NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech 77
Muad'Dave writes "The National Reconnaissance Office is set to reveal details of two of the cold war's most capable spy satellite programs on September 17th — the GAMBIT and HEXAGON projects, aka the keyhole KH-7, -8, and -9 satellites. These bus-sized sats provided critical imagery during the height of the cold war, and were likely the inspiration for the movie Ice Station Zebra. The article links midway down the first page provide a fascinating look into the world of real spy-vs-spy, cloak-and-dagger intelligence gathering."
Re:It's nice to know stuff 60 years after it matte (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:It's nice to know stuff 60 years after it matte (Score:2, Insightful)
The number of scary things the US military and CIA have done in the last 50 years is well-documented and not tinfoil-hat material. Sure, Assange may or may not have been set up, but the point remains that a lot of what was going on then that we know about now would have been assumed to be paranoia by those who thought it to be true at the time too.
In sixty or seventy years, when the truth is declassified about now, you might not be around for the "i told you so" ... so do yourself a favour and assume a zebra doesn't change its stripes much.