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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. 13 …Without their help a good deal of this story could never have become known. The assistance…
  • p. 44 …the CL-282; in fact, there may never have been a formal decision as such. In…
  • p. 74 …fly, Lockheed engineers had to solve problems never before encountered. Among these problems was the need…
  • p. 84 …Flight tests continued, with the U-2 ascending to alti- tudes never before attained in sustained…
  • p. 102 …put aside for further thought (which it never received), and Bissell's weather research cover re…
  • p. 138 …Then in January 1960, the commander of Detachment B, raised an important question that had never…
  • p. 147 …Peninsula, because of bad weather and, therefore, never entered Soviet airspace. A second attempt to photograph…
  • p. 159 …Six of the men on board were killed and the remaining 11 were never heard from…
  • p. 160 …Although this new Berlin crisis never became as threatening as the blockade of 1948-49, President…
  • p. 165 …The Air Force never equipped its orig- inal U-2s with the J75 engines." Detachment C…
  • p. 189 …Powers never made it past Sverdlovsk. Four and a half hours into the mission, an SA…
  • p. 208 …very good reason, and such a situation never developed, in part because satellite photography gradually began…
  • p. 210 …Since this never happened, Francis Gary Powers' flight on I May 1960 proved to be the…
  • p. 223 …Responsibility for photo- graphic coverage of Cuba remained with the Air Force; Agency pilots never flew…
  • p. 264 Sratrt.11/Qt2.1....31■1 Chapter 5 251 005653421 UNCLASSIFIED There was never another Agency…
  • p. 290 …the OXCART aircraft for its own use. never adopted the laminated vertical stabilizers.'4 THE OXCART…
  • p. 294 …Scott employed concepts never be- fore used in camera systems. These included the use of a…
  • p. 298 …As it turned out, the J58 was never used in a Navy aircraft. OSA History. chap…
  • p. 299 …This new delay was caused by leaking fuel tanks, a problem that would never be solved…
  • p. 313 …even though the SKYLARK contingency plan was never put into effect. Since U-2s continued to…
  • p. 316 …Moreover, the Soviets never operated the radars in the tracking and locktin modes, a fact that…
  • p. 326 …collector of strategic intelligence, the OXCART was never used for this purpose. Its brief deployment was…
  • p. 328 …Yet, the President never went so far as to eliminate the overflight program. As Commander in…
  • p. 333 …its speed and altitude have never been equaled. The development of this aircraft also led to…
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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
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China Offshore Islands Dispute of 1958 215
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U-2Cs for Detachment C 217
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(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
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Increasing Responsibilities, Inadequate Resources in Asia 233
Advanced ECM Equipment 237
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Operation SCOPE SHIELD Over North Vietnam 246
Improvements in U-2 Technology 247
Modification of U-2s for Aircraft Carrier Deployment 247
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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
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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
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