Or, as NBC is hyping it,
Area 51 and its purpose declassified: No UFOs, but lots of U-2 spy planes
In other words, some of the most fascinating stories to come out of the Cold War are now being declassified. From the article
with the documents from George Washington University:
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What the CIA released in response to a 2005 Freedom of Information Act request is a substantially less redacted version of a history of two key aerial reconnaissance programs. Written by agency historians Gregory Pedlow and Donald Welzenbach, and titled The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974, the study was published in classified channels in 1992. Subsequently, a heavily redacted version of the U-2 portion was published, in 1998, by the agency's Center for the Study of Intelligence as a book, The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974, in conjunction with a CIA conference on the U-2. The full study, in redacted form, had been released in response to FOIA requests.
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Scroll to the bottom of the page to get the individual chapters as scan-based PDFs. An earlier link to a copy of the entire document resulted in a corrupted download, and has now been replaced with a torrent file.