Research Catalog

Title

Aerial espionage : secret intelligence flights by East and West / Dick van der Aart ; translated by Sidney Woods.

Author

Aart, Dick van der.

Publication

New York : Arco/Prentice Hall Press, 1986, c1985.

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Description

167 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

A revealing book about the secret reconnaissance flights carried out by the Soviets and the West since the beginning of the Cold War.

Uniform Title

Spionage vanuit de lucht. English

Alternative Title

Spionage vanuit de lucht.

Subject

• Aerial reconnaissance
• Electronics in espionage
• Reconnaissance aircraft

Note

• Translation of: Spionage vanuit de lucht.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

High Above the Iron Curtain -- Canberras in the Air -- Strange Wings in the Stratosphere -- The Lockheed U-2, Triumph for the CIA -- Bears over the Sea, and Along the Coast -- Electronic Spies for the Fleet -- Blackbirds, Faster than a Bullet -- Pilotless Reconnaissance Aircraft -- Foxbat, Moscow's Super-spy -- RC-135, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing -- 'The Tokyo Express' Defies Japan -- The Baltic Spider's Web of Aerial Espionage -- The Black Knights from Iceland -- Aeroflot is also Spying -- Leeuwarden Goes Bear-hunting -- RAF versus the Red Star -- Diplomats with Hidden Cameras -- The Army is Listening Too -- Naval Secrets are not Safe at Sea -- With a View to Nicaragua -- TR-1 Looks Across the Border -- 'Stealth', an Invisible Spy in the Air.

ISBN

• 0671619527 :
• 0668066059 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^85018723^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library