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How the US Spied on Soviet Space Photo Transmissions
In 1994, the CIA approved the release of a SECRET 1964 Studies in Intelligence report titled “Snooping on Space Pictures”, which detailed the efforts of U.S. intelligence to intercept and analyze the pictures being captured and transmitted to Earth by Russian satellites.
Here at Top Secret Writers, we’ve covered a lot about the ultra-classified Top Secret U.S. project known as Project Corona – the U.S. effort to use its own space satellites to capture images of the Soviet Union, and get those images to Earth.
While the U.S. had a system of releasing “film canisters” from the satellites and then attempting to retrieve them via aircraft, the 1964 report reveals that by the mid-1960s the soviets had already perfected the remote control of cameras in space, and the transmission of “fair-quality pictures back to earth from lunar distances.”
A significant U.S. effort at that time was, “…the work of engineering analysis in ‘breaking out’ the pictures contained in the radio transmissions.”
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2012-08-10 11:24:34
Source: http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2012/08/how-the-us-spied-on-soviet-space-photo-transmissions/
