p. 216 …Isle of P,floo Caribbean Sea ••• Corn. Islands IWO Janss — 200 kilometers 100 200 Miles ".! SgsgalgOidaRte…
  • p. 217 SAM Sites in Cuba, August 1962 Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico NORTH A TLANTIC OCEAN 9…
  • p. 316 …Shortly before Leningrad, the A-12 would head west-southwest down the Baltic Sea, skirting the…
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Air Research and Development Command
(USAF)
ARC
ARDC
Secret ORN
Appendix A
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APPENDIX A
Acronyms
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AFB Air Force Base
AFDAP Air Force office symbol for the Assistant for
Development Planning under the Deputy Chief
of Staff for Development ED 129581.6(d)M>1010<25Yrs
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ATIC
BSAP
BUORL
CONIINT
COMIREX
COM-OR
DB
DCI
DCID
DDCI
DDI
DDP
DDS&T
DPD
DPS
ECM
EG&G
ELINT
FCRC
HASP
IAC
IAS
IC
ICBM
IR
ISP
JRC
MATS
Air Technical Intelligence Center (USAF)
Boston Scientific Advisory Panel
Boston University Optical Research Laboratory
Communications Intelligence
Committee on Imagery Requirements and
Exploitation
Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance
"Dirty Bird"
Director of Central Intelligence
Director of Central Intelligence Directive
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director (or Directorate) for Plans
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Development Projects Division
Development Projects Staff
Electronic Countermeasures
Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Incorporated
Electronic Intelligence
Federally Controlled Research Center
High-Altitude Air Sampling Program
Intelligence Advisory Committee
Indicated air speed
Intelligence community
Intercontinental ballistic missile
Infrared
Intelligence Systems Panel (USAF)
Joint Reconnaissance Center
Military Air Transport Service (USAF)
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