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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. 22 …Bell was still being developed.'' Air Force headquarters soon approved Martin's proposal to mod- ify…
p. 55 CO5653421 UNCLASSIFIED E0129581.6(dlill>10<25Yrs ISI personnel divided among project headquarters, a US test…
p. 73 …On 3 August 1955, Dulles and Twining met at SAC headquarters in Omaha to sign the…
p. 74 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (TS Codeword). " Brig. Gen. Leo…
p. 102 …U-2 project officer, the Air Force Headquarters project officer, and NACA's top official, Dr…
p. 107 …did not have to report to higher headquarters. WRSP-1, known within the Agency as Detachment…
p. 117 …Late on the evening of 3 July, Bissell went to project headquarters in the Matomic Building…
p. 127 …The PARAMOUNT Committee worked inside PID headquarters in the Steuart Building. Composed of members from CIA…
p. 138 …and prom tly reported the conversation to headquarters. When details of close call reached Washington, James…
p. 153 …of Detachment A achieved excellent results, project headquarters had already decided that Western Europe was not…
p. 194 …Because the new government had not been briefed on the U-2, Project Headquarters refused to…
p. 205 …its own building to the new CIA Headquarters at Langley. Soon afterward, Col. Stanley W. Beerli…
p. 312 …that the performance of an A-12 with 175 engines (as suggested by project headquarters for…
p. 319 …12958 1.61111111>1010<25Yrs (Si Project Headquarters in Langley_planned and directed all operational BLACK…
p. 323 …Project headquarters informed Deputy Defense Secretary Vance on 10 January 1967 that the A- 12s would…
p. 324 …President Johnson con- firmed this decision on 21 May.'" - - Project headquarters selected 8 June 1968 as…
p. 334 …Air Force personnel served at all levels of the recon- naissance program, from project headquarters to…
p. 365 …Speech given by Richard Bissell at CIA Headquarters, 12 October 1965 (Top Secret Codeword). Interview with…

Chapter 2
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A- 1 camera
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his research associate duties at Harvard and his service on govern-
ment advisory bodies, Baker established a small firm known as Spica,
Incorporated, on 31 January 1955.
The A-1 camera system consisted of two 24-inch K-38 framing
cameras. One was mounted vertically and photographed a 17.2° swath
beneath the aircraft onto a roll of 9.5-inch film. The second K-38 was
placed in a rocking mount so that it alternately photographed the left
oblique and right oblique out to 36.5° onto separate rolls of 9.5-inch
film. The film supplies unwound in opposite directions in order to
minimize their effect on the balance of the aircraft. Both cameras
used standard Air Force 24-inch focal-length lenses adjusted for max-
imum acuity by Baker. The development of the special rocking mount
by Perkin-Elmer's Dr. Roderic M. Scott was a major factor in reduc-
ing the size and weight of the A-1 system, because the mount pro-
vided broad transverse coverage with a single lens, ending the need
for two separate cameras:6
OSA History, chap. 1, annex 3. pp. 1-3 (TS Codeword).
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