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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 ge vs. nincnRru Hiring U-2 Pilots 73 Pilot Training 75 Final Tests of the U-2 76 Three Fatal Crashes in 1956 79 Coordination of Collection Requirements 80 Preparations To Handle the Product of U-2 Missions 82 The Impact of the Air Force Project GENETRIX Balloons 84 AQUATONE Briefings for Selected Members of Congress 88 The U-2 Cover Story 89 + Chapter 3 U-2 Operations in the Soviet Bloc and Middle East, 1956-1958 The Deployment of Detachment A 94 The Move to Wiesbaden 95 President Eisenhower's Attitude Toward Overflights 96 First Overflights of Eastern Europe 100 First U-2 Flights Over the Soviet Union 104 ED 129581.61dli1l>1045Yrs Soviet Protest Note 109 ED 129581.61061>10<25Yrs The End of the Bomber Gap 111 (SI Tactical Intelligence From U-2s During the Suez Crisis 112 Renewed Overflights of the Soviet Union 122 Radar-Deceptive "Dirty Birds" 128 The New Detachment C 133 135Detachment B Flightstl 139The Decline of Detac mem kt 142 reclining Overflight Activity 143 Concerns About Soviet Countermeasures Against the U-2 147 More Powerful Engines for the U-2 149 Intervention in Lebanon, 1958 152 153 The U-2 Project at the Beginning ot 157 Ilk Chapter 4 The Final Overflights of the Soviet Union, 1959-1960 The U-2 and the "Missile-Gap" Debate 159 The Last Overflight: Operation GRAND SLAM 170 The Aftermath of the U-2 Downing 177 The Withdrawal of the Overseas Detachments 181 The Fate of Francis Gary Powers 183 Changes in Overflight Procedures After May 1960 187 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.