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This is a Secret History Staff monograph by Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach of the Central Intelligence Agency, published in 1992. It gives a history of the CIA's manned overhead reconnaissance program from 1954 to 1974, covering the development and operation of the U-2 and the A-12 OXCART aircraft. It covers overflights of the Soviet Union, the 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers, and later operations. One section is titled "U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK."
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 This CIA History Staff document chronicles the complete history of the U-2 and OXCART (A-12) high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft programs from 1954 to 1974, detailing their development, operations over the Soviet Union and other targets worldwide, the famous downing of Francis Gary Powers in 1960, organizational reforms following that incident, and the eventual transfer of operations from CIA to Air Force control. A more redacted version of this document has been available on CIA's public website.
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338 Secret NOFOAN Appendix D APPENDIX D U-2 Overflights of the Soviet Union, 4 July 1954-1 May 1960 (continued) Date Mission Pilot Airfield Unit Payload Route 22 August l 957 4049 Birkhead Lahore B A-2 Merket Bazar, Kuldja, Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, Sinkiang 22 August l 957 4050 Cherbonneaux: Lahore B A-2 Lake Balkhash, Semipalatinsk, Barnaul, Prokop'yevsk, Novokuznetsk, Leninogorsk 28 August 1957 4058 Jones Lahore B A-2 Dushanbe, Tashkent, Tyuratam, Kazalinsk, Aral Sea 10 September 1957 4059 Hall Adana B A-2 Krasnovodsk, Gur'yev, Astrakhan', Tbilisi 16 September 1957 6008 Baker Eielson C A-2 Kamchatka Peninsula, Milkovo 13 October 1957 2040 Stockman Giebelstadt A A-2 Norway, Finland, Murmansk, Kandalaksha I March 1958 601 l Crull Atsugi C A-2 Dal' nerechensk, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, Belagorsk, Komsomolsk, Sovetskaya Gavan' 9 July 1959 4125 Knutson Peshawar B B Tyuratam for suspected Sputnik launch 6 December 1959 8005 Robinson• Peshawar B B Kuybyshev, Kapustin Yar, Caucasus 5 February l 960 8009 MacArthur• Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kazan 9 April 1960 4155 Erickson Peshawar B B Lake Balkhash, Semipalatinsk, Kyzylespe, Dzhezhkazgan, Tyuratarn I May 1960 4154 Powers Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk; downed by SAM a RAF pilot Sec1 et
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