National Security Archive, George Washington University
The U-2, OXCART and the SR-71: US aerial espionage in the Cold War
Fifty declassified records tracing the development of American high-altitude reconnaissance — the programmes flown from the Nevada site later known as Area 51.
- Archive
- National Security Archive, George Washington University
- Date of document
- 16 Oct 2002
- Classification
- Declassified
- Reference
- Electronic Briefing Book No. 74
- Licence
- Public domain US records, compiled by the National Security Archive
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Extract
The collection traces the bureaucratic turf battles and intelligence requirements that shaped the development of America’s aerial reconnaissance programme throughout the Cold War and into the twenty-first century.
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