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CIA/CSI/ History Staff Monograph, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 16 July 2002.
Central Intelligence Agency · 406 pages · text from the file's own layer
This is a CIA History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, written in 1992 and approved for release in 2011. It covers the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974 and its two aircraft, the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART. It follows their development, the overflights of the Soviet Union, the downing of Francis Gary Powers in 1960, and later operations. One section is titled "U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK."
“Kapustin Yar”6 pages
- p. 4 …Intelligence Systems Panel 21
British Overflight of Kapustin Yar 23
The Intelligence Systems Panel and the…
- p. 29 …Operations Staff, OSI, "Overflight of
Kapustin Yar." 15 October 1954, OSI (OSWR) records TS, down-
graded…
- p. 36 …British Overflight of Kapustin Yar
The British were also working on high-altitude reconnaissance air-
craft…
- p. 37 …its
members about the British overflight of Kapustin Yar because they
were not cleared for this…
- p. 122 …bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin Yar in
1953. The US reply, sent to…
- p. 152 …This facility was used to test radars against incoming
missiles fired from Kapustin Yar, 1,400…
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