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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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“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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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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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.