A history of satellite reconnaissance
Subtitle: the Perry Gambit & Hexagon histories
By: Robert L. Perry
Contributors: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance (U.S.)
Series: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics; Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance Classics
Publisher: Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chantilly, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781937219031
Subjects: History; Aerial reconnaissance; Reconnaissance operations; Military readiness; Espionage; Space surveillance
Other titles: Perry Gambit history; Perry Hexagon history
Description: The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon imagery satellite systems in the 1960's to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from East European and Asian communist countries. The programs were declassified in September of 2011, after which  redacted documents and histories were released to the public, including the two contained in this volume. --Summarized from Preface.
Notes: Originally written in 1973.

"January 2012"

Shipping list: 2012-0165-P

Includes bibliographical references.