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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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CO5653421 UNCLASSIFIED • Chapter 1 Searching for a System The Need for High-Altitude Reconnaissance 1 Early Postwar Aerial Reconnaissance 2 New Approaches to Photoreconnaissance 4 The Air Force Search for a New Reconnaissance Aircraft 8 Lockheed CL-282 Supporters and the CIA 13 Scientists and Overhead Reconnaissance 17 The BEACON HILL Report 17 Concern About the Danger of a Soviet Surprise Attack 19 The Air Force Intelligence Systems Panel 21 British Overflight of Kapustin Yar 23 The Intelligence Systems Panel and the CL-282 24 The Technological Capabilities Panel 26 Project Three Support for the Lockheed CL-282 27 A Meeting With the President 32 CIA and Air Force Agreement on the CL-282 33 • Chapter 2 Developing the U-2 The Establishment of the U-2 Project 39 Funding Arrangements for Project AQUATONE 43 Major Design Features of the U-2 45 The Development of the Camera System 48 Preparations for Testing the U-2 56 Security for the U-2 Project 59 The CIA — Air Force Partnership 60 Technical Challenges to High-Altitude Flight 61 Delivery of the First U-2 66 Initial Testing of the U-2 68 U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK 72 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.