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Penetrating the Iron Curtain : resolving the missile gap with technology
- Title
- Penetrating the Iron Curtain : resolving the missile gap with technology / Joan Bird & John Bird, editors.
- Publication
- [McLean, Va.] : Central Intelligence Agency, Historical Collections, [2011]
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- Description
- 56 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 28 cm +
- Summary
- "In the mid-1950s the US faced the first real challenge since World War II to its strategic superiority over any nation on earth. The attempt to collect intelligence on the Soviets began with an initial period of poor collection capabilities and consequent limited analysis. With few well-placed human sources inside the Soviet Union, it was only with the CIA's development of, what can only be called, timely technological wizardry--the U-2 aircraft and Corona Satellite reconnaissance program--that breakthroughs occurred in gaining valuable, game-changing intelligence. Coupled with the innovative use of aerial and satellite photography and other technical collection programs, the efforts began to produce solid, national intelligence."--https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/historical-collection-publications/index.html
- Alternative Title
- Resolving the missile gap with technology
- Subjects
- Arms race > United States > 20th century > Sources
- Intelligence service > United States > History > 20th century > Congresses
- Intelligence service > Technological innovations > United States > Congresses
- United States > Central Intelligence Agency > History > Sources
- Intelligence service > Technological innovations > United States > Sources
- Intelligence service > United States > History > 20th century > Sources
- Note
- Symposium held Sept. 26, 2011 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
- Cover title.
- DVD-ROM contains 189 declassified documents totaling more than 4,200 pages, newsreel footage, photographs, and PDF of the booklet.
- Shipping list no.: 2012-0109-P
- "Historical collections."
- "100-105679-10."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- All documents also available on the CIA website at www.cia.gov.
- System Details (note)
- System requirements for accompanying disc: computer with DVD-ROM drive, Adobe reader and Flash Player 9 or above.
- LCCN
- 2012398458
- OCLC
- ocn759608456
- 759608456
- SCSB-5691713
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries