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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.
“Mission Control”17 pages
CO5653421 UNCLASSIFIED Ssagt_picatawy- ;4 Chapter 5 U-2 Operations After May 1960 U-2 Operations in Latin America 197 U•2 Support to the Bay of Pigs Invasion 197 Aerial Refueling Capability for the U-2 198 U-2 Cover During the Cuban Missile Crisis 199 U-2s Over 211 U-2 Operations in Asia 211 211 China Offshore Islands Dispute of 1958 215 216 U-2Cs for Detachment C 217 EO 129581.6101111>1010<25Yrs (Si 219End of Detachment C Operations Detachment G Missions Over Laos and North Vietnam 221 New Detachment 222 Use of lAircraft by US Pilots 230 231 Increasing Responsibilities, Inadequate Resources in Asia 233 Advanced ECM Equipment 237 238 240 242 244 Operation SCOPE SHIELD Over North Vietnam 246 Improvements in U-2 Technology 247 Modification of U-2s for Aircraft Carrier Deployment 247 249 A New Version of the U-2 251 Replacement of the Original U-2s With U-2Rs 253 The Final Years of the U-2 253 Support to Other Agencies 254 Overseas Deployment Exercises and Missions 255 The Phaseout of the Office of Special Activities 257 4 Chapter 6 The U-2's Intended Successor: Project OXCART, 1956-1968 The Evaluation of Designs for a Successor to the U-2 260 Competition Between Lockheed and Convair 267 The Selection of the Lockheed Design 270 Efforts To Reduce the A-12's Radar Cross Section 274 The OXCART Contract 277 UNCLASSIFIED
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 406 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.