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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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The Steuart Building, home of the Photo-Intelligence Division 005653421 UNCLASSIFIED Secre N Chapter 2 83 flood of photographs that the U-2 would bring back, so in May 1955 the Directorate of Support (DS) authorized expanding PID tor -1)er- sons. Soon afterward the division moved from its room in M Building to larger quarters in Que Building. The Photo-Intelligence Division continued to expand in anticipa- tion of large quantities of U-2 photography. Its authorized strength doubled in January 1956 when a new project known as HTAUTOMAT came into existence to exploit U-2 photography. All of the products from this project would be placed in the new control sys- tem. By the summer of 1956, the PID had moved to larger quarters in the Steuart Building at 5th Street and New York Avenue, NW. PID photointerpreters had already begun to work with U-2 photography following a series of missions in April 1956, when U-2s photo- graphed a number of US installations that were considered analogous to high-priority Soviet installations. As a result of these preparations, PID was ready for the mass of photography that began coming when U-2 operations commenced in the summer of 1956.m (0 12958 1.6(011>1010<25Yrs IS) For a more detailed history of photointerpretation in the CIA. see The National Photographic Interpretation Center. vol. I. Antecedents ana curly rears. Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series NPIC-2, December 1972, pp. 171-194 (S). 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.