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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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325 327 335 337 339 347 355 CO5653421 UNCLASSIFIED .—Sasset-AK*4314N-- New Technologies Necessitated By OXCART's High Speed 279 Designing the OXCART's Cameras 281 Choosing Pilots for OXCART 283 Selection of a Testing Site for the OXCART 283 Delivery of the First OXCART 286 Changes in the Project Management 286 OXCART's First Flights 288 Speed-Related Problems 290 New Versions of the OXCART 291 The Question of Surfacing a Version of the OXCART 292 Additional Problems During Final Testing 295 Discussions on the OXCART's Future Employment 297 First A-12 Deployment: Operation BLACK SHIELD 304 The End of the OXCART Program 307 Possible Successors to the OXCART 312 Summary of the OXCART Program 313 •Chapter 7 Conclusion . _ E0129581.61d1111>1015Yrs U-2 Overflights of the Soviet Union 315 E012958 1.61111161>101010<25Yrs Appendix C: 181 +Appendix D: • Appendix E: • Bibliography •Index UNCLASSIFIED
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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.