Documents / FOIA release
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."
“Hill”13 pages
005653421 UNCLASSIFIED SecNQQRN Chapter 5 256 E0 12958 1.61111111>101010101010<25Yrs (Si In early August. Kissinger asked the Air Force to provide U-2s to overfly the Canal, but the Air Force demurred, saying it would take several weeks to move a U-2 detachment from Del Rio, Texas, to the Middle East. At this point. DCI Helms told an NSC meeting that the Agency's Detachment G at Edwards Air Force Base could deploy air- craft nd begin filming the Suez area witnin me weex. anu it tnu. in tact. the first U-2 arrived in 1---2nly 71 hours after receiving notification to deploy. Between T . and 10 November 1970. Agency U-2s flew 29 missions over the cease-fire zone as part of Project EVEN STEVEN. Most flights used the B camera, but 12 were equipped with the new, high-resolu- tion H camera. The EVEN STEVEN U-2s also employed a dozen electronic-intelligence-collection packages. from System-X to System-XXIV. After 10 November 1970. Air Force SR-71s took over the task of photographing the cease-fire zone.6 The Middle East was again the cause of a Detachment G deploy- ment in October 1973, when another Arab-Israeli war broke out. Two U-2s deployed on 7 and 8 October /i, to be ready tor possinie coverage or tne conflict. Detachment G received no such tasking, however, and the last of the aircraft returned to California on 13 November. The 1973 war did .4 (hid. pp. 5-6. 10-11 ITS Codeword). Ibid.. pp. 15-20 ITS Codeword). UNCLASSIFIED
Not linked to a story yet.
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.