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The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; the U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974

Central Intelligence Agency · 1900-01-01 · 406 pages · text by OCR, confidence 99%

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Approved for Release: 2013/06/25 --- Secret NOFORN Appendix D 338 --- 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 1957 4049 Birkhead Lahore B A-2 Merket Bazar, Kuldja, Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, Sinkiang 22 August 1957 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 1 March 1958 6011 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 Robinsona Peshawar B B Kuybyshev, Kapustin Yar, Caucasus 5 February 1960 8009 MacArthura Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kazan 9 April 1960 4155 Erickson Peshawar B B Lake Balkhash, Semipalatinsk, Kyzylespe, Dzhezhkazgan, Tyuratam 1 May 1960 4154 Powers Peshawar B B Tyuratam, Kyshtym, Sverdlovsk; downed by SAM a RAF pilot --- Secret --- Approved for Release: 2013/06/25

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