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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."
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- p. 80 …production was needed to power specially
configured Canberra RB-57Ds for the Air Force. The first…
- p. 122 …a reconnaissance version of the twin-engine
Canberra bomber, similar to the RAF overflight of Kapustin…
- p. 175 …2 and an Air Force RB-57D Canberra. The two air-
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