Deep Black
Subtitle: Space Espionage and National Security
By: William E. Burrows.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: January 13, 1987
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 401
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Space surveillance -- United States; National security -- United States
First sentence: "I wouldn't want to be quoted on this," Lyndon Johnson told a small group of local government officials and educators in Nashville in march, 1967, "But we've spent thirty-five or forty billion dollars on the space program.  And if nothing else had come out of it except the knowledge we've gained from space photography, it would be worth ten times what the whole program has cost."
Description: Examines America's "black" space system of satellites that constitutes the nation's most expensive intelligence operation: space espionage.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [381]-390.
Includes index.
$19.95
Printing statement "23456789" [over] "First Edition".
16 unnumbered pages of black-and-white photographs between pages 166 and 167.