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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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005653421 UNCLASSIFIED Chapter 5 220 - 'it- • x ,wymt, raa., "?•;.(54-. Recovery of Article 349, April 1960 'hisr<% Ibid.. chap. 15. pp. 33-36 (TS Codeword). The publicity generated by the U-2 incident stirred considerable controversy in Japan, and there were soon demonstrations against the continuing presence of U-2s in Japan. On 6 June 1960, project head- quarters decided on a phased-out withdrawal of Detachment C between 15 July and 1 September, but this timetable had to be accel- erated when the Japanese Government formally requested the re- moval of the U-2s on 8 July.'u 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.