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CIA/CSI/ History Staff Monograph, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 16 July 2002.

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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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“Kodak”6 pages

  • p. 17 …Leghorn, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate and employee of Eastman Kodak who had commanded the…
  • p. 31 …The study group's chairman was Kodak physicist Carl F. P. Overhage, and its members included…
  • p. 44 …Henry Yutzy, Eastman Kodak's film expert, and Richard S. Perkin, President of the Perkin-Elmer…
  • p. 45 …resolution and film capacity, and the Eastman Kodak company was working on new thin, lightweight film…
  • p. 294 …In late 1959, OXCART managers asked Perkin-Elmer, Eastman Kodak, and Elycon to develop three different…
  • p. 344 …After working on the development of Technicolor, Overhage went to work for Kodak. He headed the…
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APPROVED FOR
RELEASE DATE:
.16-Jul-2011
THE CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY AND
OVERHEAD X
RECONNAISSANCE
The U-2 and OXCART
Programs, 1954- 1974
Gregory W. Pedlow and
Donald E. Welzenbach

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