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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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005653421 UNCLASSIFIED Se OFORN Chapter 59 SECURITY FOR THE U-2 PROJECT On 29 April 1955, Richard Bissell signed an agreement with the Air Force and the Navy (which at that time was also interested in the U-2) in which the services agreed that the CIA "assumed primary respon- sibility for all security" for the overhead reconnaissance project (AQUATONE). From this time on, the CIA has been responsible for the security of overhead programs. This responsibility has placed a heavy burden on the Office of Security for establishing procedures to keep large numbers of contracts untraceable to the Central Intelligence Agency. The Office of Security has also had to determine which contractor employees require security clearances and has had to devise physical security measures for the various manufacturing fa- cilities. Keeping the U-2 and subsequent overhead systems secret has been a time-consuming and costly undertaking."' The most important aspect of the security program for the U-2 project was the creation of an entire new compartmented system for the product of U-2 missions. Access to the photographs taken by the U-2 would be strictly controlled, which often limited the ability of CIA analysts to use the products of U-2 missions. 129581.6(011>10<25Yrs (Si Even the aircraft's onboard equipment required the involvement of CIA security planners. Thus, when Kelly Johnson ordered altime- ters from the Kollman Instrument Company, he specified that the OSA History. chap. 7. pp. 4-6 (TS Codeword). Information supplied by James Cunningham to Donald E. Welzenbach (S). Sbiet 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.