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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."
“US Navy”11 pages
- p. 11 …At great risk, US Air Force and Navy aircraft had
been conducting peripheral reconnaissance and shallow…
- p. 16 …As a result, in the late 1940s, the US Air Force and Navy began trying
to…
- p. 17 …Two months later, on 7 October 1952, Soviet fighter aircraft
stalked and shot down a US…
- p. 72 …agreement with the Air
Force and the Navy (which at that time was also interested in…
- p. 147 …turned to the Navy, which granted permission for Detachment C
to use the Naval Air Station…
- p. 180 …The Army, Navy, and CIA, however, doubted
that any had been deployed, because none could be…
- p. 223 …by Air Force and Navy reconnais-
sance aircraft. President Kennedy used NPIC photographs to illustrate
his…
- p. 273 …Charyk, and
his Navy counterpart, Garrison Norton. Designers from several air-
craft manufacturers also attended some…
- p. 283 …This engine had originally been developed
for the Navy's large, jet-powered flying boat, the…
- p. 297 …The need for additional buildings on the base was
met by the Navy. Three surplus Navy…
- p. 298 …After hearing Bissell and
Holcomb's suggestion that the J58 might be used in future Navy…
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craft, but it did bring unwanted publicity to the U-2 program. Much of
the publicity resulted from the actions of Detachment C's security
unit, whose conspicuous Hawaian shirts and large pistols drew the
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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.