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Secret Empire

Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage

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An edition of Secret Empire (2000)

Secret Empire

Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage

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"In a brief period of explosive, top-secret innovation during the 1950s, a small group of scientists, engineers, businessmen, and government officials rewrote the book on airplane design and led the nation into outer space.

In an effort no less audacious than the creation of the atomic bomb, they designed, built, and operated the U-2 and supersonic SR-71 spy planes and Corona, the first reconnaissance satellites - machines that could collect more information about the Soviet Union's weapons in a day than an army of spies could assemble in a decade.".

"Their remarkable inventions and daring missions made possible arms control agreements with Moscow that helped keep the peace during the cold war, as well as the space-based reconnaissance, mapping, communications, and targeting systems used by America's armed forces in the Gulf War and most recently in Afghanistan. These hugely expensive machines also led to the neglect of more traditional means of intelligence gathering through human spies.".

"Philip Taubman follows this dramatic story from the White House to the CIA, from the Pentagon to Lockheed's Skunk Works in Burbank, from the secret U-2 test base in Nevada to the secret satellite assembly center in Palo Alto and other locations here and abroad. He reveals new information about the origins and evolution of the projects and how close they came to failing technically or falling victim to bureaucratic inertia and Washington's turf wars.".

"The incredibly sophisticated spies in the skies were remarkably successful in proving that the missile gap was a myth in protecting us from surprise Soviet attack. But in some ways, the failure to detect the planning for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, can also be attributed to these powerful machines as the government became increasingly dependent on spy satellites to the neglect of human agents and informants.

Now, as we wage a new and more vicious war against terrorism, we will need both machines in space and spies on the ground to fight back."--BOOK JACKET.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
464

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Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
January 1, 2005, Tantor Media
Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition
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Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
February 24, 2004, Simon & Schuster
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Cover of: Secret Empire
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
October 31, 2003, Tantor Media
Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition
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Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the Cia, And the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
June 30, 2003, Diane Pub Co
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Cover of: Secret Empire
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
March 4, 2003, Simon & Schuster
Hardcover in English
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Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
November 1, 2000, Tantor Media
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First Sentence

"HAL AUSTIN HAD always assumed that the first time he flew an American warplane into Russian airspace, Moscow and Leningrad would be burning, incinerated by an American nuclear attack."

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Library of Congress
UG763

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
464
Dimensions
8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
Weight
15 ounces

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OL7722337M
ISBN 10
0684857006
ISBN 13
9780684857008
Library Thing
547405
Goodreads
424576

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