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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.

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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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  • p. 16 …An RB-29 lost in the Sea of Japan on 13 June 1952 was probably also…
  • p. 38 …off to about 6 percent of its sea-level thrust. Finally, low structural load factors, like…
  • p. 75 …with a boiling point of 300T at sea level. Manufacturing this special fuel required petroleum byproducts…
  • p. 80 …heavier and delivered only 10,200 pounds of thrust at sea level; the resulting --soarer UNCLASSIFIED
  • p. 89 …that they could not be flown at sea level faster than 190 knots in smooth air…
  • p. 98 …southern Europe and then across the Black Sea and the desert areas of China. These bal…
  • p. 102 …working on a cover story for over- seas operations. It was important to have a plausible…
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  • p. 139 …Soviet border from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and on to Afghanistan. The System…
  • p. 146 …aircraft made a run over the Black Sea. 'I here were a total of nine DB…
  • p. 148 …space launch taciitty east of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. None of the mission planners was…
  • p. 158 …it turned abruptly upward over the Bering Sea just west of Alaska, climbed to 110,000…
  • p. 166 …the Soviet border and over the Black Sea without entering Soviet airspace. In late August, as…
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  • p. 217 SAM Sites in Cuba, August 1962 Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico NORTH A TLANTIC OCEAN 9…
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Interviews and Speeches
Interview with Robert Amory, Jr., by Donald E. Welzenbach and
Gregory W. Pedlow, Washington, DC, 22 April 1987 (Secret).
Interview with James G. Baker by Donald E. Welzenbach,
Washington, DC, 24 April 1985 (Secret).
Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October
1965 (Top Secret Codeword).
Interview with Joseph V. Charyk by Donald E. Welzenbach,
Washington, DC, 5 December 1984 (Top Secret Codeword).
Interview with former U-2 pilots.
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DC, May (Secret).
Interview with James A. Cunningham, Jr., by Donald E. Welzenbach,
Washington, DC, 4 October 1983 (Top Secret Codeword).
Interview with Allen F. Donovan by Donald E. Welzenbach, Corona
del Mar, California, 20 May 1985 (Secret).
Interview with Brig. Gen. Leo A. Geary, USAF (Ret.), by Donald E.
Welzenbach, 3 April 1986 (Secret).
Interview with Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster by Donald E. Welzenbach
and Gregory W. Pedlow, Washington, DC, 8 July 1987 (Secret).
Speech by Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Halloran (former Air Force U-2 pilot)
at the National Air & Space Museum, 24 April 1986 (Unclassified).
Interview with James R. Killian, Jr. by Donald E. Welzenbach,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2 November 1984 (Secret).
Interview with Edwin H. Land by Donald E. Welzenbach, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 17 and 20 September 1984 (Top Secret Codeword).
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