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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. 91 …Early in the program Bissell and
Ritland had foreseen such an emergency and, with the cooperation…
- p. 95 …of their
mission kept the level of cooperation high. The group always attempted
to reach a…
- p. 143 …deception project since its early days,
he cooperated reluctantly because he disliked adding attachments that
made…
- p. 196 …as possible while giving the appearance of cooperating with his cap-
tors. To extract the maximum…
- p. 287 …by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier (EG&G) in
cooperation with the Scientific Engineering Institute at a small…
- p. 302 …Halaby cooperated fully
with the Agency and personally briefed all FAA regional chiefs on how
to…
- p. 334 …The cooperation between the Agency and the
Air Force that began with the U-2 and…
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