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050 00 $aUG763$b.T38 2003
082 00 $a327.1273/009/045$221
100 1 $aTaubman, Philip.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002160289
245 10 $aSecret empire :$bEisenhower, the CIA, and the hidden story of America's space espionage /$cPhilip Taubman.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axx, 441 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 403-419) and index.
505 0 $aReimagining reconnaissance, 1946-1954 -- A new spy plane takes flight, 1954-1956 -- Vaulting into space, 1956-1976.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aIn 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.".
520 8 $a"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.".
520 8 $a"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.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aNow, 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.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bCentral Intelligence Agency$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAerial reconnaissance, American$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSpace surveillance$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aU-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139223
650 0 $aCold War.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005637
852 00 $bglx$hUG763$i.T38 2003